Essay Question Instructions: Make sure you show all work on the essay questions on scratch paper. Upload a PDF of your written work to the Canvas Upload module immediately after you finish the test. Most of the points are awarded based on your written work, not the final answer that you submit to each question. Essay Question 1: (A) Suppose that your student loan balance is $55,000.00 dollars and that the annual percent rate is 6.6% compounded monthly. Suppose also that this rate is fixed and you want to repay the loan in 10 years. How much will your monthly payment be? (B) Assume you deposit $30,000.00 dollars into a savings account that pays you simple interest at an annual percent rate of 5%. How long do you have to wait for your account balance to be $123,000.00?

Essay Question Instructions: Make sure you show all work on the essay questions on scratch paper. Upload a PDF of your written work to the Canvas Upload module immediately after you finish the test. Most of the points are awarded based on your written work, not the final answer that you submit to each question. Essay Question 3: Consider the following mileage chart: A B C D E A 0 20 30 32 14 B 20 0 26 24 18 C 30 26 0 28 36 D 32 24 28 0 22 E 14 18 36 22 0 (A) Use the Nearest Neighbor Algorithm starting at E to find a Hamilton circuit. Sketch it and find the length of the circuit. (B) Use the Cheapest Link Algorithm to find a Hamilton circuit. Sketch it and find the length of the circuit.

Essay Question Instructions: Make sure you show all work on the essay questions on scratch paper. Upload a PDF of your written work to the Canvas Upload module immediately after you finish the test. Most of the points are awarded based on your written work, not the final answer that you submit to each question. Essay Question 2: Consider the order requirement digraph given below: (A) Construct a schedule with two processors based on the priority list {C, A, B, F, D, E, G}.  (B) How much time does it take the two processors to finish all the tasks? (C) Do you think this is an optimal schedule? Explain briefly.

Find an Hamilton path for the given figure.

Find a Hamilton path for the given figure.

Essay Question Instructions: Make sure you show all work on the essay questions on scratch paper. Upload a PDF of your written work to the Canvas Upload module immediately after you finish the test. Most of the points are awarded based on your written work, not the final answer that you submit to each question. Essay Question 3: Consider the following mileage chart: A B C D E A 0 20 30 32 14 B 20 0 26 24 18 C 30 26 0 28 36 D 32 24 28 0 22 E 14 18 36 22 0 (A) Use the Nearest Neighbor Algorithm starting at D to find a Hamilton circuit. Sketch it and find the length of the circuit. (B) Use the Cheapest Link Algorithm to find a Hamilton circuit. Sketch it and find the length of the circuit.

Northview Outfitters, Inc. is a regional retailer specializing in outdoor apparel and equipment. During the current accounting period, the company experienced increased sales activity as a result of a successful marketing campaign. The following accounts were extracted from the company’s adjusted trial balance at year-end:   Account Name Balance ($) Sales Revenue 268,500 Sales Returns and Allowances 6,800 Sales Discounts 12,700 Cost of Goods Sold 149,300 Advertising Expense 17,400 Delivery Expense 8,900 Insurance Expense 1,500 Rent Expense 16,800 Salaries Expense 22,600 Income Tax Expense 6,100   Required Using the information above, answer the following questions for the period: Calculate net sales. Calculate the company’s gross profit. Calculate the company’s gross profit percentage. Round your answer to one decimal place. Calculate the company’s net income. Interpret the gross profit percentage. What does this percentage indicate about the company’s ability to cover operating expenses and generate profit? Assume the company’s gross profit percentage was 46.2% last year. Compare this year’s gross profit percentage to last year’s percentage: Has the company’s performance improved or declined? Provide at least one possible business reason that could explain the change. As a manager, identify one action the company could take to improve its gross profit percentage in the next accounting period.   NOTE: Partial credit will be given where applicable.  

Northview Outfitters, Inc. is a regional retailer specializing in outdoor apparel and equipment. During the current accounting period, the company experienced increased sales activity as a result of a successful marketing campaign. The following accounts were extracted from the company’s adjusted trial balance at year-end:   Account Name Balance ($) Sales Revenue 268,500 Sales Returns and Allowances 6,800 Sales Discounts 12,700 Cost of Goods Sold 149,300 Advertising Expense 17,400 Delivery Expense 8,900 Insurance Expense 1,500 Rent Expense 16,800 Salaries Expense 22,600 Income Tax Expense 6,100   Required Using the information above, answer the following questions for the period: Calculate net sales. Calculate the company’s gross profit. Calculate the company’s gross profit percentage. Round your answer to one decimal place. Calculate the company’s net income. Interpret the gross profit percentage. What does this percentage indicate about the company’s ability to cover operating expenses and generate profit? Assume the company’s gross profit percentage was 46.2% last year. Compare this year’s gross profit percentage to last year’s percentage: Has the company’s performance improved or declined? Provide at least one possible business reason that could explain the change. As a manager, identify one action the company could take to improve its gross profit percentage in the next accounting period.   NOTE: Partial credit will be given where applicable.

Explain the sequential process of primary, secondary, and tertiary wastewater treatment, including descriptions of the three stages and an explanation of how they each relate to one another in sequence.    Grading Breakdown Description, primary wastewater treatment – 5 ptsDescription, secondary wastewater treatment – 5 ptsDescription, tertiary wastewater treatment – 5 ptsExplanation, relationship between treatment stages – 5 ptsGrammar & Mechanics – 5 pts

Congress passes the Social Media Consumption Reduction and Online Limits Law (the SCROLL Act). The SCROLL Act prohibits social media companies from displaying posts from any person or entity on a user’s feed that such user has not chosen to follow. Under the Act, social media companies may still offer a “For You” or other similar type page, wherein the company can use algorithms to suggest particular content to the user and/or featured paid posts, but the user must actively choose to view this page. In passing the Act, Congress included extensive findings regarding the negative effects of prolonged social media scrolling on adolescent mental health and cited studies by the National Institute of Health, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, which found that children under the age of 18 are particularly susceptible to adverse mental health effects from prolonged scrolling on social media platforms. HypeLoop social media company files a lawsuit in federal court challenging the Act as unconstitutional: A. How might the court evaluate the Act’s constitutionality? In answering this question, consider and discuss the following: Under what authority might Congress have enacted the Act? What interests might the government argue as support for the Act for the court to consider? Are there any fundamental rights at play that the court will need to consider and weigh against the government’s interests? How might the analysis change if the Act applied only to users under 18 years old? Drawing upon what we have read and discussed in class, do you think the court will uphold the Act as constitutional or strike it down as unconstitutional? Explain your answer.