<span>20% is the maximum speed up possible for this program.
For this problem, let's assign the time of 1 for the task when using a single processor. Now let's assume that we have an infinite number of processors available to handle the portion of the program that can be executed in parallel so that the execution time for that portion will be 0. That means that the total execution time with an infinite number of processors will be
1 * (0.80 + 0) = 1 * 0.80 = 0.80
So at best, the parallel program will take 80% of the time for the single threaded version. So the speed increase will be
(1 - 0.80) / 1 = 0.20/1 = 0.20 = 20%</span>
Answer:
Year Cashflow [email protected]% PV
$ $
0 (750,000) 1 (750,000)
1 350,000 0.9259 324,065
2 325,000 0.8573 278,623
3 250,000 0.7938 198.450
4 180,000 0.7350 132,300
NPV 184,438
The correct answer is D. The difference in answers is due to rounding error.
Explanation:
Net present value is the diffrence between initial outlay and present value of inflow. We need to discount the cash inflows for year 1 to year 4 at 8% and then calculate the present value of cash inflows by multiplying the cash inflows by the discount factors. Finally, we will calculate NPV by deducting the initial outlay from the present value of cash inflows.
Here's the options that completes the question:
A. building a state-of-the-art facility to fully capture scale economies via an export strategy.
B. using export, licensing, or franchising strategies so as to minimize risk and capital investment.
C. locating buyer-related activities in all countries where it sells its product.
D. dispersing its activities among various countries in a manner that lowers costs or else helps achieve greater product differentiation and transferring competitively valuable competencies and capabilities from its domestic operations to its operations in foreign markets.
E. avoiding the use of strategies that entail coordinating its domestic strategic moves with its strategic moves in the various foreign markets that it enters.
Answer:
D. dispersing its activities among various countries in a manner that lowers costs or else helps achieve greater product differentiation and transferring competitively valuable competencies and capabilities from its domestic operations to its operations in foreign markets
Explanation:
A key condition that makes a firm achieve competitive advantage or a favourable business position is it's costs and product design.
If a firm can lower it's cost in a foreign market while also maintaining quality just as it is has done in it's domestic market then it stands a better chance of success.
For example, if a firm in the clothing line industry decides to expand its operations to a foreign market eg Africa.
A key factor in determining its success is its ability to lower its cost in the foreign market as compared to competitors, while also achieving the same quality standards of products.
Answer: Dirty float system.
Explanation:
The dirty float system is also knowns as "managed float".
It is a floating exchange rate in which the central bank of a particular country steps in occasionally to alter the pace at which the country's currency change value. In this system, the central bank acts to prevent external economics shock and guide against its disruptive effect on the domestic economy.
