A voltaic cell utilizes the following reaction and operates at 298 K. 3 Ce4+(aq) + Cr(s) 3 Ce3+(aq) + Cr3+(aq)

(a) What is the emf of this cell under standard conditions? V

(b) What is the emf of this cell when [Ce4+] = 2.0 M, [Ce3+] = 0.014 M, and [Cr3+] = 0.011 M? V

(c) What is the emf of the cell when [Ce4+] = 0.56 M, [Ce3+] = 0.82 M, and [Cr3+] = 1.3 M? V

The International Air Transport Association surveys business travelers to develop quality ratings for transatlantic gateway airports. The maximum possible rating is 10. Suppose a simple random sample of 50 business travelers is selected and each traveler is asked to provide a rating for the Miami International Airport. The ratings obtained from the sample of 50 business travelers follow.

Develop a 95% confidence interval estimate of the population mean rating for Miami (to 2 decimals).

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CTC is an on-line retailer of prescription drugs and health supplements. Vitamin-C represents a significant percentage of its sales. Demand for Vitamin-C is 12000 bottles per year. CTC incurs a fixed order placement, transportation, and receiving cost of $150 each time an order for Vitamin-C is placed with the manufacturer. CTC incurs a holding cost of 25 percent. The price charged by the manufacturer is $4/bottle. Each time CTC places an order, the manufacturer has to process, pack, and ship the order. The manufacturer has a line packing bottles at a steady rate and does not keep any inventory. The fixed cost of filling each order is $350 for manufacturer.

1. Under the non-collaborative environment, the above supply chain uses CTC’s EOQ policy. Please evaluate CTC’s annual ordering and holding costs and Manufacturer’s annual ordering cost and holding cost under the CTC’s EOQ policy. What is the total annual ordering and holding cost for this supply chain under this non-collaborative policy?

For this activity, you will write a persuasive three paragraph communication intended to convince a particular audience about a topic. Below is information on the topic. Beneath this information are directions on how to complete the assignment.

Now that you have background information on the topic, you are to:

1) Compose a three paragraph communication that convinces a particular audience to adopt flex time. Here are the audiences you can choose from:

a. A large, successful insurance company
b. A branch bank
c. A small catering service
d. A government agency

2) After you conclude the three paragraph communication, include a paragraph in which you characterize how you constructed the paragraph and why you did so in that way given the audience you selected.

For a variety of reasons, many individuals have a hard time with their memory. Discuss at least three ways that an individual can improve his/her memory and also at least three conditions that could prevent an individual from accurately retrieving items from his/her memory. Be sure to provide real-life examples to help demonstrate your understanding of these concepts.

In preparing its consolidated financial statements at December 31, 20X7, the following consolidation entries were included in the consolidation worksheet of Powder Corporation:

Powder owns 60 percent of Snow Corporation’s voting common stock. On January 1, 20X7, Snow sold Powder a building it had purchased for $635,000 on January 1, 20X1, and depreciated on a 20-year straight-line basis. Powder recorded depreciation for 20X7 using straight-line depreciation and the same useful life and residual value as Snow.

Required:
a. What amount did Powder pay Snow for the building?

b. What amount of accumulated depreciation did Snow report at January 1, 20X7, prior to the sale?

c. What annual depreciation expense did Snow record prior to the sale?

d. What expected residual value did Snow use in computing its annual depreciation expense?

e. What amount of depreciation expense did Powder record in 20X7?

f. If Snow reported net income of $80,000 for 20X7, what amount of income will be assigned to the noncontrolling interest in the consolidated income statement for 20X7?

g. If Snow reported net income of $61,000 for 20X8, what amount of income will be assigned to the noncontrolling interest in the consolidated income statement for 20X8?

Suppose I pour 13.5 mL of creamer into 159 mL of hot coffee. The creamer is at 43.4 deg F, and the coffee is at 188 deg F. What is the final temperature when the system reaches equilibrium, in deg F? Assume coffee and creamer have the same density and thermal properties of water.

A. What are key success factors in this industry of motorcycles?

B. What are the key risk patterns in the industry of motorcycles?

C. What are the key value chain elements in the industry of motorcycles?

D.What is life cycle of the industry of motorcycles?

The unique colors of the cashmere sweaters your firm makes result from heating undyed yarn in a kettle with a dye liquor. The pH (acidity) of the liquor is critical for regulating dye uptake and hence the final color. There are 5 kettles, all of which receive dye liquor from a common source. Past data show that pH varies according to a Normal distribution with μ = 4.69 and σ = 0.118. You use statistical process control to check the stability of the process. Twice each day, the pH of the liquor in each kettle is measured, giving a sample of size 5. The mean pH x is compared with "control limits" given by the 99.7 part of the 68−95−99.7 rule for normal distributions, namely

μ_x ± 3σ_x.

What are the numerical values of these control limits for x? (Round your answers to three decimal places.)

