A. How effective was Amazon’s strategy to diversify via Amazon Go? Focus only on Amazon Go. More specifically, given the company’s resources and capabilities was diversification a risky strategy?

List and explain the mechanism of 5 types of corrosion found in reinforced concrete causes and significance in concrete.

4) You have decided to make swords to sell to rich, spoiled yuppies who like to dress up in archaic clothing.   The swords need to be realistic in mechanical properties and performance. Describe the mechanical properties of a sword blade and how these properties would be achieved. ?

Please explain in clear words. Thanks

Week 4 Assignment: What’s in a Number?

Directions: You are to write a C++ program that meets the instruction requirements below.

Deliverables:

• Your C++ source code file. (The file with the .CPP extension).No other files will be accepted.
• A screenshot of your program running.

Program Instructions:

To make telephone numbers easier to remember, some companies use letters to show their telephone number. For example, using letters, the telephone number 438-5626 can be shown as GET LOAN. In some cases, to make a telephone number meaningful, companies might use more than seven letters. For example, 225-5466 can be displayed as CALL HOME, which uses eight letters. Write a program that prompts the user to enter a telephone number expressed in letters and outputs the corresponding telephone number in digits. If the user enters more than seven letters, then process only the first seven letters. Also output the – (hyphen) after the third digit. Allow the user to use both uppercase and lowercase letters as well as spaces between words. Moreover, your program should process as many telephone numbers as the user wants.

Please check my grammar and sentence structure..and make sense. Thanks!

According to “Exploring Business” by Karen Collins, In choosing a location, managers must consider several factors which include location close to suppliers and customers to minimize shipping costs, location with enough numbers of skilled workers, locations where people can enjoy living, locations where costs for resources and expenses are low, locations with a favorable business climate. A location I would recommend would be Waikiki beach. Waikiki Beach is a legendary surfer’s paradise with mellow waves, fascinating surf culture and plenty of aloha spirit and it has the potential to see surf at any time during the year. In my opinion, I think demand is the most important for choosing a location. Waikiki beach is internationally known as the best place for vacation, so I can expect the high demand for a year.

Since the place is popular for surfing, many people who visit Waikiki beach would like to learn how to surf from specialized surfers and they look for someone who has knowledge about surfing. Because of this situation, there would be many people who are skilled and specialized surfers. In other words, it can be easy to get enough numbers of skilled workers for managers.

Also, it’s locations where they and their families will enjoy living. A few years ago, I visited Waikiki beach with my family. All members of my family told that it is the first time I have such a nice and clean environment. That means they are definitely able to release their stresses by nature and the place. Therefore, if the two surfers have a business in Waikiki beach, not only they can enjoy their business, they can overcome even if they have a hard time because of the beautiful place and nature.

Lastly, Waikiki beach requires less expenses in terms of labor. According to Mike Maciag, Hawaii average hourly wage is $19.24. it is cheaper than another location which is popular for the beach, California. California's average hourly wage is $19.67. I believe that since there is a high demand of skilled and specialized surfer who are looking for a job, the wage should decrease which is a benefit for owners.

Overall, I believe that they will succeed in their business in Waikiki beach with the three factors that I mentioned.

1. Answer one of the following questions about the statement of cash flows.

   b. What two methods are used to prepare it? Identify similarities and differences between them.

2. Identify and explain the adjustment from net income to obtain cash flows from operating activities using the indirect method for one of the following items.

   b. Nonoperating gains and losses.

How do the capital requirements vary by the stage a business is in its lifecycle? Which sources of funding are most appropriate for each stage? Explain your reasoning.

A journal article reports that 34% of fathers take no responsibility for child care. A group of fathers believes that this estimate is too high. In a random sample of 80 fathers, it was found that 23 of those father take no responsibility for child care. Is there significant evidence at the 1% significance level that less than 34% of father take no responsibility for child care?

How did Apple Inc. use the porter five forces model strategies? Use examples to clarify.

"Today, Electrolux is a world leading manufacturer of appliances, producing cookers and cook tops, ovens, refrigerators and freezers, dishwashers, washing machines, tumble dryers, room air conditioners and vacuum cleaners, both for home and professional use. In 2008, the group generated net sales of SEK 105 billion (approximately €10.5 billion) selling 40 million products in more than 150 countries and employing nearly 55,000 people. That implies a sales run-rate of two products purchased from Electrolux every second, every day of the year."

What if the market was a business-to-consumer one? Try to depict the main differences and effects on the operations strategy. (Electrolux)

Ayres Services acquired an asset for $88 million in 2021. The asset is depreciated for financial reporting purposes over four years on a straight-line basis (no residual value). For tax purposes the asset’s cost is depreciated by MACRS. The enacted tax rate is 25%. Amounts for pretax accounting income, depreciation, and taxable income in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 are as follows:

Required:
For December 31 of each year, determine (a) the cumulative temporary book-tax difference for the depreciable asset and (b) the balance to be reported in the deferred tax liability account.

Structuralism: what was this philosophy and what inspired it?

Reasons for the fall of behaviorism: findings from ethology, Chomsky’s new ideas about language. How did these go against the basic ideas of behaviorism?

Write C++ code according to this prompt:

void print10LeapYears() gets a Gregorian year and prints the first 10 leap years after (but not including) the year input. Nothing is printed if the year is invalid. The first Gregorian year was 1752. The program should prompt the user with "Enter year -->" and each leap year should be preceded by "Leap year is" ...

void print10LeapYears() {

// your code here

return;

}