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?

What does Aristotle mean by the idea of "aiming at the mean?" Be detailed.

1. Workers in the manufacturing floor are being replaced by robots and other machines. On one hand, this lets companies compete with cheap labor from other countries. On the other hand, automation eliminates many jobs. Are you concerned that automation may increase unemployment or underemployment in the United States and around the world?

2. If a company provides employer-paid child care services to workers with children, should those who don't have children or don't need child care be compensated any other way?

3. What advantages do compensation plans such as profit sharing and employee stock ownership offer an organization? What are the benefits and challenges of flextime, tele-commuting, and job sharing?

Let’s say that Major League Baseball has decided to put an expansion franchise in Portland, Oregon. Considering what you now know about branding, what would be a good nickname for that team? Why would that be a good nickname? Explain your choice using branding principles.

Write a post for the Discussion Question on Louis Vuitton, addressing the questions below. Unless otherwise specified, each part should be 1–2 paragraphs or several bullet points in length.

Part 1: Competitive Advantages

List the competitive advantages of the product, service or organization you’re focusing on: the things that make it different from competitors in positive ways.

Part 2: Market Niche and Positioning Strategy

Describe the market niche you want to fill, along with the positioning strategy you recommend using. Why do you think this is the right approach?

Part 3: Positioning Statement

Develop a positioning statement using this formula: “To [target audience], [product/service/organization name] is the only [category or frame of reference] that [points of differentiation/benefits delivered] because [reasons to believe].^[1]

2H_{2(g) +}O_{2 (g)} <=> 2H₂O (g)

the above equilibrium experiences a sudden decrease in pressure. which one of the following will then occur?

1) dec in mole of h2

2) incr in mole of H20

3) incr in mole of 02

4) Total mole would decrease

The answer is 3). Can you explain why

You built your own 3D printer and intend to make a business of printing small parts for customers. After advertising your business on campus, you receive hundreds of emails within the span of a few days - all of which are fellow students asking for quotes on printing their parts. You go through all of the STL files, and record the approximate print time, material use and cost estimates for each as follows: Order 1: Order 2: Print Time: 43 minutes Print Time: 28 minutes Colour: Red Colour: Blue Material: 1.64 feet Material: 0.91 feet Cost: 3.80 $USD Cost: 2.11 $USD Order #: Print Time: ## minutes Colour: ... Material: #### feet Cost: #.## $ USD You've recorded each customer order as shown above and intend to start completing orders next week. Before hand, you want to know the total amount of time the printing will take, the total amount of material for each colour filament that you need to have on hand and the total material costs. Seeing as there are hundreds of orders on file you don't want to do these calculations manually, so you decide to use Python instead. In this assignment, you will be completing the function definition printing(orders), which has been started for you in the code template notebook. This function takes in a list of strings orders, where each element in the list is one line from the orders file, such as: orders = ["Order 1:\tPrint Time: 43 minutes\tColour: Red\tMaterial: 1.64 feet\tCost: 3.80 $USD", "Order 2:\tPrint Time: 28 minutes \tColour: Blue \tMaterial: 0.91 feet\tCost: 2.11 $USD"] You must complete the function definition to satisfy the following requirements: 1. The program computes the following 3 values: a. printTime = the total print time for all orders, stored in a list: [hours, minutes] b. matlused = the total material used for all orders, stored in a list based on filament color: [Red_matlused, Blue_matlused, Yellow_matlused, White_matlused, Black_matlused). Since your filament provider is based out of Canada, you need to provide this measurement in metres (1 metre = 3.28 feet). c. matlCost = the total material cost in $CAD (1 $USD = 1.42 $CAD). d. profit = your estimated profit if you charge 0.25 SCAD/minute of printing and only account for the material cost in your expenses (profit = revenue - expenses). 2. The program returns print Time, matlused, matlCost, and profit as output (done for you in the code given). 3. Your name, Maced, and the date are given in comments in the first Python cell. 4. Your answers to the design questions and test plan are given in the appropriate cells in the Python notebook. 5. Your program MUST have valid Python syntax and it must run without errors. Ensure that your
# Date: In [ ]: ######################################-- printing(orders) ###################################### def printing (orders): # Modify/add to the code between here... printTime = [] matlused = [0,0,0,0,0] matlCost = 0 profit = 0 #... and here return printTime, matlused, matlcost, profit ##########---TEST YOUR CODE---#################### # Change the values of orderTest to test with different values orderTest = ["order 1:\tPrint Time: 43 minutes\tcolour: Red\tMaterial: 1.64 feet\tCost: 3.80 $USD", "Order 2: \tPrint Time: 28 minutes\tcolour: Blue\tMaterial: 0.91 feet\tCost: 2.11 $USD"] result = printing (orderTest) ############## print("printTime=" ', result[0]) print("matlused =", result[1]) print("matlCost , result[2]) print("profit=" ", result[3])