TOPICS INCLUDED:

1- Constants, Variables, and Types
2- Operators and Conditional Statements
3- Strings and Functions
4- Structures & Managing Structures
5- Classes, Objects, and Inheritance
6- Unit testing
7- Arrays and Dictionaries
8- Iterating through collections

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2

How much should you invest at 3.2% simple interest in order to earn $60 interest in 9 months?

How much should you invest at 3.2% simple interest in order to earn $60 interest in 9 months?

How much should you invest at 3.2% simple interest in order to earn $60 interest in 9 months?

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2

1. In your own words, what is the difference between market research and marketing research?

2. Write a problem/opportunity statement for City Compost.

3. Pick one direction from the Four P’s Marketing Mix that City Compost can take to move forward with their residential plan. Write a sentence elaborating on how City Compost can move forward in your chosen direction.

4. Write three to four possible decision points that City Compost could take to move forward in the direction you picked in Question 3. (Hint, one of them should be “Do nothing”).

5. Pick one of your decision points from Question 4. Write out a research question that would give City Compost the data they need to make that decision.

6. Pick one of your research questions from Question 5. Would you recommend that City Compost’s owner answer this research question using exploratory research, descriptive research, or causal research? Why?

7. Give an example of an action standard City Compost could apply to your research question in Question 5.

8. In your own words, what is the difference between exploratory and descriptive research?

The Perfect Knot is a yoga studio. Their owner has noticed an increased interest in Pilates lately and is considering adding Pilates classes to the studio’s weekly schedule, but she doesn’t know much about who takes Pilates classes and what types of Pilates she can offer.

9. Describe a way The Perfect Knot could use exploratory research to get background information on this decision point.

10. The Perfect Knot has settled on two decision points: offering mat Pilates or classic Pilates. The owner will give a descriptive survey to her clientele to see which type of Pilates fits best. Do you recommend she use a cross-sectional study or a longitudinal study? Why?

11. It’s five years later. The Perfect Knot has been running a classic Pilates class successfully. Would a cross-sectional study or a longitudinal study be better to monitor changes in enthusiasm for this class? Why?

Moar Guitars is an independent electric-guitar maker that sells most of its instruments online. They would like to update their website to increase online guitar sales, but don’t know what website changes would cause more online sales.

12. What is the dependent variable in this example of causal research?

13. Give an example of an independent variable on their website that Moar Guitars could test?

14. Imagine Moar Guitars is going to run an A/B test using the independent variable you listed in Question 12. Name one way their experimental design can control for extraneous variables.

15. Moar Guitars also would like to see consumer reaction to a new guitar model. Given their small, niche market share, would a standard test market or a controlled test market be appropriate for them to test the reaction to this new model? Why?

16. Name two things you might do in order to protect your survey participants from potential harm when conducting research.

17. You run a dishonest marketing research firm looking to take advantage of your clients. Explain one way you can be unethical and why it would be harmful to your client.

18. Name one advantage and one disadvantage of using secondary data instead of primary data.

19. Give an example of secondary research from your group project. Describe how would you make sure that source is credible?

You own a small comedy club and are looking for ways to increase your patronage. Your decision points are:

1.) Change up your mix of comedy acts

2.) Add more expensive drinks to your menu

3.) Redecorate the interior with a new theme

20. Give an example of how you could use indirect observational research from archives rather than direct observation to research changing up your mix of comedy acts.

21. Which one of these decision points would be best answered with an unstructured observation? Why would unstructured observation be effective for this decision?

22. Pick one of the comedy clubs three decision points and describe how either in situ observation or invented observation could be used to research it? Explain why either in situ or invented observation would be effective for your chosen decision point.

23. Pick one of the comedy club’s three decision points and describe how an interview would be effective for researching the decision.

24. What is an advantage of using a focus groups instead of an interview for your data collection?

25. If you had the time and resources to perform ethnographic research for your group project, how would the data you collect be richer than the survey or interviews you will perform? Please refer to details of your project when answering.

