Discuss the primary conditions that foster the development of groupthink. Outline at least four symptoms of a group in which groupthink has taken hold.

Can anyone explain all the answers?

1. A roller coaster car is on a track that forms a circular loop in the vertical plane.  Roller coaster car is moving with constant speed. If the car is to just maintain contact with track at the top of the loop, what is the normal force acting on this car at the lowest point of track?
   1. mg
   2. 2mg
   3. 3mg
   4. 0
2. Bucket of water is rotated on the rope in vertical plane. If the length of a rope is increased twice, to prevent water from spilling on the top point of trajectory, how should we change the minimum speed of rotation?

1. We should increase speed twice
2. We should decrease speed twice.
3. We should increase speed 2^1/2times.
4. We should decrease speed 2^1/2 times.
5. We should not change speed at all.

3. A coin is sitting on the edge of rotating turntables. Compare two turntables, A and B. They have the same radius (it means coin sits at the same distance from a center), but different surfaces. We measure the maximum frequency of revolutions for which coin does not slide off the turntables. For turntable A this frequency as twice as big as for turntable B. We can conclude that coefficient of static friction between coin and turntable A is:

1. ½ of coefficient between coin and turntable B
2. the same as for turntable B
3. twice as big as coefficient between coin and turntable B
4. 2^1/2greater than one for turntable B.
5. 4 times greater than for turntable B

4. The gravitational force attractive force between two masses, is F. If the masses are moved to half of their initial distance, what is the gravitational attractive force?
   1. F/4
   2. F/2
   3. 2F
   4. 4F
5. Two massive objects are fixed in their positions. The third object of mass m is placed between these two at the point where gravitational force due to two massive objects is equal 0. The third object is displaced  slightly towards one of massive objects. The total gravitational force on the third object is now:

1. Zero
2. Directed in the direction which depends on which out of two massive objects has greater mass.
3. Directed in the direction of displacement of the third object
4. Directed in the direction opposite to displacement of the third object.
5. Directed perpendicular to displacement of the third object.

Beech Corporation is a merchandising company that is preparing a master budget for the third quarter of the calendar year. The company’s balance sheet as of June 30th is shown below:

1.

value:
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Required information

Beech’s managers have made the following additional assumptions and estimates:

1. Estimated sales for July, August, September, and October will be $400,000, $420,000, $410,000, and $430,000, respectively.

2. All sales are on credit and all credit sales are collected. Each month’s credit sales are collected 35% in the month of sale and 65% in the month following the sale. All of the accounts receivable at June 30 will be collected in July.

3. Each month’s ending inventory must equal 25% of the cost of next month’s sales. The cost of goods sold is 75% of sales. The company pays for 40% of its merchandise purchases in the month of the purchase and the remaining 60% in the month following the purchase. All of the accounts payable at June 30 will be paid in July.

4. Monthly selling and administrative expenses are always $56,000. Each month $8,000 of this total amount is depreciation expense and the remaining $48,000 relates to expenses that are paid in the month they are incurred.

5. The company does not plan to borrow money or pay or declare dividends during the quarter ended September 30. The company does not plan to issue any common stock or repurchase its own stock during the quarter ended September 30.

Required:

1. Prepare a schedule of expected cash collections for July, August, and September. Also compute total cash collections for the quarter ended September 30.

2-a. Prepare a merchandise purchases budget for July, August, and September. Also compute total merchandise purchases for the quarter ended September 30.

2-b. Prepare a schedule of expected cash disbursements for merchandise purchases for July, August, and September. Also compute total cash disbursements for merchandise purchases for the quarter ended September 30.

3. Prepare an income statement for the quarter ended September 30.

4. Prepare a balance sheet as of September 30.

Given the following data set N =9

12 3 78 89 22 31 5 20 14

a ) sort the data using: Insertion and Selection sorts

Determine thee number of comparisons and the number of moved for every sort.

b) Sort the data using Heap and bubble sort, show all steps

The lengths of a particular animal's pregnancies are approximately normally distributed, with mean μ equals=271

days and standard deviation σ equals=20days.

(a) What proportion of pregnancies lasts more than 286 days?

(Round to four decimal places as needed.)

(b) What proportion of pregnancies lasts between 256 and 281 days?

(Round to four decimal places as needed.)

(c) What is the probability that a randomly selected pregnancy lasts no more than 266 days?

(Round to four decimal places as needed.)

(d) A "very preterm" baby is one whose gestation period is less than 226 days. Are very preterm babies unusual?

(Round to four decimal places as needed.)

The probability of this event is _____ so it _____ be unusual because the probability is _______ than 0.05.

(Round to four decimal places as needed.)

Argue for and against the trait theory of leadership. give examples.

