Pick one approach and explain why you chose it:

• Utilitarianism works best as our ethical theory.
• Kant works best as our ethical theory.
• Pluralism is the best approach since it allows us to use both theories.

Create a MIPS program that will "hard code an integer" (meaning declared in .data) and read in another integer, multiply them together, and print out the results.

Whitson Co. is looking for ways to shorten its cash conversion cycle. It has annual sales of $45,625,000, or $125,000 a day on a 365-day basis. The firm's cost of goods sold is 60% of sales. On average, the company has $7,500,000 in inventory, $5,750,000 in accounts receivable, and $2,750,000 in accounts payable. Its CFO has proposed new policies that would result in a 25% reduction in both average inventories and accounts receivable, and a 10% increase in average accounts payable. She also anticipates that these policies would reduce sales by 5%. What effect would these policies have on the company's cash conversion cycle?

Please Show Work

You are trying to decide on the best mode of transportation for your company. You want to balance the cost of faster transportation with holding more inventory. This is because the amount of inventory you must hold is a function of lead time.

It costs $15 per unit per year to hold a product in inventory. The forecasted demand for this product is 10,000 units per year. The total amount of inventory is made up of two types of inventory: safety stock and in-transit. Calculations for determining the average amount of inventory for each type are given below.

Safety Stock Cost = 2 x Average Demand during Lead Time * Holding Cost per Unit per Year

In-Transit Inventory Cost = Total Annual Demand x (Lead Time / 365) * Holding Cost per Unit per Year

Total Cost = Safety Stock Cost + In-Transit Inventory Cost + Transportation Cost

The following is data related to your transportation options.

1. Build a spreadsheet model that calculates the total cost of transportation for Air, Truck, and Rail transportation. Based on your total cost calculations, what mode of transportation would you recommend? What is the total cost of your recommendation?

2. How much would the cost per unit of the other two modes have to change in order to make you change your recommendation?

3. What would the lead time of Rail have to change to in order to make it the best option?

4. Use a one-way data table to show how the total cost of Air transportation changes as demand varies between 2,000 to 20,000 units. For what demand levels is it better to recommend Air transportation over your recommendation to Problem #1?

5. Create a two-way data table showing the total costs at varying levels of transportation cost per unit and lead time for Truck transportation. What does this tell you?
   

6. How does changing the holding cost affect your recommendation to Problem #1?

7. You run a regression and find that your demand actually appears to be related to lead time according to the following equation:

Demand = 10,700 – 100*Lead Time

Assume that you sell this item for $45. Calculate Total Profit for each of the modes of transportation. Does this affect your recommendation to Problem #1? How sensitive is this decision?

Suppose your firm is considering two mutually exclusive, required projects with the cash flows shown below. The required rate of return on projects of both of their risk class is 9 percent, and that the maximum allowable payback and discounted payback statistic for the projects are 2 and 3 years, respectively.

Use the discounted payback decision rule to evaluate these projects; which one(s) should it be accepted or rejected?

• accept both A and B

• accept A, reject B

• accept neither A nor B

• reject A, accept B

Describe Le Chatelier's principle and discuss how it can be used to understand the problem created when Flint changed their treated water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River.

Briefly argue why it is untrue to say that public-key encryption is more secure than conventional encryption.

What role do technology and timing play in realizing advantages from the data asset? Are advantages based on analytics and modeling potentially sustainable? Why or why not?

Part A:  The number of cars arriving at a self-service gasoline station during the last 50 hours of operation are as follows:

The following random numbers have been generated: 44, 30, 26, 09, 49, 13, 33, 89, 13, 37. Simulate 10 hours of arrivals at this station. What is the average number of arrivals during this period?

Part B:  The time between arrivals at a drive-through window of a fast-food restaurant follows the distribution given below. The service time distribution is also given in the table in the right column. Use the random numbers provided to simulate the activity of the first five arrivals. Assume that the window opens at 11:00 a.m. and the first arrival is after this, based on the first interarrival time generated.

Random numbers for arrivals: 14, 74, 27, 03

Random numbers for service times: 88, 32, 36, 24

What time does the fourth customer leave the system?

What is the optimum way to recruit qualified candidates for a small, medium and large organization? Each will probably be different and each should attempt to take into account the resources of the organization dedicated to recruitment.

C++ please

6.32 LAB: Exact change - functions

Write a program with total change amount as an integer input that outputs the change using the fewest coins, one coin type per line. The coin types are dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. Use singular and plural coin names as appropriate, like 1 penny vs. 2 pennies.

Ex: If the input is:

0 

or less, the output is:

no change

Ex: If the input is:

45

the output is:

1 quarter
2 dimes 

Your program must define and call the following function. Positions 0-4 of coinVals should contain the number of dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, respectively.
void ExactChange(int userTotal, vector<int>& coinVals)

Suppose your firm is considering two mutually exclusive, required projects with the cash flows shown below. The required rate of return on projects of both of their risk class is 9 percent, and that the maximum allowable payback and discounted payback statistic for the projects are 2 and 3 years, respectively.

Use the PI decision rule to evaluate these projects; accept the project with the higher PI value.

• accept both A and B

• accept A, reject B

• accept neither A nor B

• reject A, accept B

Suppose your firm is considering two mutually exclusive, required projects with the cash flows shown below. The required rate of return on projects of both of their risk class is 11 percent, and that the maximum allowable payback and discounted payback statistic for the projects are 2 and 3 years, respectively.

Use the payback decision rule to evaluate these projects; which one(s) should it be accepted or rejected?

• accept both A and B

• reject A, accept B

• accept A, reject B

• accept neither A nor B

1. Is a three to five day old embryo deserving of moral respect and protection?

2. If unwanted embryos in fertility clinics are going to be destroyed anyway, why not harvest their stem cells first and reap the potential benefits?

3. Should pro-life organizations such as Catholic health care institutions, participate in research on ESC lines if doing so would not entail the destruction of any more embryos?

4. If we don't use these unwanted embryos in fertility clinics for research, how do we respond to those patients, now suffering from diseases, who might have benefited from such research?