Give reasons for the following statements (4 – 5 lines)

1. Underwriting is not compulsory; despite this, a number of reputed companies for their public issue go in for at least partial underwriting

2. While the percentage allotment for non-retail investors in a book-built issue is the maximum, the % allotted to retail investors is the minimum

3. Any VCF wants to exercise exit option say after 5 years of funding

4. VCF does not do angel funding or incubation funding in India whereas this is being done regularly by them in foreign countries

5. A sharebroker is the only common service intermediary between the primary and secondary markets; his role is different. What are his roles in these two segments?

4. Consider each of the following activities separately, how much does it contribute to US GDP?

(a) Company X in the US bought steel from another US company, which costs $50,000. Company X used the steel to make cars, and sold them for $150,000 this year.

(b) Your kid mows the lawn for your neighbor, and your neighbor gives him $50 for his work.

(c) This year, you sold your house for $500,000, which was built 100 years ago. Your agent charges you $10,000 for the agent services.

(d) Your mom gave you $1,000 for your birthday. You put $500 in your savings account.

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Write a program that asks for three numbers. Check first to see that all numbers are different. If they’re not different, then exit the program. Otherwise, display the largest number of the three.

Outputs:

- Enter the first number: 4

- Enter the second number: 78

- Enter the third number: 8

(The largest number is 78.)

Tasks

- Complete the algorithm manually without using any built-in functions to find the largest number on list.

- Revise the program so that all entered values are tracked and the user is prevented from entering a number that’s already been entered.

- Revise the program so that it asks for ten numbers instead of three.

- Revise the program so that it asks for an unlimited number of numbers.

You are considering constructing a new plant in a remote wilderness area to process the ore from a planned mining operation. You anticipate that the plant will take a year to build and cost $ 96 million upfront. Once​ built, it will generate cash flows of $ 16 million at the end of every year over the life of the plant. The plant will be useless 20 years after its completion once the mine runs out of ore. At that point you expect to pay $ 224 million to shut the plant down and restore the area to its pristine state. Using a cost of capital of 11 %​: a. What is the NPV of the​ project? b. Is using the IRR rule reliable for this​ project? Explain. c. What are the IRRs of this​ project?

Applying statistical analysis skills to real-world decision making is key in modern business and it can make a company to be ahead competitively. Even in today’s workplace, you can have an immediate competitive edge over other new employees, and even those with more experience, by applying statistical analysis skills. Chose any company that you have observed that it is not utilizing its data as your case study. Do some background research on the company? Write an essay (report) outlining some statistical data analysis that the company can use in its decision making. Relate how data analysis can be attained by using built-in R-programming packages or functions.

This is an exercise on basic python grammar.

Instructions

Assume there are 10 teams in a competition. Their names are "team1", "team2" .. "team10".

Write a function to generate their order of performance randomly.

Submit your code in Jupyter notebook format (.ipynb) on Canvas

Hint

1. Use a list to save all the team names
2. Define a function called order()  
3. Use built-in module random to generate a random index within the list
4. Remove the item from the current list and add it to a new empty list
5. Repeat this until the old list is empty (length of the list becomes 0)

Note: You may certainly use another data structure or another algorithm without following the above suggested steps.

Write a function to solve a system of linear equations of the form Ax= b using the iterative Gauss-Seidel method. You are free to use any basic MATLAB operation to implement the algorithm (i.e. you may use any combination of loops, indexing, math, etc.), but avoid “built-in” solution methods — you would not be allowed to use the GaussSeidel function if such a function existed. The function must also test for a number of possible issues. If an issue is encountered, you should use the error() command to issue a reasonable error message. Use distinct error messages for each of the following cases: • If the dimensions of the input matrices do not conform with each other • If the matrix of coefficients is not square

Implement function get_contact(contacts, name) that returns a string. The contacts and the name parameter are both type string. This function checks for the name string in the contacts string and returns that person’s contact information. If the person is not found, the function returns, “name not in contact”. Assume input is always valid. Assume the same name is not repeated in contacts.

[You may use split(), range(), len() ONLY and no other built-in function or method]

Examples:

              contacts = “Frank 703-222-2222 Sue 703-111-1111 Jane 703-333-3333”

              name = “Sue”

              print(get_contact(contacts, name))

              returns:

              703-111-1111

              name = “Sam”

print(get_contact(contacts, name))

              returns:

              name not in contact

Python Practice Sample:  

Write code to replace every occurrence of THE or the with ### and every word ending with the letter s to end with a $. Print the resulting text four words per line (and any remaining words from each paragraph on the last one of each paragraph)

"The modern business world goes way beyond the balance sheet. Whether your passion is finance or fashion, economics or the environment, you need an education built for business. At Bentley, we understand this. Sure, we started as an accounting school. But over the past 100 years, the business world has changed and we have too. Today, your classmates are dreaming of Silicon Valley or Washington D.C., just as often as Wall Street"

C++: Write a reverse function that receives a reference to a integer linked list and reverses the order of all the elements in it. For example, if the input linked list is 1 -> 4-> 2-> 3-> 6-> 5}, after processing by this function, the linked list should become 5-> 6-> 3-> 2-> 4-> 1. You need to write a main file to insert elements into the linked list and call the reverseLinkedList() function which takes the reference of first node of linked list and returns the reference of first node, after reversing the linked list. [User Input is not necessary]. Note: Do not use built in library function for linked list. You need to define your own linked list.