The information below is from a sample set of surgeries that have been performed at Grand Valley Hospital over the past year. As part of this exercise you are going to be asked to perform a number of calculations and formatting tasks to evaluate your Excel skills.

Given int variables k and total that have already been declared, use a while loop to compute the sum of the squares of the first 50 counting numbers, and store this value in total. thus your code should put 11 + 22 + 33 + + 4949 + 50*50 into total. use no variables other than k and total.

Perform the following tasks: a. create a class named testclass that holds a single private integer field and a public constructor. the only statement in the constructor is one that displays the message “constructing”. write a main()function that instantiates one object of the testclass. save the file as testclass.cpp in the chapter 08 folder. run the program and observe the results. b. write another main()function that instantiates an array of 10 testclass objects. save the file as test class array.c . run this program and observe the results.

Why is investing in a mutual fund less risky than investing in a particular company's stock? a. mutual funds only invest in blue-chip stocks. b. investments in mutual funds are more liquid. c. mutual funds hold a diversified portfolio of stocks. d. investments in mutual funds offer a higher rate of return.