In five years, Kent Duncan will retire. He is exploring the possibility of opening a self-service car wash. The car wash could be managed in the free time he has available from his regular occupation, and it could be closed easily when he retires. After careful study, Mr. Duncan determined the following:

1. A building in which a car wash could be installed is available under a five-year lease at a cost of $5,600 per month.

2. Purchase and installation costs of equipment would total $320,000. In five years the equipment could be sold for about 6% of its original cost.

3. An investment of an additional $8,000 would be required to cover working capital needs for cleaning supplies, change funds, and so forth. After five years, this working capital would be released for investment elsewhere.

4. Both a wash and a vacuum service would be offered. Each customer would pay $1.30 for a wash and $.60 for access to a vacuum cleaner.

5. The only variable costs associated with the operation would be 7.5 cents per wash for water and 10 cents per use of the vacuum for electricity.

6. In addition to rent, monthly costs of operation would be: cleaning, $2,900; insurance, $155; and maintenance, $1,775.

7. Gross receipts from the wash would be about $2,990 per week. According to the experience of other car washes, 60% of the customers using the wash would also use the vacuum.

Mr. Duncan will not open the car wash unless it provides at least a 8% return.

Click here to view Exhibit 13B-1 and Exhibit 13B-2, to determine the appropriate discount factor(s) using tables.

Required:

1. Assuming that the car wash will be open 52 weeks a year, compute the expected annual net cash receipts from its operation.

2-a. Determine the net present value using the net present value method of investment analysis.

2-b. Would you advise Mr. Duncan to open the car wash?

1. you have four choices below. In which choice would true impossibility NOT apply?

a. A record company contracted with Eartha to produce a CD of traditional gospel choir songs; unfortunately, Ertha died before recording began.

b. Finnly contracted with a local juice company to supply 10,000 pounds of Valencia oranges, but a tornado tore through her orange grove, completely destroying it.

c. None of these are correct.

d. Reed agrees to purchase an expensive piece of jewelry for $25,000; a week later, he tells the jeweler that he simply does not have that kind of money.

2. In his Oceanside, California basement, Bruno makes Budda Blast, a synthetic form of marijuana.

He signs a contract with Soooper Smoooke Shooop, a California corporation, to deliver 1,000 cans of Budda Blast for $10,000.

Subsequently, but before the delivery date, the California legislature passes and implements a law that makes the sale of Budda Blast illegal.

Bruno's contract will be discharged because of __________.

a. None of the above

b. commercial impracticability

c true impossibility

d. frustration of purpose

What is meant by the term “petrodollar?” How does the petrodollar get circulated in the international financial markets? How does the circulation of the petrodollar contribute to Third World debt accumulation and economic performance?

• Briefly describe how you will evaluate Bank of America performance
• How is Bank of America doing financially? How do you know?
• Which financial statement do you think provides the best information for investors?

B&B Technologies is considering expanding its operations to include production and sales of high capacity storage devices. The assistant to the CFO has collected a lot of information which is described below. Unfortunately, some of the information may be of questionable relevance, but that is for you to decide. You have asked to present a net present value based analysis to help management decide on the desirability of getting into the storage device business.

The company owns a vacant building near its current manufacturing facility; this building could be used for the expansion, or it could be leased to an interested customer and generate a lease revenue of $250,000, starting this year. The firm could increase the lease charge by 5% every year. The company has some unused equipment that has a book value of $40,000 and a market value of $30,000. This equipment could either be sold or be modified to produce storage devices; the modification would cost $10,000. The old equipment and modification costs would be depreciated straight-line over five years. Producing storage devices would also require the purchase of new equipment costing $900,000. For purposes of depreciation, the new equipment would be in the 7-year MACRS class. This equipment would have a useful life of six years, at the end of which it would have a scrap value of 10% of the purchase price.

Producing storage devices would require an ongoing investment in working capital. Net working capital is expected to be 10% of expected sales for the coming year and would vary with sales, but remain at 10% of expected sales for the coming year. All working capital would be recovered at the end of the six-year life of the investment. The production facility is expected to generate sales revenues of $1,000,000 in the first year; sales are expected to increase at 10% p.a. for three years and then decline by 5% p.a. over the last two years of the project. Operating costs are expected to be 40% of sales. The firm’s effective tax rate of 20% is expected to remain unchanged over the planning period, and the appropriate required rate of return for this investment is 8%.

Tasks:

1. Estimate the net present value and the internal rate of return for this investment.

2. Now suppose the following changes occur: (i) Sales in the first year turn out to be $900,000, (ii) the CGS to sales ratio is 45%, (iii) the NWC to sales ratio is 15%, (iv) the scrap value of the new equipment in year 6 is 5% of the original cost, and (v) the required rate of return is 10%. What is the net present value and the internal rate of return with all of the above changes? Should B&B Technologies get into the storage device business?