n-Amyl Alcohol or “1-Pentanol” is an alcohol with five carbon atoms. It is a colorless liquid with an unpleasant aroma.…
Bonnie is afraid to express anger toward her overbearing and irritating supervisor. Instead, she is critical of her children. A psychoanalyst would suggest that Bonnie's reaction to her children illustrates:…
____ 2. For product M, a firm has an annual holding cost percentage of 20%, an ordering cost of $80 per order, and annual demand of 10,000 units. If they order less than 1,100 units at a time, the purchase price is $10.00. If they order 1,100 or more, then the purchase price for all units is $8.00. What are the possible optimal solutions?…
3) The Cranston Hardware Company is interested in estimating the difference in the mean purchase for men customers versus women customers. It wishes to estimate this difference using a 95 percent confidence level. Assume that the variances are equal and the populations normally distributed. The following data represent independent samples from each population:…
Mary Atha, CEO, has provided this checklist of overall organization goals for the sales and marketing area. Read the checklist and use it as a point of reference for your development of this SAW.…
1. A recent issue of Fortune Magazine reported that the following companies had the lowest sales per employee among the Fortune 500 companies. [20 Marks]…
Entrepreneurship allows for the new businesses that create jobs which is the basis of our economy. It drives up the standard of living and leads to a high quality of life.…
You are the manager of a large firm. Lately complaints have surfaced that an increased number of incoming calls are being dropped or misrouted. Yesterday, as you walked by one older employee, you noticed that he was fiddling with his hearing aid and not paying attention to the phone. A call came in and only because you were there and intervened was the call answered. This particular phone operator had been reprimanded three months earlier for tardiness. Your instinct is to fire this phone rep or encourage him to retire (he is old enough). You also know that this gentleman is well liked within the company. Pose several hypotheses that might account for the dropped or misrouted calls. How would you test these hypotheses?…
What are the three alternatives for first-time exporters to reach foreign customers? The three alternatives for first-time exporters are: export-trading companies, export…
A researcher predicts that watching a film on institutionalization will change students’ attitudes about chronically mentally ill patients. The researcher randomly selects a class of 36 students, shows them the film, and gives them a questionnaire about their attitudes. The mean score on the questionnaire for these 36 students is 70. The score for a similar class of students who did not see the film is 75. The standard deviation is 12. Using the five steps of hypothesis testing and the 5% significance level (i.e. alpha = .05), does showing the film change students’ attitudes towards the chronically mentally ill?…
The philosophers who most influenced the development of psychology as a science all sought to explain human cognition.…
One in eight American’s over age 65 are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. This number continues to grow as the population increases. The number of people affected by Alzheimer’s is alarming. The Alzheimer’s Association (2011) estimates that 5.4 million Americans of all ages suffer from this disease. Team A will attempt to form a hypothesis stating that the number of Alzheimer’s diagnoses will statistically increase each year at an alarming rate. We will then test our hypothesis based on data collected and provide our recommendation.…
Before Using the Software Important Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Operating Environment Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 User Management Screen Register new user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Edit a user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Delete a user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Search for a user on the user list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 View user data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Change the title names on user list .…
The t-test was developed by W. S. Gossett, a statistician employed at the Guinness brewery. However, because the brewery did not allow employees to publish their research, Gossett's work on the t-test appears under the name "Student". The t-test is sometimes referred to as "Student's t-test." Gossett was a chemist and was responsible for developing procedures for ensuring the similarity of batches of Guinness. The t-test was developed as a way of measuring how closely the yeast content of a particular batch of beer corresponded to the brewery's standard.…
Cryer, P. (2000). The research student’s guide to success (2nd ed.). Buckingham, UK: Open University Press.…