How can we shift from competing against the VUCA ( Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world to collaborating with it?

A loan of $8,000 is borrowed to be repaid with uniform annual payments at an interest rate of 12% per year over 5 years. What is the amount of this annual payments? Problem 5: Stanley, Inc. makes self-clinching fasteners for stainless steel applications. It expects to acquire new punching equipment 6 years from now. If the company sets aside $125,000 each year, determine the amount available in 4 years at an earning rate of 9% per year. Problem 6: A construction company wants to know how much to spend on maintenance for equipment each year for the next 6 years to be equivalent to part of its profit which equals $1 million 6 years from now. Assume the company's MARR is 20% per year. Score A 36.0 kg child slides down a playground slide that is 25 m high, as shown in the image. At the bottom of the slideshe is moving at 4.0 m/s. How much energy was transformed by friction as she slid down the slide? You're a junior investment banker, chatting to a client of yours, the CEO of a major import/export business. She informs you that she was recently approached by a major competitor of her company, asking her if she'd be interested in buying the company for a price of $30bn. The CEO proceeds to ask you if that's a fair price. Please assume: The competitor company has a 20% tax rate, a 20% EBIT Margin, and a discount rate of 12%. Please answer: What do you tell the CEO - is the price fair? What would the competitor's financial performance have to be in order to justify the price? Please elaborate on the way you derived your answer (show/explain calculations) and explain which numbers you took into consideration. Note: Please make necessary (simplifying) assumptions yourself and report all financials that can be calculated based on the given information. Rachel has been asked to contribute a brief video describing her summer as an engineering intern with the city's electric power company for her high school career counseling center. She was recently the featured subject of an article in the local newspaper about her participation in the Student Assistance for Education program (SAFE) and plans to use some of the information in her video script. Read Rachel's draft outline of her video script and answer the question.I. Investing in FutureA. Inspirationthe birth of an idea-What ignited my curiosity?-What obstacles were in my way?B. Follow upideas+effort=personal action planII. Where can you begin?A. Teachers & Mentors-ASU Summer Program, pre-freshmen engineering-SAFE ProgramB. High School career counseling services-bulletinsREAD updates regularly-office visitsIII. How is CPS assisting me today?IV. What's In Your Future?A. College and careerB. Mentoring othersWhich section of Rachel's draft outline would the information in paragraphs 1-4 of the news article CPS Energy: Mentors Jump-Start College, Careers best support? Click here to read the news article. A. It supports section III. How is CPS Assisting Me Today? because Ms. Gladstone is an employee of CPS, the city's electrical service provider. B. It should be included in section II.A.2. SAFE Program because Ms. Gladstone was Rachel's mentor during her participation in the Student Assistant for Education program. C. It should be a part of section II.B. 1. bulletinsREAD updates regularly because in 2001 Ms. Gladstone was a high school student who read about SAFE through her school's career counseling services. D. It should be linked to section IV.A. College and career because Ms. Gladstone was a former SAFE participant, graduated from college, and has a career as an engineer at CPS. Given: Circle P P with center at (-4,1) which equation could represent circle P Consider the following reaction: NO + 03 --- NO2 + O2. Which is the correct expression for the instantaneous reaction rate? Select one: 1. d102 2. 3. dt d[NO dt d[0, dt dos dt 4. V In the following case, which cognitive bias, if any, is it reasonable to conclude is occurring in Lee?Lee sees a person walking down the street, and the person is swinging his arms, ducking, and moving erratically. Lee immediately thinks that the person has a mental disorder or just a really strange person.A. Fundamental Attribution ErrorB. Actor-Observer ErrorC. Plausible that there is no cognitive biasD. Availability HeuristicE. Negativity Bias Define arterial pressure and understand the meaning of mean arterial pressure value and its determinants. List components, and explain the function and mechanisms through which the body regulates arterial pressure (neural and hormonal, short term/reflex regulation and long-term regulation) and understand the clinical significance of changes in arterial pressure regulation (hypertension, hypotension). Predict changes in arterial pressure that occur during physiological challenges such as changes in posture, during exercise, or over a lifetime As a futurist working on Hope For All's issue, it's time to present your final thoughts. Submit the following in a Word document or PowerPoint file. Better yet, you can try beautiful.ai. (Links to an external site.)This should be a minimum of (8) slides and a maximum of (15) slides or (3) written pages.Hope For All (title and about the organization)State the ProblemIdentify futuring methods used to problem solveProvide at least 3 to 5 of your strongest solutionsSummarize your work as a futuristNOTE: this is your opportunity to make your ideas as professional as possible for Hope For All. Imagine you are presenting this to the client. Your work may be submitted to Hope For All. 28. Wind of speed v flows through a wind generator. The wind speed drope to after passing through the blades. What is the maximum possible efficiency of the generator? 27 B 27 c 19 27 D 26 27 bor of the Earth are The p-v below plot shows four different paths for an ideal gasgoing from a pressure and volume of (v,p) to (4v,4p). Which one ofthe following statements is true? In hospital settings, a support worker is usually supervised by a nurse. Which of the following describes units in the hospital that may employ support workers? O Emergency departments and critical care units O Recreational activities units and emergency departments O Critical care units and recreational activities unit Critical care units and salon care unit If you want children to learn social skills, they need to also haveGroup of answer choicesA. complete autonomy.B. good manners.C. stranger anxiety.D. a primary attachment relationship. A 54.27 mg sample of 235U will have how many mg of 235 U remaining after 15,338,756.17 years have passed if the half-life of 235 U is 7.048x108 years? Market segmentation, target marketing and position are at the center of successfully creating, communicating and delivering value to customers. From Exhibit 7.1 and Chapter 7 which outlines market segmentation, target marketing, and positioning:Please briefly describe each of these three key marketing capabilities.Please articulate why each of these capabilities are critical to creating, communicating and delivering value to customers. What is a subprime mortgage? What was the role of GNMA (Ginnie Mae) in the mortgagebacked securities market of the 1970 s? When goods are delivered fob shipping point and freight costs are paid in cash, the ______. Marcel Co. is growing quickly. Dividends are expected to grow at a rate of 0.09 for the next 4 years, with the growth rate falling off to a constant 0.01 thereafter. If the required return is 0.14 and the company just paid a $0.88 dividend, what is the current share price? Answer with 2 decimals (e.g. 45.45). Which of the following statements about cardiac contractile cells is TRUE? Cardiac contractile cells are short branched, and contains one or two nuclei. Cardiac contractile cells are short, branched, and contains one or two nuclei. The myosin and actin myofilaments of cardiac contractile cells are organized into sarcomeres. All of these statements are true. None of the given statements are true. PFD Company has debt with a yield to maturity of 7%, a cost of preferred stock of 9%, and a cost of equity of 13%. The market values of its debt, preferred stock, and equity are $10 million, $2 million, and $16 million, respectively, and its tax rate is 40%. What is this firms weighted-average cost of capital?