MT445Assignment-Unit3

1.      Explain the relationship between the price elasticity of demand and total revenue.

2.      2. Is the price elasticity of gasoline more elastic over a shorter or a longer period of time? Explain.

3.      3. Determine whether each of the following is an explicit cost or an implicit cost:

a) Payments for rented manufacturing equipment

b) A firm's use of a warehouse that it owns and could rent to another firm

c) Wages paid to the firm's workers
d) The wages the firm's owner could earn if he worked for another company

4.       Consider the following information in the table for Pat's Pizza Restaurant and answer the questions below.
Marginal Product of Capital 4,000
Marginal Produce of Labor 100
Wage Rate $10
Rental Price of Pizza Ovens $500
a. Is the owner of Pat's Pizza Restaurant minimizing cost?
b. Should he rent more ovens and hire fewer workers or rent fewer ovens and hire more workers? Explain.

MT445 Unit-8 inflation

1. Determine whether each of the following would cause a shift of the aggregate demand curve, a shift of the aggregate supply curve, neither, or both. Which curve shifts, and in which direction? What happens to aggregate output and the price level in each case?

a. The price level changes

i. Which curve shifts?
ii. Which direction does it shift?
iii. What happens to aggregate output?
iv. What happens to the price level?

b. Consumer confidence declines
i. Which curve shifts?
ii. Which direction does it shift?
iii. What happens to aggregate output?
iv. What happens to the price level?

c. The supply of resources increases
i. Which curve shifts?
ii. Which direction does it shift?
iii. What happens to aggregate output?
iv. What happens to the price level?

d. The wage rate increases
i. Which curve shifts?
ii. Which direction does it shift?
iii. What happens to aggregate output?
iv. What happens to the price level?

2. Determine whether the following statements are true or false.
i. Some people who are officially unemployed are not in the labor force.
ii. Some people in the labor force are not working.
iii. Everyone who is not unemployed is in the labor force.
iv. Some people who are not working are not unemployed.

3. Refer to the following data on the U.S. consumer price index and answer the questions below.
Year CPI Year CPI Year CPI Year CPI
1988 118.3 1993 144.5 1998 163.0 2003 184.0
1989 124.0 1994 148.2 1999 166.6 2004 188.9
1990 130.7 1995 152.4 2000 172.2 2005 195.3
1991 136.2 1996 156.9 2001 177.1 2006 201.8
1992 140.3 1997 160.5 2002 179.9

a. Compute the inflation rate for each year 1989-2006.
b. Which years were years of inflation?
c. In which years did deflation occur?
d. In which years did disinflation occur?
e. Was there hyperinflation in any year?

MT445 Unit-2 Assignment

1.       Explain what would happen to equilibrium price and quantity in the market for Pepsi if the following occurred (be sure to indicate WHY it happens as well):

a. The price of Coke decreases.
b. Average household income falls from $50,000 to $43,000
c. There are improvements in soft-drink bottling technology.
d. The price of sugar increases and the Pepsi launches an extremely successful advertising campaign.

 

2.        Use the following equations for demand and supply to solve for market equilibrium price and quantity:

Demand: Qd = 100 – 4P
Supply: Qs = 10 + 6P

 

3.       . Using the diagram below, answer the following questions:
a. How much is the per-unit tax on cigarettes?
b. What price do consumers pay after the tax?
c. How much tax revenue is collected?
d. What is the amount of deadweight loss?

mnc company

1.What do you think are the responsibilities of MNCs toward the environment? Give an example of a MNC that has seriously harmed (or repaired) the environment of a host country? What is your reaction to what happened?

MIS 3101 W5A2 -CNET Shopper

YOUR NAME:

ASSIGNMENT:  W5A2 - CNET Shopper

MIS3101 - South University

 

Use the CNET shopper (http://shopper.cnet.com/) intelligent agent to review and compare three laptop configurations to be used by a financial advisor and complete the table below. The 3 Laptop Columns are worth 20 points. However, if you don't supply the full path name to the CNET locations for the specifications, you will lose 10 of these 20 points. I need to verify the specifications for each laptop column.

