Kuhn co. is considering a new project that will require an initial investment of $4 million. it has a target capital structure of 45% debt, 4% preferred stock, and 51% common equity. kuhn has noncallable bonds outstanding that mature in 15 years with a face value of $1,000, an annual coupon rate of 11%, and a market price of $1555.38. the yield on the company’s current bonds is a good approximation of the yield on any new bonds that it issues. the company can sell shares of preferred stock that pay an annual dividend of $8 at a price of $92.25 per share. kuhn does not have any retained earnings available to finance this project, so the firm will have to issue new common stock to fund it. its common stock is currently selling for $22.35 per share, and it is expected to pay a dividend of $1.36 at the end of next year. flotation costs will represent 3% of the funds raised by issuing new common stock. the company is projected to grow at a constant rate of 8.7%, and they face a tax rate of 25%. what will be the wacc for this project? (note: round your intermediate calculations to two decimal places.)

Provide an example of a project that combines the three principles of lean six sigma with business project management (bpm) and services oriented architecture (soa). identify the elements of the project that comply with each of three principles.

Read this excerpt from helen keller’s autobiography, the story of my life. have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? i was like that ship before my education began, only i was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was. "light! give me light! " was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. . the morning after my teacher came she led me into her room and gave me a doll. the little blind children at the perkins institution had sent it and laura bridgman had dressed it; but i did not know this until afterward. when i had played with it a little while, miss sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word "d-o-l-l." i was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it. when i finally succeeded in making the letters correctly i was flushed with childish pleasure and pride. running downstairs to my mother i held up my hand and made the letters for doll. i did not know that i was spelling a word or even that words existed; i was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation. in the days that followed i learned to spell in this uncomprehending way a great many words, among them pin, hat, cup and a few verbs like sit, stand and walk. based on this excerpt, which words best describe helen keller?

Suppose there is a relation r(a, b, c) with a b+-tree index with search keys (a, b).1. what is the worst-case cost of finding records satisfying 10 < a < 50 using this index, in terms of the number of records n1, retrieved and the height h of the tree? 2. what is the worst-case cost of finding records satisfying 10 < a < 50 and 5 < b < 10 using this index, in terms of the number of records n2 that satisfy this selection, as well as n1 and h defined above? 3. under what conditions on n1 and n2, would the index be an efficient way of finding records satisfying the condition from part (2)?