An 8-day-old was admitted to the hospital with vomiting and…

An 8-day-old was admitted to the hospital with vomiting and dehydration. The newborn’s heart rate is 170, respiratory rate is 44, blood pressure is 85/52, and temperature is 99°F (37.2°C). What is the nurse’s best response to the parents who ask if the vital signs are normal?  

Note: For this exercise, you may use the provided scratch pa…

Note: For this exercise, you may use the provided scratch paper to perform calculations. Please write your name and G# on the top of the page and return to the proctor when you have completed the exam.   Galactica 3000, is a galaxy simulator developed by the (fictitious) computational astrophysics institute at GMU. It is used to model the evolution of galaxies. A simulation consists of two main parts: Gravitational calculations (80% of the runtime): These are parallelizable and can be sped up by adding more processors. Black hole collision predictions (20% of the runtime): Due to the complexity of interactions, this part is not parallelizable. The institute is considering purchasing a new supercomputer with 16 processors to speed up the simulation. The director asks you to evaluate the expected speedup of Galactica 3000 when run on this new hardware. Question 1: Using Amdahl’s law, calculate the theoretical speedup of the simulation on the 16-processor supercomputer. Question 2: Suppose the engineers manage to improve the code so that 95% of the runtime becomes parallelizable. Recalculate the theoretical speedup for this improved version. Question 3: The director wants the simulation to run 10× faster than the current version. Is it possible with the 16-processor supercomputer? If not, how much of the program must be parallelizable to achieve this goal?

Use the following graph to answer the questions below: The…

Use the following graph to answer the questions below: The autonomous consumption in this scenario is $[1]. The marginal propensity to consume in this scenario is [2].  The complete consumption function for this graph would be: C = [3] + [4]($4000) = $3,500

The USDA has used the commodity loan rate mechanism since th…

The USDA has used the commodity loan rate mechanism since the early 1930’s to support prices for commodities such as corn, wheat, and cotton. The loan rate serves as a [answer1] to the participating farmers. The [agency] acts as a purchasing agent for the federal government in this program.