Dinnertime A professor is planning an informal gathering for 100 or so of his closest friends. The project breaks down as follows:
Activity Time Predecessor
Call planner 12
Book caterer 10
Hire quartet 9 Call planner
Schedule cleaning crew 15 Call planner
Stock wine cellar 7 Book caterer
Hire valets 8 Schedule cleaning crew, Stock wine cellar
Schedule butler overtime 13 Hire quartet, Hire valets
1. Refer to Table I, Which of these is not a critical path activity?
1) schedule cleaning crew
2) hire quartet
3) hire valets
4) schedule butler
2. Refer to Table I, What is the slack time for the Stock wine cellar activity?
1) 14
2) 8
3) 10
4) 12
3. Refer to Table I, What is the fastest this project can be completed?
1) 38
2) 48
3) 34
4) 44

Acompany is developing a new high­performance wax for cross country ski racing. in order to justify the price marketingwants, the wax needs to be very fast. specifically, the mean time to finish their standard test course should be less thanseconds for a former olympic champion. to test it, the champion will ski the course 8 times. the champion's times(selected at random) are 59.9 61.9 48.8 52.2 46.6 45.3 50.6 and 41.1 seconds to complete the test course. complete parts a and b below.a) should they market the wax? assume the assumptions and conditions for appropriate hypothesis testing are metfor the sample.assume=0.05. what are the null and alternative hypotheses? choose the correct answer below.b) suppose they decide not to market the wax after the test, but it turns out that the wax really does lower the champion'saverage time to less thanseconds. what kind of error have they made? explain the impact to the company of such anerror.

The uptowner just paid an annual dividend of $4.12. the company has a policy of increasing the dividend by 2.5 percent annually. you would like to purchase shares of stock in this firm but realize that you will not have the funds to do so for another four years. if you require a rate of return of 16.7 percent, how much will you be willing to pay per share when you can afford to make this investment?

The fiscal 2016 financial statements of nike inc. shows average net operating assets (noa) of $8,450 million, average net nonoperating obligations (nno) of $(4,033) million, average total liabilities of $9,014 million, and average equity of $12,483 million. the company's 2016 financial leverage (flev) is: select one: a. (0.477) b. (0.559 c. (0.323) d. (0.447) e. there is not enough information to determine the ratio.