Intermediate accounting

DETAILED ASSIGNMENT

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1. Which of the following statements is correct regarding a main function of carbohydrates?
[A] They function to transmit and express genetic information.
[B] Carbohydrates can act as enzymes and catalyze important biological reactions.
[C] They function directly in the transportation of gases.
[D] They provide the raw material for building other biological macromolecules.
2. What is the approximate estimate of how long ago our planet formed?
[A] ~4.6 billion years ago
[B] ~2007 years ago
[C] ~4.6 million years ago
[D] ~3.5 billion years ago
3. In 1953 Stanley Miller and Harold Urey performed a famous experiment in which they
subjected a mixture of H2O, CH4, NH3, and H2 to an electric discharge for about 1 week.
These chemicals are believed to make up the atmosphere of prebiotic earth. Which of the
following were NOT among the compounds found in the resulting solution?
[A] simple nucleic acids
[B] simple acids
[C] simple amino-acids
[D] acetic acid
4. It is the year 2050. You are a space explorer and you’re about to leave on a deep space mission
to another solar system. Your boss tells you that you may only bring relatively simple
molecules that will be used to synthesize all your food. You know, from taking Dr. Love’s
class, which atoms are essential for your life. Which of the following sets of molecules
would provide the most complete set of atoms essential for life on our planet?
[A] ATP, sodium chloride, NH4Cl
[B] glucose, potassium phosphate, sodium chloride
[C] methane, acetyl coenzyme A (CoA), sodium chloride
[D] glucose, potassium phosphate, sodium chloride

DETAILED ASSIGNMENT

20200930184020practice_exam_1_pdf

Sold for carpets for a selling price of R945.50, as per invoice x41 to Mrs. M South (Cost of Sales, R645 each)

Enter the transaction into a debtors journal and post in the general and debtors ledger and show effects on the accounting equation

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2

1) The Ellerson Furniture Company must purchase a new polisher. The cash flows for the two
alternatives are presented below. Both alternatives have a 5 year useful life. If the company’s
MARR is 9%, which set-up should be used?
First Cost Annual operating cost
True Grit $6800 $1500
Smoothest $4700 $2000
Determine the EAC for each alternative. What is the savings associated with the preferred alternative?
(Problem Hint: This is similar to problem 9.4 in textbook where they give you an answer.)
2) Two designs for water towers are being considered with different exterior materials. Design A has a
useful life of 30 years and design B has a useful life of 20 years. The cash flows for each alternative
are presented below (dollars in thousands, K). If the company’s MARR is 10%, which design should
be selected to minimize costs?
First Cost Annual operating cost
Design A $2100 K $25 K
Design B $1800 K $40 K
Determine the EAC of each alternative and the present worth over the least common multiple of lives.
Which is the best alternative

DETAILED ASSIGNMENT

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1. Your accountant has provided you with the following table of salvage values for a certain type of apricot
squeezing machine, which you are considering for use in your Sour Apricot Sherbet Shop.
Year Salvage value
1 $22,000
2 21,000
3 20,000
4 16,000
5 10,000
Calculate the economic life (years) of this piece of equipment. The first cost is $25,000 and MARR is 12%.
Hint: EAC for five year life is $5361.
2. A construction equipment for Tech Builders Inc has a first cost of $25,000 and the following salvage
values and annual operating costs:
t S (t) Op. cost (t)
1 $22,000 $10,000
2 21,500 10,500
3 20,000 11,000
4 19,500 11,500
5 10,000 12,000
6 0 12,500
Use a MARR of 10% and determine the EAC of keeping the equipment for all possible years and
determine the optimal economic life of the equipment.

3. Packaging problem
a. A packaging machine that has been used for 2 years has a salvage value of $12,000 now which will
drop by $2000 per year. Over the next 5 years, the maintenance costs for the machine are expected
to be $2500, $2900, $3500, 4500, and 4500. If the MARR is 8%, determine the marginal cost to
extend service for each of the next 5 years.
Hint: MC2 = $5700
b. A replacement piece of equipment can be purchased for the machine above at a first cost of
$25,000. Annual maintenance costs the first year are expected to be $1000 and increase by $300
each year. If this equipment were to be sold after 1 year, income of 20,000 could be realized. Each
year the machine is kept, the salvage value would decrease by $3500. What is the optimal
economic life and associated EAC of this equipment?
Hint: EAC3=$6981
c. Should the new equipment be purchased now? Why?

DETAILED ASSIGNMENT

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Question 1: 15 marks:

Kholoud owns AlBaha Laundry in Jubail. She has decided to add a new service to her customer by washing rugs. The annual fixed cost of washing the rugs is 60,000 SAR and the variable cost for cleaning each rug is 8 SAR. She will be charging her customers 15 SAR for each rug and has an anticipated demand of 7500 rugs annually.

