Which of the following is more effective: advertising or sales promotions? Which of the two is more tactical, and which is more strategic? Explain.

What is the global significance of Wall street or stock market in U.S and why is it important? Also, what are global implications if say the market were to crash or go down? Give a thorough explanation please..

Empire Building Co. makes toxic material used in chemical weapons. On December 31, 2008 they buy a factory for $5 million(cash) for the production of Policus, a dangerous chemical. The plant is expected to be used for 10 years, at which time it will be dismantled and the site will be cleaned up. Empire estimates that it will cost them $10 million at the end of 2018 to remove the factory and clean the area. The risk free rate on December 31, 2018 is 4% and the adjusted risk rate for the company is 8%.

a) Record the journal entry(ies) for the purchase of the factory.

b) Record the required adjusting entry(ies) at the end of 2009.

c) On December 31, 2018 the factory is removed at a cost of 7$ million and site is cleaned up at for an additional $4 million . Record the required journal entry(ies) for the factory clean up.

(1 point) The song-length of tunes in the Big Hair playlist of a certain Statistics professors mp3-player vary from song to song. This variation can be modeled by the Normal distribution, with a mean song-length of μ=4.1 minutes and a standard deviation of σ=0.72. Note that a song that has a length of 4.5 minutes is a song that lasts for 4 minutes and 30 seconds.

While listening to a song, the professor decides to shuffle the playlist, which means the mp3-player is to randomly pick a song within this particular playlist, and play this next.

If using/working with z-values, use three decimals.

(a) What is the probability that the next song to be played is between 3.8 and 4.85 minutes long? Answer to four decimals.

(b) What proportion of all the songs in this playlist are longer than 5 minutes? Use four decimals in your answer.

(c) 10% of all the songs in this playlist are at most how long, in minutes? Enter your answer to two decimals, and keep your answer consistent with how the song length has been expressed in this problem.

(d) There are 233 songs in the Big Hair playlist. How many of these would you expect to be longer than 5 minutes in length? Use two decimals in your answer.

(e) From the time he set his mp3-player to shuffle, there has been 16 songs randomly chosen and played in succession. What is the chance that the 16-th song played is the 8-th to be longer than 4.1 minutes? Enter your answer to four decimals.

*If you would like you can use RStudio Statistical Software*

Purpose: To write an application using the list data structure that sorts objects in ascending order.

Details:

Create a class called Rectangle containing the following:

• Two instance variables,
  • An instance variable of type double used to hold the rectangle’s width.
  • An instance variable of type double used to hold the rectangle’s height.
• Provide a constructor with two parameters used to initializes each instance variable. The constructor should verify that the specified width and height values are greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 20.0. If they are not, indicate an exception has occurred.
• Provide get methods that return the values of each instance variables.
• Provide set methods that set the instance variables to new values. The methods should also verify that the specified width and height values are greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 20.0. If they are not, indicate an exception has occurred.
• Provide a method called calculatePerimeter that calculates the perimeter of the rectangle and return that value as a double.
• Provide a method called calculateArea that calculates the area of the rectangle and returns that value as a double.

Create a second class called RectangleTest that contains the main method, and thoroughly tests the Rectangle class’s methods. This test class does not need to ask users for input. Just create the needed Rectangle objects to ensure that you test the Rectangle class’s methods well. The thoroughness of your testing is important.

***Throw an IllegalArgumentException indicating there is a problem with the input parameters in the constructor and the set methods.Also, rewrite the RectangleTest class from Chapter 8 to handle the exceptions thrown by the Rectangle class. Thoroughly tests the Rectangle class’s methods. This test class does not need to ask users for input. Just create the needed Rectangle objects to ensure that you test the Rectangle class’s methods well. The thoroughness of your testing in will impact your grade.***8

Then---create a second class called RectangleComparator that implements the Comparator interface to compares two Rectangle objects according to area.

Create a third class called RectangleSortTest that contains the main method. The method should create a List containing five Rectangle objects, not in order by area. The method should print the list, displaying each rectangle’s area. Then sort the list, and print the list again showing the list has been sorted by area. This test class does not need to ask users for input, nor does it need to do any additional error checking.

Advanced Products Corporation has supplied the following data from its activity-based costing system:

During the year, Advanced Products completed one order for a new customer, Shenzhen Enterprises. This customer did not order any other products during the year. Data concerning that order follow:

Required:

1. Prepare a report showing the first-stage allocations of overhead costs to the activity cost pools.

2. Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.

