To accelerate an application, two enhancements are designed. Enhancement 1 can provide an improvement factor of 10 while Enhancement 2 can provide an improvement factor of 6. Enhancement 1 is applicable to 50% of the instructions and enhancement 2 is usable for 30% of the instructions. Two enhancements do not overlap. What is the speedup if both enhancements are applied at the same time? a) If you keep improving these two enhancements, i.e. keep increasing the improvement factors of both enhancements, what is the best speedup you can reach?

For most applications, a team of developers works together building code for specific features and functionality. This collaboration provides numerous benefits to the developers as well as the users of the finished product. What are some of the benefits of team-based approach to application development? What are some of the challenges to this approach and how can a development manager prevent these from negatively impacting the final product? What are some "good programming principles" that you can implement to help others work with the code you write? Are you able to implement these practices for your weekly programming assignment? (Provide justification for your response regardless of which position you choose to take.)

Bradley shop is a family owned store that sells beverages. The store offers 3 types of beverages: Coffee, Alcohol, and Smoothie. The owner of the shop likes to automate the order transactions and reports and purchase a software for testing order activities for one month.

In terms of programming, it's preferable to have a deeper rather than a shallower level of access, so don't base your decision just on performance.