1. What is the break-even? (3 marks)

2. What will be the profit – loss at the anticipated demand of 7500 rugs? (2 marks)

3. It is anticipated after a few month’s her demand will increase to 10000 rugs. How much will be her new profit-loss? (2 marks)

4. If she is wants to reach the BEP at an anticipated demand of 7500 rugs, what must be the price that she must charge for each item? (2 marks)

5. Kholoud wants to charge a price of 18 SAR/rug, as she feels that if she charges high she may lose her customer. What is your recommendation? (2 marks)

6. Refer to questions (a) draw the graph for breakeven. (4 marks)

Question 2: 20 marks:

The Atlanta Confectionary produces two kinds of ice cream — Vanila and Chocolate. The ice cream is produced from 105 tons of condensed sweetened milk for this season. A batch of Vanila requires 3 tons of condensed sweetened milk, and a batch of Chocolate requires 5 tons. However, the total available production time is 180 hours. The processing time for a batch of Vanila is 6 hours, and the processing time for a batch of Chocolate is 5 hours. The amount of Vanila essence used to produce a batch of Vanila ice cream is 0.5 tons and availability of essence is 10 tons; while availability of Coco powder for chocolate ice cream is 15 tons and consumes 0.8 tons for a batch. The profit for a batch of Vanila is 6000 SAR, and the profit for a batch of Chocolate is 9000 SAR. The company wants to determine the number of batches of Vanila and Chocolate to produce in order to maximize profit. (Note: Solve using 2 decimal places)

1. Formulate a linear programming model for this problem. (4 marks)

2. Solve this model by using graphical analysis. (4 marks)

3. Identify the feasible region. (1 mark)

4. Find the extreme points and optimal solution (5 marks)

5. What is the standard form of the linear programming model? (2 marks)

6. How much of slack resource will be left unused at the optimal solution? (2 marks)

7. What are the binding, non-binding and redundant constraints? (1 mark)

8. What would be the effect on the optimal solution, if the profit for a batch of Vanila is $6500? (1 mark)

Question 3: 15 marks:

Consider the following linear program: (Note: Solve using 2 decimal places)

Max     5X + 8Y

s.t.       3X + 2Y ≤ 200

            1X – 1Y ≥ 10

            3X + 2Y ≥ 45

            X, Y ≥ 0

1. Use the graphical solution procedure to find the optimal solution. (4 Marks)

2. Conduct a sensitivity analysis to determine the range of optimality for the objective function coefficients X & Y.(5 marks)

3. What are the binding constraints? (1 mark)

4. If the right-hand-side of the binding constraints are marginally increased, what will be the Dual Value? (5 marks)

DETAILED ASSIGNMENT

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1. A bank’s estimate of next year profit (as a percentage of assets) is a normal distribution with mean and standard deviation of 1% and 2%, respectively. How much equity (as a percentage of assets) does the company need to be

(a) 95% sure that it will have a positive equity at the end of the year

(b) 99% sure that it will have a positive equity at the end of the year

(b) 99.9% sure that it will have a positive equity at the end of the year

(d) Assume the bank’s capital is 4% of assets. How much equity capital in addition to that should regulators require for there to be a 99.95% chance of the capital not being wiped out by losses?

1. In a defined benefit pension plan for public employees of Illinois:

(a) Employees work for 30 years earning wages that increase at a real rate of 1.5% per year.

(b) They retire with a pension equal to 70% of their final salary. This pension decreases at the real of rate of 1% per year.

(c) The pension is received for 20 years.

(d) The pension fund assets earn a real rate of 3%.

Find the percentage of an employee’s salary that must be contributed to the pension plan if it is to remain solvent.

1. A financial institution has the following portfolio of options a stock:

An option is available with a delta of 0.5, a gamma of 2, and a vega of 1.5.

(a) What position in the traded option and in the stock would make the portfolio both gamma neutral and delta neutral?

(b) What position in the traded option and in the stock would make the portfolio both vega neutral and delta neutral?

(c) Another option with a delta of 0.2, a gamma of 0.5, and a vega of 1 is available. How could the portfolio become delta, gamma, and vega neutral?

1. The bidders in a Dutch auction are as follows:

The number of shares being auctioned is 250,000. What is the price paid by investors? How many shares does each investor receive?

1. A fund of funds invests across many hedge funds with an expected return of 7% before fees in a particular year. Hedge funds charge 2% 20% for management and incentives fee, respectively. Fund of fund investors require an expected return of 3%. What type of fee structure (incentive fees and management fees) for the fund of fund delivers an expected return of 3%? Plot a graph (incentive fees as a function of management fees) that displays the plausible combinations.

1. An oil-linked bond issue works as follows. The holder receives no interest. At maturity, the company pays $1,000 plus a premium based on the price of oil at that time. The premium is the product of 100 and the lack (if any) of the price of a barrel of oil at maturity under $60. The premium is capped at $2,000. Plot the bond’s payoff as a function of price of oil. Decompose the payoff of this bond using a combination of long and short positions in a simple bond and options.

1. A company’s investments earn LIBOR minus 0.5%. Show how it can use the quotes in the following Table to convert the investments into 1 through 10-year fixed-rate investments.

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2