Answer the following question using Amdahl’s Law. Assume a computer system with three components, A, B, and C. Each component is used 40%, 35%, and 25% of the time, respectively. The components are used serially (i. e., not in parallel). The cost of this baseline system is $1,000. Assume that you are a manufacturer that has developed better implementations of these components, named A , B , and C . The speedup of the better components compared to the original components is 1.25×, 1.3×, 1.2×, respectively. Assume that a customer is willing to pay more for a faster computer system proportional to the speedup (e. g., $1,100 for a system that is 1.1× as fast as the baseline system). What is the maximum price increase that you can charge for each of the better components, A+, B+, and C+?

Anew author is in the process of negotiating a contract for a new romance novel. the publisher is offering three options. in the first option, the author is paid $5,000 upon delivery of the final manuscript and $20,000 when the novel is published. in the second option, the author is paid 12.5% of the net price of the novel for each copy of the novel sold. in the third option, the author is paid 10% of the net price for the first 4,000 copies sold, and 14% of the net price for the copies sold over 4,000. the author has some idea about the number of copies that will be sold and would like to have an estimate of the royal- ties generated under each option. write a program that prompts the author to enter the net price of each copy of the novel and the estimated number of copies that will be sold. the program then outputs he royalties under each option and the best option the author could choose. (use appropriate named constants to store the special values such as royalty rates and fixed royalties.