CarpetPlus sells and installs floor covering for commercial buildings. Brad Sweeney, a CarpetPlus account executive, was just awarded the contract for five jobs. Brad must now assign a CarpetPlus installation crew to each of the five jobs. Because the commission Brad will earn depends on the profit CarpetPlus makes, Brad would like to determine an assignment that will minimize total installation costs. Currently, five installation crews are available for assignment. Each crew is identified by a color code, which aids in tracking of job progress on a large white board. The following table shows the costs (in hundreds of dollars) for each crew to complete each of the five jobs:
   Job

   Crew    1 2 3 4 5

   Red 30 44 38    47 31

   White 25 32 45 44 25

Blue 23 40 37 39 29

   Green 26 38 37    45 28

Brown 26 34    44    43    28

a. Develop a network representation of the problem. b. Formulate and solve a linear programming model to determine the minimum cost assignment

I need EXCEL part in steps. Thank you.

As a business manager, you may encounter situations that require a wide variety of communication responses. For this assessment, you will be creating a portfolio of communication documents. Please appropriately format each communication for the message type.

Scenario 3:

You are a manager of a research company. Your research team has developed a transition package that allows a gas-powered engine to transition to running on biofuels. The availability and low cost of biofuels make the transition package a potential game changer in the automobile market. You have named the product Sparkit.

In addition to tests completed by your staff, you have partnered with a large automobile producer to ensure the transition package works with many different types of vehicles. The large automobile producer remains a partner in the product as a result of their involvement, and you anticipate that future vehicles from the producer may use the technology when initially built. With the producer's assistance, you anticipate 50% of cars currently on the road can potentially be retrofitted with your product. The producer has created a guide for your sales force to ensure that Sparkit is not sold to customers whose cars are not compatible with the product.

This is the first big product developed by your company. Your sales and service teams do not have current relationships with potential buyers. One potential risk is that purchasers may choose to install the transition package on their own rather than choose a knowledgeable automotive professional to install it. You anticipate there may be issues with installation as a result.

The success of Sparkit relies upon an external business partner, Autojor, who manufactures a filter critical to the proper operation of the transition package. As the result of a natural disaster, Autojor recently lost a manufacturing plant that was responsible for producing 25% of your inventory. You will need to work closely with this partner to ensure their manufacturing operation is able to continue supporting the just-in-time environment to meet sales demands. Your contact’s name at Autojor is Mateo Kalani.

You have received a customer complaint via the company’s social media page. The customer is extremely dissatisfied, and the complaint has negatively impacted the company’s image. The customer’s complaint is as follows: “I bought and installed Sparkit. It doesn’t work! The instructions do not match my engine’s layout, and now my car doesn’t work at all. This was supposed to save me money, but now my car won’t run. I’ll have to put more money into getting it fixed. This is ridiculous. I have told all my friends, and now I am telling the world—do not buy this product! If you do, you will regret it.”

Requirements Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide. You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course. Create a portfolio of communication documents based on one of the scenarios by doing the following:

Compose an informational email to external stakeholders (i.e., investors, shareholders) that discusses two distinct organizational and/or financial impacts the product will create.

Compose a persuasive letter to the business partner to discuss their challenges in meeting your production needs.

Evaluate the communication strategies and methods (i.e., email, letter, blog, and social media) used in items A–E by doing the following: Explain how the communication strategies support or do not support the desired outcomes and provide examples to support your conclusion. Explain how the four communication methods effectively or ineffectively serve the target audience and provide examples to support your conclusion.

Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

1. Apply Durkheim’s view of the functions of deviance to the emerging issue of cyberbullying. How does cyberbullying fulfill each of the functions of deviance that Durkheim discussed?

describe employees retention strategies essay style with work cited?

what are 3 counter arguments to the idea of religious experience?

Question1: Consider the below description of the class Box. 1. Create a class and call it Box. Box has the following methods & variables a. Variable for length, height, width & volume, b. setlength(int x ) method to set the length, c. setWidth (int y ) method to set the width, d. setHeight (int z ) method to set the height & e. displayCalculatedVolume( ) method that calculates the volume and displays it. (Hint: volume = length*width*height)

Scenario: Sam Smith was standing on a platform of B&O Railroad after buying a ticket to go to San Antonio Beach. A train stopped at the station, bound for another place. Two women ran forward to catch it. One of the women reached the platform of the car without incident, though the train was already moving. The other woman, carrying a package, jumped aboard the car but seemed unsteady as if about to fall. One of the guards on the car, who had held the door open, reached forward to help her in, and another guard on the platform pushed her from behind. In this act, the package was let go and fell onto the rails. The package was not big, and was within a plastic bag. The package, later, was determined to have fireworks within it. The fireworks when they fell exploded. The shock of the explosion threw down some scales at the other end of the platform, many feet away. The scales struck the plaintiff, causing injuries for which Sam Smith is suing.

• Identify the type of tort or crime to be charged
• If a tort, examine the elements needed to meet this tort and if all elements were met.
• Evaluate and Recommend which parties should be held liable for the injuries suffered, if anyone?

Starbucks does have optimistic status for their great company culture. Do you believe customers can sense a difference between company owned stores and franchisee/licensee institutions? That would not be great for business as whole, particularly when that culture has some impact on selling $5+ lattes.