YOUR Firm, Inc. expects to sell 200,000 units next year, generating total sales of

$ 17,000,000. Management predicts that profit will be $ 1,250,000 and the contribution margin will be $ 25 per unit.

1. What is the total expected variable costs?
2. What is next year’s expected fixed costs?
3. Compute the expected margin of safety in both units and sales dollars?

Explain the following : Factors driving adoption of intelligent actions within the IoT

• Lower machine prices

• Improved machine functionality

• Machines “influencing” human actions through behavioral-science rationale

• Deep Learning tools

2. Explain the following : Challenges facing the adoption of intelligent actions within IoT

• Machines’ actions in unpredictable situations

• Information security and privacy

• Machine interoperability

• Mean-reverting human behaviors

Q5. A garage requires 100 tires daily with standard deviation of 30 units. Inventories are reviewed and orders are placed daily. lead time for order is 1 day. The holding cost per day is $0.05. The garage wishes to operate with 0.9987 in-stock probability. How many tires are on order ? on hand ?

An established financial company is about to launch their new banking application. Give 5 reasons why the company should use their own data centre rather than cloud computing.

Air at T₁ = 32°C, p₁ = 1 bar, 50% relative humidity enters an insulated chamber operating at steady state with a mass flow rate of 3 kg/min and mixes with a saturated moist air stream entering at T₂ = 7°C, p₂ = 1 bar. A single mixed stream exits at T₃ = 17°C, p₃ = 1 bar. Neglect kinetic and potential energy effects

A) Determine mass flow rate of the moist air entering at state 2, in kg/min. (Answer was 4.5 kg/min)

B) Determine the relative humidity of the exiting stream. (Answer was 79.6%)

C) Determine the rate of entropy production, in kJ/min.K.

Need part C. Thank you

Given trap spacings among two lobster fishing crews: BT cooperative has spacings = {93, 99, 105, 94, 82, 70, 86} PA cooperative has spacings = {118, 94, 106, 72, 90, 66, 153, 98}

a) Set up null and alternative hypotheses for testing the equality of variances

b) Find the sample variances for the two cooperatives.

c) Compute the test statistic.

d) Find the approximate p-value of the test.

e) Make a conclusion if ? = .01.

[In your opinion], are decision-makers rational (in your answer, give a quick definition of rationality, not the long one]? Give 3 supporting historical examples that align with the quick definition of rationality.

The answer should be about 4 well-written sentences.

Describe the steps which you would take on AWS and the decisions that would need to be made to create, configure and run a Virtual Machine Instance

What is a warranty? What warranties are required by the UCC?

• List all the elements of the Datapath.   
• Define or explain the role and nuances of any five elements of your choice.  

A battery manufacturer tests its newly developed EV battery by constructing a mean chart for controlling the service life of a fully charged battery. The company knows from previous samples that when the service life is in control it is normally distributed with a mean of 500 hours and a standard deviation of 10 hours. On three recent production batches, the firm tested service life on random samples of four batteries, with these results: Sample Service Life (hours) 1 495 500 505 500 2 525 515 505 515 3 494 485 506 499 What is the mean of the sampling distribution of sample means when the service life is in control? 500 What is the sample mean service life for sample 3? 496 What is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of sample means for whenever service life is in control? 5 If he uses upper and lower control limits of 505 and 495 hours, what is his risk (alpha) of concluding that service life is out of control when it is actually under control (Type I error Normal table.pdf )? 1 (Provide your answer in 0.**** format) If he uses upper and lower control limits of 505 and 495 hours, on what sample(s) (if any) does service life appear to be out of control?

What changes occur in adolescents in regard to self-concept and self-esteem? Who, in your opinion, has more of an impact on adolescents in regard to self-concept and self-esteem caregivers or peers? Support your response.

A panel of three high school teachers at Rippowam High School had been convened by the principal to make a most important decision. A local company was willing to award a $10,000 college scholarship to "the most outstanding senior" in the class, with the recipient to be determined by the high school. Walter Plant, Sandra Meltzer, and Jerry Driscoll were given the assignment to select the scholarship recipient. They agreed to meet at 2:30 to discuss their assignment. Driscoll opened the meeting: "I wish we had more to go on than what they gave us. A student can be 'outstanding' in many ways." "Well, I assume grades are the most important factor," said Meltzer. "Why don't we start out with the ranking of all students based upon their grade-point averages. I'd be hard pressed to award $10,000 to any student other than the class valedictorian." "I don't think it’s that easy," continued Plant. "I am far more impressed with a student who gets a B+ in honors physics than someone who gets an A in basketweaving. While a student's grade point average is certainly a good measure of their academic accomplishments, it's tainted by the difficulty of the courses taken." "That's not the only problem with the grade point average," Driscoll warned. "I've got some students in my homeroom who will graduate with the minimum number of hours, and I've got some others who branched out and took more than the minimum. I think we should give some consideration to the total number of hours taken in the curriculum." A deep frown appeared on Plant's face. "I don't see why we should penalize the student who did only what was required by the school. We specify what is needed for graduation, and the students have to comply. While I never encourage a student to stick to the minimum, I don't think we should devalue their performance for having done so." "Maybe we're getting too hung up with grades and hours," said Meltzer. “Suzanne Millord won first prize in the regional science fair competition. Shouldn't something like that count too? I'm more impressed with that than an A in any class." "You know," Plant commented, "we are forgetting about some other things too. How about civic activities, such as participation in student government or interest clubs? We encourage student involvement in these activities to make for a more well-rounded education. I don't feel we should ignore them when it comes time to make an award." "I feel those activities have their own rewards," said Driscoll. "We want to give this scholarship to the best student, not the most socially active one." "While we're at it," mused Plant, "how about athletic participation? We also stress physical education as well as social and intellectual development. Maybe we should also include interscholastic athletics. We've got some outstanding athletes in this school, and who’s to say that 'most outstanding' can't be defined in terms of athletics?" "I hardly think this was designed to be an athletic scholarship," Meltzer grumbled. "If you want to make it more complicated, why not throw in financial need; $10,000 is a lot of money, and some families could use it more than others." Driscoll stared out the window. He knew it would be a long afternoon

Would the criteria for selecting the "most outstanding student" be more biased or less biased by the inclusion of financial need? Why?

If you had been invited to this meeting, what suggestions would you make to help the teachers reach a decision? Use your lecture notes to give suggestions to improve the process based on principles of I/O?

Compare an electro-magnetic relay system with an electronic logic or PLC system that controls a 3-ph contactor. Include appropriate commercial specifications, drawings, and their advantages/disadvantages in your explanation.