Artificial intelligence (A. I.) is a powerful tool for aiding human decision making. This activity is important because managers need to understand the tremendous capabilities, but also the serious dangers, inherent in using A. I. The goal of this exercise is to challenge your knowledge of the applications and downsides of A. l. Read the descriptions of various aspects of artificial intelligence. Select whether each item is an application of A. I. or a downside of A. l. 1. Hospitals use A. I. to monitor patients and predict the risk of death two days earlier than ever before possible. (Click to select)
2. A. l. sensors can alert drivers to potential hazards and accidents. (Click to select)
3. It is difficult to program machine learning systems to act in ways that are desired and predictable. (Click to select)
4. The potential to aid in human decision making (Click to select)
5. A. I. is devoid of common sense. (Click to select)
6. There is the potential for A. I. to be put to malicious use. (Click to select) nore powerful than humans when building and evaluating models and simulations to make
7. Machines guided by A. I. are faster and predictions. (Click to select)

Sweeten company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of march and no beginning inventories. the company has two manufacturing departments--molding and fabrication. it started, completed, and sold only two jobs during march—job p and job q. the following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for jobs p and q (all data and questions relate to the month of march): molding fabrication total estimated total machine-hours used 2,500 1,500 4,000 estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead $ 10,000 $ 15,000 $ 25,000 estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 1.40 $ 2.20 job p job q direct materials $ 13,000 $ 8,000 direct labor cost $ 21,000 $ 7,500 actual machine-hours used: molding 1,700 800 fabrication 600 900 total 2,300 1,700 sweeten company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month. required: for questions 1-8, assume that sweeten company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base. for questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments. 1. what was the company’s plantwide predetermined overhead rate? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) next

phillips, inc. had the following financial data for the year ended december 31, 2019. cash $ 41,000 cash equivalents 75,000 long term investments 59,000 total current liabilities 149,000 what is the cash ratio as of december 31, 2019, for phillips, inc.? (round your answer to two decimal places.)

Colter steel has $5,550,000 in assets. temporary current assets $ 3,100,000 permanent current assets 1,605,000 fixed assets 845,000 total assets $ 5,550,000 assume the term structure of interest rates becomes inverted, with short-term rates going to 10 percent and long-term rates 2 percentage points lower than short-term rates. earnings before interest and taxes are $1,170,000. the tax rate is 40 percent earnings after taxes = ?