3. Calculate the total overhead costs for the order from Shenzhen Enterprises including customer support costs.

4. Calculate the customer margin for Shenzhen Enterprises.

A dairy scientist is testing a new feed additive. She chooses 13 cows at random from a large population. She randomly assigns nold = 8 to the old diet and nnew = 5 to a new diet including the additive. The cows are housed in 13 widely separated pens. After two weeks, she milks each cow and records the milk produced in pounds: Old Diet: 43, 51, 44, 47, 38, 46, 40, 35 New Diet: 47, 75, 85, 100, 58 Let μnew and μold be the population mean milk productions for the new and old diets, respectively. She wishes to test H0 : μnew − μold = 0 against HA : μnew − μold ̸= 0 using α = 0.05.(a) Graph the data as you see fit. Why did you choose the graph(s) that you did and what does it (do they) tell you?(b) Perform the hypothesis test assuming equal population variance. Compute the p-value and make a reject or not reject decision. State your conclusion in the context of the problem. (c) Repeat the previous part, but without the equal variance assumption. (d) Compare the results from part b and c. Which test do you trust more and why? I have answers for (a) and (b) with p-value 0.035 which rejects null hypothesis. Can you help with (c) and (d)? Thank you!

You are managing a traditional/waterfall project. Your team defined the project metrics, which are on-time, within budget and meeting requirements. The project is continuing and you are doing quite well; remaining on-time, within budget, and meeting requirements. The project is two weeks away from completion and the end product just failed its first quality inspection. Explain how metrics, baselining, and measurements could have helped avoid this from occurring.

-The demand for low-priced goods is relatively _________, and the demand for high priced goods is relatively __________.

-The more time you have to adjust to a price change, the _________ (more/less) elastic is your response, because time allows consumers to seek out available substitutes.

-For elastic, an increase in price leads to ________ in total revenue, and decrease in price leads to _______ in total revenue.

-For inelastic, increase in price leads to _______ in total revenue, and decrease in price leads to _____ in total revenue.

-For unitary elastic, increase in price leads to _______ in total revenue, and decrease in price leads to _____ in total revenue.

-Consider the market for bicycles. If a dealer cuts price by 20 percent and sells 10 percent more bikes, then demand for bicycles is:

A. Inelastic, and total revenue will increase.

B. Elastic, and total revenue will increase.

C. Inelastic, and total revenue will decrease.

D. Elastic, and total revenue will decrease.

- If popcorn sales declined 20% when the candy price dropped 10%, the cross-price elasticity of demand for popcorn = __________, a relatively elastic response.

If popcorn sales declined 20% when the movie admission price increased 10%, the cross-price elasticity of popcorn is _____, a relatively elastic response.

- When goods are substitutes, cross-price elasticity is _______. When goods are complements, cross-price elasticity is ______.

- Your income rises by 10%. You go to the movies more and buy 20% more popcorn. Income elasticity of demand for popcorn is ______.

-When a good is a normal good, income elasticity is ________. When a good is an inferior good, income elasticity is _______.

-Income elasticity of demand = 3.29 =>popcorn is an (a) ____ good b/c the income elasticity of demand is __________.

Question 1

The operations manager for Fine Foods Distribution has narrowed the search for a new facility to seven communities. Fixed costs (land, buildings and equipment) and variable costs (labour, materials etc) are shown below.

1. Which of the communities can be eliminated from further consideration because they are dominated (both variable and fixed costs are higher) by another community?
2. Plot the total cost curves for all remaining communities on a single graph. Identify on the graph the approximate range over which each community provides the lowest cost.
3. Using locational break-even analysis, calculate the break-even quantities to determine the range over which each community provides the lowest cost.

Citing two to four additional scholarly sources, explain how an instructor might improve student performance for a large class (75 students) and a small class (15 students) using facilitation method(s).

What are the areas of focus in Catton's analysis of the two generals? While both are drastically different, Catton observes some unifying qualities. What are they?

Q1) Create a program that do the following:

1. Asks the user to enter n marks for n students, read the marks and the names and store them in a double linked list.

2. Write a method to find the largest mark and print the name of the student having that mark

3. Write a method to print the content of the list (name, mark)

4. Write a method to search the list for a given mark and prints the result

6. Insert 2 new students to the list (print the list before and after the insertion)

7. Delete any students with the first letter "D" in his name, (print the list before and after the deletion)

Submit .java files only.

3) Based on your own experience and reading, identify and briefly discuss an example of an organization that has invested greatly in IT and yet has relatively little to show as a result. Identify and briefly discuss an organization where the opposite is true. To what do you attribute the difference?

6) What is meant by management expectations, and how can they affect the acceptance of new IT?