2006 Problem Statement: A very wealthy king has 8 bags of gold- all the gold in the kingdom‚ which he trusts to 8 of his most trustworthy caretakers; one bag to each caretaker. All the bags have equal weight and contain the same amount of gold‚ totaling all the gold in the kingdom. But one day‚ the king hears a story that a woman from another kingdom received a gold coin. The king knew it had to be his gold‚ because he owned all the gold in the kingdom. Someone was spending his gold! So he decided
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Problem Statement: There was a very economic king who gathered up all the gold in his land and put it into eight bags.He made sure that each bag weighed exactly the same amount. The king then chosed the eught people in his country whome he trusted the most‚and gave a bad og gold to eahc of them to keep safe for him.On special occasions he asked them to bring the bags back so he could look at them.(He liked looking at his‚even though he didnt like spending it.) One day the king heard from a foreign
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Problem Statement There are twelve items numbered 1 through 12. All of the values or "weights" are the same except one item whose value is either greater than or less that the other 11 by an unknown amount. One can compare the sum of the values of a number of items in a set with the sum of the values of items in a disjoint set to see which one is greater. This comparison is also called "weighing." Find the least number of ways to determine which
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I signed up for a 1 year membership back on 11/1/2008‚ that was supposed to expire‚ come up for renewal on 10/31/2009. Despite numerous attempts to cancel service in person at the gym‚ I was finally forced to send a certified letter to ABC Financial (who the hell are they?) in order to cancel membership that had already expired. Gold’s Gym‚ without my consent‚ put me into a month to month membership even after I told them several times that I did not want to continue my membership. On 2/10/2010 I
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Chapter 8 1‚4‚5 1. Cray Research sold a super computer to the Max Planck Institute in Germany on credit and invoiced €10 million payable in six months. Currently‚ the six-month forward exchange rate is $1.10/€ and the foreign exchange advisor for Cray Research predicts that the spot rate is likely to be $1.05/€ in six months. (a) What is the expected gain/loss from the forward hedging? The expected gain from this sale can be figured by using this equation: 10‚000‚000(1
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Department of Economics University of California‚ Berkeley Fall 2012 Econ 182 Solutions Problem Set 8 Problem 1. Exchange Rates and International Transmission a. Suppose that the US engages in a monetary expansion. Since exchange rate is pegged to the US dollar‚ country X’s monetary authorities are forced to expand their money supply as well (recall that i = i* under FixER). Interest rates fall in country X‚ output expands‚ and of course the exchange rate remains unchanged. On the AA-DD diagram
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Problem 8-3. For each of the following situations‚ the present value concept should be applied: 1. Your wealthy aunt just established a trust fund for you that will accumulate to a total of $100‚000 in 12 years. Interest on the trust fund is compounded annually at an 8% rate. How much is in your trust fund today? 2. On January 1‚ you will purchase a new car. The automobile dealer will allow you to make increasing annual December 31 payments over the following four years. The amounts
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Reading 8: • What exactly is the problem? What values and goals make it a problem? o The problem is that there are both cultural/behavioral and structural/economic causes to poverty. The cultural/behavioral approach places responsibility for poverty on the personal inadequacies of the poor‚ welfare in general‚ or the design flaws of welfare programs. The structural/economic approach places responsibility for poverty on the movement of manufacturing jobs from the cities to the suburbs and the
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Chapter 8 Programming Problems IT/210 Chapter 8 Programming Problems For each of the following problems‚ use the top-down modular approach and pseudocode to design a suitable program to solve it. 1. Input names of students from the user‚ terminated by ZZZ‚ and create a data file GRADES with records of the form: student(string)‚ test1(interger)‚ test2 (interger)‚ test3 (interger). In this file‚ all test scores should be set equal to 0. Analysis Process 1. Display input student
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“Enter test 3 score for”+Student[K] Input Test3 Write Newfile‚ Student[K]‚ Test1[K]‚ Test2[K]‚ Test3[K] End For Analysis: The problems required output is the students name with scores from three tests. Each student and scores shall be listed on separate lines. The input variables needed for this program include Test1‚ Test2‚ Test3‚ and Student. Chapter 8 Problem 1. Part A and B
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