You are tasked with evaluating the effect of the age of a home on its selling price. Use the Housing Prices dataset posted on Cougars Courses to answer this question. In your answer clearly (1) state your hypothesis, (2) show the necessary steps to conducting econometric research, (3) explain your rationale in each step and (4) state your conclusion.

BENEFIT ENROLLMENT PERIOD

Background Information:

You work for Baxter Company and need to announce the benefit enrollment period.
Based on last year’s enrollment period, you are concerned about the attitude of employees. They don’t seem to realize that changes to health, dental, and life insurance programs can be made only once a year, during the month of May.

You’ll need to let your audience know that most of the benefit program is unchanged. However, dental coverage is a little different; two carriers (Quality Care and Health Alliance) now offer a dental coverage option. Employees can also increase coverage in life insurance for their family members, and health coverage will now include both a basic plan and a prudent buyer plan. You do not have to describe these changes; just encourage employees to read about them in an email to be sent in early April---see instructions for the exact date.

Your boss, Jonathon, asks you to schedule and announce a day early in April when representatives from Human Resources will be available to answer employee questions about the changes. He suggests these question-and-answer sessions be held in the East Lounge, and each session should be held at different times of the day: Dental insurance changes from 8:30 to10:30 a.m., Health insurance changes from 1 to 3 p.m., and Life insurance changes from 3 to 5 p.m.

Your Task:

Write an informational memo report to your employees announcing changes to their benefit coverage and the enrollment deadline. This is important because employees may make changes to their benefits only during this period. The deadline for changes is May 31.

First, read the attached file.

Second, prepare this message as an informational memo report, addressed to All Employees and sent from you, the Benefits Choice Manager. Date the informational report, and be sure to include a useful subject line; useful subject lines capture the essence of the report's content. Refer to the Guffey text for review.

Third, pick the meeting date (and use facts given regarding times ) in the case. You can refer to The Gregg Reference Manual for proper presentation of timeframes when using a.m. and p.m. in your message. Also, be sure to mention the location given in the case. When listing the times for each meeting, you will create a 3-item bulleted list; use bullets for each benefit to be discussed. You must figure out the best way to present this bulleted list.

Next, you must follow the Standard Memo Report Procedure document (and its supplement) for layout/format of your informational report. In this message, you will not use major or subsection breaks or continuation page headings. That is, it will be a maximum one page in length. Also, note that business reports contain no formal salutation and no complimentary close. Furthermore, your name and job title are typed as the content of the FROM: header near the top of the page; and your job title belongs on the same line as your typed name.

Finally, the opening paragraph [Introductory section] of your report will clarify for the reader exactly what content is coming in the discussion section of the report. The [Discussion section] will contain the facts you wish to present to your readers and will be from 1 - 4 paragraphs in length---in this case, shorter is better. Be sure to indicate the highlights of the coming changes that will be contained in an email to be sent on April 5. Your final paragraph [Closing section] will contain information about what the reader must do with the information. In this case, the action will be an invitation to attend one or more of the informational sessions at the times and in the location specified. Additionally, you will tell your employees what action to take if they cannot make it to the meetings they wish to attend.

Shown below is a model of how your finished report might look: [The model shows a one-paragraph introductory section, a two-paragraph discussion section, and a one-paragraph closing section; Your final report may vary based on the amount of information written in the discussion section.] You should be able to fit all of the necessary information on one page.

TO:          All Employees

FROM:      Your Name, Your Job Title

DATE:      March 27, 2013

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Name this Word document Benefit Choice Your First Name Your Last Name. Submit.

Assignment:

(1) How is the media, biased, more towards progressive-liberal values, conservative values or in both directions depending on the specific media outlets you may access? Explain your response. (2) Describe in detail the different types of bias that the media uses. (This should be your main content). i.e. Bias by omission, bias by se.......etc., etc... (3) Find two or more examples of media bias (video clip, article, images) and explain in detail how these example/s represent media bias and the impact that it has on public opinion. Writing Guidelines: 4-5 FULL double-spaced pages of text. This does not include your title page or reference page. If you turn in 2 pages of content then I start grading from 50%, etc. Normal Sized font please. (12 font max) Normal indention and spacing. If you have questions about your spacing or indentations please feel free to send me some examples. However, 4-5 pages of content on this topic should be EASY, especially right now. Please introduce your topic, explain about it, then conclude your topic. Focus on the structure of your paper. Write in complete sentences and paragraphs. Bullet points or lists will not be accepted. PLEASE PLEASE double check for errors! PROOFREAD. Take it to the writing center if you need help! Be original - All papers submitted in this class are reviewed via Turnitin.com, a proprietary software database that identifies unoriginal material in papers. Please review the syllabus statement regarding the penalty for plagiarism. Refer to the Writing Guidelines content page for additional writing assignment criteria.

1. Suppose the company White Cabs is the sole authorised operator of taxicabs in Fairville, a city of about two million people.

a) With the aid of a revenue-cost diagram, explain and illustrate the company's decisions with regard to output (how much service it provides) and price. What kind of market structure are you assuming here? Would you expect White Cabs to make super-normal (or above-normal, or economic) profit? Briefly explain the latter concept.

NOTE: Please explain the answer in detail. And the diagram should be very neat. Thank you!

Proof the Solow Residual as a measure of
technological progress.

Please answer in DETAIL and EXPLAIN each step carefully. (better if handwritten)
Do not use other chegg answers.
Be accurate and explain EACH STEP

Thank you!

a. Dan Pink states in the video that there is a “mismatch between what science knows and what business does”. What does he mean by this in the video? Explain in detail.

b. Under what conditions do rewards work? Under what conditions don’t rewards work?

c. Define “Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose” and explain their importance in job design.

d. What is the ROWE Model and is this something you think you would enjoy as an employee? Would you also like to use this as a manager of others?

Suppose that a set of three traffic lights along one section of road operate independently (i.e., no communication or special timing between the lights). Since this is a fairly main road, the lights are green with a probability of 0.7 and red with probability 0.3. As you go through this stretch of road, What's the probability that :

At least one of the lights is red?

Males and females are observed to react differently to a given set of circumstances. It has been observed that 70% of the females react positively to these circumstances, whereas only 40% of males react positively. A group of 20 people, 15 female and 5 male, was subjected to these circumstances, and the subjects were asked to describe their reactions on a written questionaire. A response picked at random from the 20 was negative. what is the probability that it was that of a male?(using bayes' rule)

Well, we are obviously in the middle of a crisis. What are your thoughts on how colleges handled the COVID-19 crisis? What about how your employer handled the crisis? What about the state of Massachusetts or even the Federal Government.

The given data set contains the amount of time(in minutes) students in an online course spent studying an assignment in a certain semester. According to the historical study, the mean time students would spend on this section nationwide is 95 minutes. While a researcher thinks that this semester student might be using more time. Use ? = 0.05 level of significance. Keep at least three decimal places for numerical answers.

(1) State the null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis for this researcher.

(2) Find the test statistic.

(3) Use critical value approach OR p-value approach to test the hypothesis. (If you use by-hand computation, show your steps; if you use Excel, provide the output)

(4) State the decision, then in the context of the research, state the conclusion.