 

The Justification column and Summary Section is where you will tie the real-world financial advisor's needs with your component selection and size of the components. These sections are worth 20 points.

 

I expect that you will use the sources I provided in the previous pages of this template. You may do additional research if you feel you need to do so. Any justification that uses sources from the previous pages should include an in-text citation.

 

NOTE:  You do not have to provide an exact price for the computer that you configured. I'm more interested that you choose the right sized components with a supporting justification.

 

NOTE:  NA = Not Applicable, which means that this cell does not need to be addressed.

 

MIS3101 W4A3 - Storage Alternatives Plan

Assignment 3: Storage Alternatives Plan

 You are the MIS manager of a company in the U.S. You need to design a disaster recovery plan that will help restore business operations after a disaster such as a tornado, flood, or terrorist attack. You are considering various types of secondary storage devices that can easily be transported to offsite locations after performing regular backups to the company's critical systems. Determine the access methods, the capacities, and the portability of the following:

• Magnetic Tapes
• Magnetic Disks
• Optical Disks

 

Decide the storage alternative you will recommend to your organization. Use the Microsoft Word template to submit your answer.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria and Respective Point Value	Maximum Points
Applied analysis to each of the storage alternatives like magnetic tapes, magnetic disks, and optical disks.	20
Justified reasons for recommended storage alternative.	20
Total:	40

 

MIS 3101 W5 A3 -DSS

For the W5A3 Dropbox assignment, you are doing a feasibility report that will ultimately lead to the purchase of a Decision Support System (DSS). The template file is more about the structure and grading of this assignment rather that a template. You will be creating an APA formatted report as your work product for this assignment rather than using a template. The new Template file provides the following:

1.     Provides background from the text on Decision Stages, DSS Architecture, and a DSS Example

2.     Provides the basic requirements that your report must address, which in turn suggests a structure for your report (headings, subheadings, etc.)

Assignment Clarification

 

Remember that the focus of this assignment is to:

1.      Identify the key DSS characteristics that will meet the needs of the decisions making that must be performed by the Procurement VP.

2.      You are NOT trying to solve the 3 power plant and 80 supplier proposals problem. The DSS will do that for you. You are trying to detail how a DSS would behave, be constructed, and be architected for use by the Procurement VP to help solve this multivariable problem.

3.      You should assume the role of the chief information officer for the presented scenario. As the chief information officer, it is your responsibility to provide a decision support system (DSS) to assist the company's procurement officer in finding the best way to supply the company's three power plants with a sufficient quantity of coal to operate for the next twelve months. You realize that a single supplier cannot provide the quantity of coal needed. Hence the DSS will have to review the proposals of eighty suppliers to establish the correct logistics to insure the plants will have an ample supply of coal to operate for this period.

 

Requirements for your DSS Report:

 

1.      To understand how a DSS would help our company, we need to first understand the decision that the company& DSS will first need to make. Discuss this decision process using the Four Stages in Decision Making and show how a DSS can address each stage (5 points)

2.      Regarding the DSS Architecture, discuss each of the architecture components in the context of this specific situation (7 points)

3.      Discuss the DSS Architecture Model that will be used for this system:  Data-Driven DSS or Model-Driven DSS (see the RESOURCES section below) (7 points)

4.      Identify the Inputs and Outputs (Results) in detail for this DDS (6 points)

5.      Discuss how Sensitivity Analysis would be used in this situation. Provide at least 3 scenario examples (5 points)

6.      Select3 Quality Dimensions from Table 10-2 in Laudon. Discuss what you would do (processes, procedures, measurements, benchmarking, governance, etc.) to ensure that your DSS addressed each of these 3 Quality Dimensions. (5 points)

7.      Provide an APA formatted report (5 points)