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The following 2 mutually exclusive projects (Project A and Project B) are available to Nandu’s Farm. They are producers of Sugar Cane. The initial cash outlay and cash flows are shown below and Nandu’s will use straight line depreciation over each of the assets 4 year life and there will be no residual value on either investment. Project A Project B Initial outlay 235 000 80 000 Year/s Cash Flows (A) Cash Flows (B) 1 27 000 38 000 2 37 000 38 000 3 99 000 28 000 4 200 000 7 000 NB: • The Company requires a minimum accounting rate of return of 25% on all its investments • It rigidly applies a payback period of no more than 3.5 years. • Their after-tax cost of capital is 12%. • Applicable tax rate is 30%. 2.1 Which project is more lucrative if the payback rule is applied? (5) 2.2 Apply the Accounting Rate of Return (ARR) test. Which project is more viable? (8) 2.3 Determine which project is more lucrative if the NPV rule is applied. (8) 2.4 Which of the above projects will you recommend to Nandu’s. Explain in detail your choice of answer (by critically assessing each of the above calculations that you have made) (4)

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Reverse Mortgages are growing in popularity as a source of retirement income for Canadians. This is because they have a few unique financial advantages. Which of the following statements about reverse mortgages is FALSE?Taxes owing on monies received does not need to be paid until death, the sale of the home or the pre-determined date of repaymentMoney received from a reverse mortgage does not affect the homeowner's eligibility for Old Age Security or the Guaranteed Income Supplement Those who use a reverse mortgage will never have to pay back more than what the house is worthThe money received does not need to be paid back until death, the sale of the home or a pre-determined date

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If you multiply the number of shares of stock a firm has outstanding by the price of each share, you are calculating O the S&P 500 Index. O owner's equity for the firm. O the firm's market capitalization. O the firm's leverage ratio.

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Which of the following does Nozick claim is a legitimate way of transferring holdings from one person to another? She may give them as a form of charity. All of the above. The holdings are exchanged on the basis of an agreement. The holdings are transferred to one's spouse.

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Which inventions of the nineteenth century did NOT help increase and manage productivity? Typewriter Typewriter Lightbulb The double-horned plow.

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Increase in the costs of refining gasoline would shift the Group of answer choices: demand curve for gasoline shifts to the left demand curve for gasoline shifts to the right supply curve of gasoline shifts to the right supply curve of gasoline shifts to the left

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An amateur movie critic keeps track of the genre of each movie she reviews. The bar graph shows the number of movies of each genre she has reviewed so far this year. Number of movies 20- 18- 16- 14- 12- 10- 8- 6- 4- 2- 0 18 13 Consider statements $p$ and $q$. $p$: The movie critic reviewed fewer movies in the comedy genre than in the romance genre. $q$: The movie critic reviewed the greatest number of movies in the action genre. (a) Write the following statement in symbolic form using $p$ and $q$. The movie critic reviewed the greatest number of movies in the action genre, or the movie critic reviewed fewer movies in the comedy genre than in the romance genre. Symbolic form: $q \lor p$ $p$ $q$ $q \lor p$ Romance Drama Thriller Comedy Action Movie genre (b) Based on the information in the bar graph, complete the table to determine the truth of the statement from part (a). Use T for true and F for false. $p$ $q$ $q \lor p$ Your answer from part (a) will fill in here.

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3. During the lab cleaning, you find a vial of white powder without label and you would like to trash it. How do you do to dumb it safely? If you want to analyze a white ppowder, suggest the fastest method with short explanation? (5 pts)

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Exercises 15.1 A medical research team wishes to assess the usefulness of a certain symptom (call it S) in the diagnosis of a particular disease. In a random sample of 775 patients with the disease, 744 reported having the symptom. In an independent random sample of 1380 subjects without the disease, 21 reported that they had the symptom. (a) In the context of this exercise, what is a false positive? (b) What is a false negative? (c) Compute the sensitivity of the symptom. (d) Compute the specificity of the symptom. (e) Suppose it is known that the rate of the disease in the general population is .001. What is the predictive value positive of the symptom? (f) What is the predictive value negative of the symptom? (g) Find the predictive value positive and the predictive value negative for the symptom for the following hypothetical disease rates: .0001, .01, and .10. (h) What do you conclude about the predictive value of the symptom on the basis of the results obtained in part g?

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Two children pull a third child on a snow saucer sled exerting forces $F_1$ and $F_2$ as shown from above in the figure. $F_1 = 10\text{ N}$ $45^\circ$ $30^\circ$ $F_2 = 8\text{ N}$ f = 7.5\text{ N} Free-body diagram Find the acceleration (magnitude in m/s² and direction in degrees counterclockwise from the axis directed to the right) of the 9.00 kg sled. Note that the direction of the frictional force is unspecified; it will be in the opposite direction of the sum of $F_1$ and $F_2$. magnitude 11.095 $\times$ m/s² direction 88.19 $\times$ $\circ$ counterclockwise from the axis directed to the right

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