Anew york times article about bernie madoff and his illegal ponzi scheme stated, "when money goes global, fraud does too." although the goal of investors who trusted madoff's investment company was to earn the highest return possible on their investments, they turned a blind eye toward the fact that some of those returns were too good to be true. individual investors, companies, and even charities lost large sums of money by investing with madoff's company. which of the following statements relates to this story
a. the unethical behavior of one company had a worldwide ripple effect that can impact the well being of an economy. b. too much regulation caused the capitalistic nature of mr. madoff's business model to fail. c. people lost money because of the fluctuations in world trading currencies, questioning the legitimacy of trading abroad. d. investors did not sign contracts with mr. madoff's company. the government can only protect individuals and companies who sign enforceable contracts.

Imagine us is a startup that offers high definition 3d prenatal ultrasounds for high-end customers. the service process includes four activities that are conducted in the sequence described below. (the time required for each activity is shown in parentheses): activity 1: welcome a patient and explain the procedure. (20 minutes)activity 2: prep the patient (e.g., show them to the room, apply ultrasound gel). (17 minutes) (*your id number represents the amount of time needed to complete this task)activity 3: take images. (5 minutes)activity 4: discuss diagnostic with patient. (20 minutes)at each location there are employees (servers) s1, s2, and s3. the assignment of tasks to servers is the following: s1 does activities 1 and 2.s2 does activity 3.s3 does activity 4.a. what is the capacity of this process (in customers per hour)? b. suppose 3 patients arrive every hour on average. ignoring any “start of day” or “end of day” effects, what are the utilizations of all three servers (%)? c. suppose each activity can be done by any server and any server can do any set of activities. however, each activity is done by only one server. for example, a possible assignment includes: s1 does activity 1, s2 does activity 2, and s3 does activities 3 and 4. of course, the original assignment of servers to activities is also feasible. what is the maximum capacity of the process (in customers per hour)? d. now consider the capacity measures in (c) and (a), what is the percentage change? why can you improve capacity without using additional resources? (there is no free lunch, right? )note: for all hw assignments, show your process of getting the results. only providing the final answers is not acceptable and will get 0%. if necessary, use a separate sheet of paper to show your work.