Acustomer asks you over the phone how much it will cost to upgrade memory on her desktop system to 16 gb. she is a capable windows user and able to access bios/uefi setup using the user power-on password you set up for her. which actions can you ask the customer to perform as you direct her over the phone to get the information you need and develop an estimate of the upgrade’s cost?
a. use bios/uefi to view how much memory is installed and how much memory the system can hold.
b. enter info32.exe to determine how much memory is currently installed.
c. use bios/uefi to show which memory slots are used and how much memory is installed in each slot.
d. view the system information window to determine how much memory is currently installed.

Maker-bot corporation has 10,000 shares of 10%, $90 par value, cumulative preferred stock outstanding since its inception. no dividends were declared in the first two years. if the company pays $400,000 of dividends in the third year, how much will common stockholders receive?

Richardson hired j.c. flood company, a plumbing contractor, to correct a stoppage in the sewer line of her house. the plumbing company's 'snake' device, used to clear the line leading to the main sewer, became caught in the underground line. to release it, the company excavated a portion of the sewer line in richardson's backyard. in the process, the company discovered numerous leaks in a rusty, defective water pipe that ran parallel with the sewer line. to meet public regulations, the water pipe, of a type no longer approved for such service, had to be replaced either then or later, when the yard would have to be excavated again. the plumbing company proceeded to repair the water pipe. though richardson inspected the company's work daily and did not express any objection to the extra work involved in replacing the water pipe, she refused to pay any part of the total bill after the company completed the entire operation. j.c. flood company then sued richardson for the costs of labor and material it had furnished. (c) for what, if anything, should richardson be liable? explain."

Differentiate between the trait, behavioral, and results-based performance appraisal systems, providing an example where each would be most applicable.