Define a main program and a function program 2. Main program a. define the vectors x, y, and the vector for the initial guess for a. Use your engineering judgment to come up with an appropriate initial guess vector for {a}. It should be fairly obvious what "ballpark" initial guesses should be for a1 and a3, but a2 is not so obvious. b. determine the coefficients using fminsearch c. output the coefficients as follows The initial temperature of the water is: #.41 The room temperature is: #.43 The calculated constant k is: #.###12 d. generate a plot showing the original data points as symbols and a solid line for the equation room kt T

3. ranga ramasesh is the operations manager for a firm that is trying to decide which one of four countries it should research for possible outsourcing providers. the first step is to select a country based on cultural risk factors, which are critical to eventual business success with the provider. ranga has reviewed outsourcing provider directories and found that the four countries in the table that follows have an ample number of providers from which they can choose. to aid in the country selection step, he has enlisted the aid of a cultural expert, john wang, who has provided ratings of the various criteria in the table. the resulting ratings are on a 1 to 10 scale, where 1 is a low risk and 10 is a high risk. john has also determined six criteria weightins: trust, with a weight of 0.3; quality, with 0.2; religious, with 0.1; individualism, with 0.2; time, with 0.1; and uncertainity, with 0.1. using the factor-rating method, which country should ranga select? why? (2 points)

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