he mayor of a town has proposed a plan for the construction of an adjoining bridge. A political study took a sample of 1000 voters in the town and found that 57% of the residents favored construction. Using the data, a political strategist wants to test the claim that the percentage of residents who favor construction is above 53%. Make the decision to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis at the 0.20 level.
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Assume you are a shareholder for a manufacturing company in a small town far from your home. Would you be willing to trade polluting the environment in that one town for an increase in firm profits? Explain for me why or why not. If the CEO of the company decided not to pollute the environment and profits decreased as a result, how should the firm market that decision to you and other stakeholders? What info is needed?
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Case Study #1 – Which Insurance is best?
For each scenario below, pick the health insurance that would best meet their needs and provide your justification. The insurance options you have to choose from is provided here in the 2020 Benefits Guide.
Scenario 1: Marc Jacob, who lives in South Florida just got a new job and he needs to enroll in health insurance. He has 90 days to make his selection. Marc is a 30-year-old male, with no underlying health conditions. He does travel for his job. He usually travels for about a week and then works at the office when he is not traveling. What health insurance plan should he enroll in that would provide him with the best coverage? Thoroughly provide your justification and keep in mind the items listed below.
Scenario 2: Arya Stark is married with 4-year-old twin boys and lives with her family in South Florida. She recently got a new job as a Director of Operations of a large healthcare organization. She has 90 days to make her healthcare insurance selection. She does travel on occasion for business, but she also takes family trips during the summer when her kids are out of school. Her husband is a diabetic and also a cancer survivor, but herself and her kids are healthy individuals with no underlying health conditions. The twins are active with sports and are involved with swimming, martial arts and gymnastics. What health insurance plan should she enroll in that would provide her and her family with the best coverage? Thoroughly provide your justification and keep in mind the items listed below.
Have a list of references in correct format at the end of the paper.
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Here is a short history of the Eastman Kodak company (adapted from Wikipedia):
Kodak was founded by George Eastman (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and Henry A. Strong (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. on September 4, 1888. During most of the 20th century (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film used in cameras. The cameras were used to take photos, and once the film roll was filled with pictures it was taken to a drugstore or someplace else such as a kiosk in a mall to be developed and the photos printed on paper stock.
From the time of its founding, Kodak followed the razor-and blades-strategy (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. of selling inexpensive cameras while making large margins from consumables, namely the film, chemicals, and photo paper. As late as 1976, Kodak commanded 90% of film sales and 85% of camera sales in the U.S.
Kodak began to struggle financially in the late 1990s as a result of the decline in sales of photographic film and some believe because of its slowness in transitioning to digital photography (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. In 2012 Kodak filed for bankruptcy and announced that it would stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames. It also announced its intention to sell its photographic film (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and photo kiosk operations.
Task:
In the article "Marketing Myopia," Levitt discusses the crucial distinction between a “market-based” and “product-based” definition of the business a firm is in. Using these concepts, briefly describe the business frame that Kodak appeared to use up until 2012. Discuss the value (and limitations) of Kodak adopting the other frame. Needs to be less than 250 words.
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19-28: Theoretical Probabilities. Use the theoretical method to determine the probability of the following outcomes and events. State any assumptions that you make.
19. Tossing two coins and getting either no tails or one tail
20. Rolling a single die and getting an even number (2, 4, or 6)
21. Drawing a king from a standard deck of cards
22. Drawing a red card (heart or diamond) from a standard deck of cards
23. Randomly selecting a two-child family with two boys
24. Randomly selecting a three-child family with exactly two boys
25. A randomly selected person has a birthday in April.
26. A randomly selected person has a birthday in a month beginning with J.
27. Sharing a birthday with another person when you both have birthdays in December
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The popularity of computer, video, online, and virtual reality games has raised concerns about their ability to negatively impact youth, although the existing literature has been inconsistent. The data in this exercise are based on a recent survey of 14- to 18-year-olds in Connecticut high schools. Here are the grade distributions of boys who have and have not played video games:
Grade Average
A's and B's C's D's and F's
Played Games 740 454 197
Never Played Games 209 148 84
It appears that boys who have played video games have better grades than those who have never played video games. Give percents to back up this claim. (Round your answers to one decimal place.)
| A's and B's | C's | D's and F's | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Played games | % | % | % |
| Never played games | % | % | % |
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The National Health Statistics Reports described a study in which a sample of 33 one-year-old baby boys were weighed. Their mean weight was 25.4 pounds with standard deviation 5.3 pounds. A pediatrician claims that the mean weight of one-year-old boys is greater than 25 pounds. Do the data provide convincing evidence that the pediatrician's claim is true? Use the =α0.05 level of significance and the P-value method with the TI-84 Plus calculator.
1) State the appropriate null and alternate hypotheses. H0=, H1= This hypothesis test is a (left tailed, right tailed or two tailed) test
2) Compute the P-value. Round the answer to four decimal places.
3) Determine whether to reject H0 (reject or not reject)
4) There (is or is not) enough evidence to conclude that the mean weight is 25.4 lbs.
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Tony has been referred to a mental health provider to assess for depression. Tony shows a mental health provider assessing Tony for depression and suicidality. The provider must find a way to get beyond female--oriented ways of asking about depression to help Tony talk about his feelings. Adolescent males often do not endorse sadness, depression, crying, or hopelessness. They may experience frustration, anxiety, irritability, and anger, and may have somatic concerns. Asking about these symptoms often provides a pathway for boys to talk more about their feelings, or to at least indicate their level of distress. Being able to assess adolescent boys for depression and suicidality is vital, given the rate of completed suicides among males.
Identify things that the patient said that would be of concern regarding depression and anxiety. What more questions would you ask the patient to gather additional information?
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Explain applying for a position that I am currently working as a para-educator, however, I am hired as an adult assistant. We are a new school short staff so I am needed to do more of the Para-educator's work alongside taking care of my student. How do I explain that showing I am qualified to do the new posting of Para-educator?
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As per a published report…” In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Nokia was the global leader in mobile phones.
With the arrival of the Internet, other mobile companies started understanding how data, not voice, was the future of communication. Nokia didn’t grasp the concept of software and kept focusing on hardware because the management feared to alienate current users if they changed too much.”
List and briefly explain 2 factors that might have been overlooked by the business(es), referred to in the case.
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