The author of an introductory textbook on business statistics completed a study using 30 undergraduate statistics students selected at random from a large university. The students were given a comprehensive test that took them an average of 90 minutes to complete with a sample standard deviation of 15 minutes. Construct and interpret the 90% confidence interval for the population mean time it would take for all statistics students at the university to complete this test.

the Elements of Style, read the following excerpts -- both from the same author, George Orwell, and explain the different stylistic forms he uses in each.

Excerpt from 1984

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

Excerpt from "Shooting an Elephant"

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter.

The textbooks needed for the class are: "Government 10 (GOVT 10): (9th or 10th edition)" Author: Sidlow

Read chapter 1 of the textbook

1. Is it possible to have liberty if there is no order in society? Validate and explain.

2. Why does the textbook state that government is involved in one's life from birth to death?

3. What does this mean? Give an example.

The author makes a compelling argument why we should get rid of the tipped salary of $2.13 per hour for tipped employees. What do you think of the author's argument? Do you think we should get rid of the special salary for tipped employees? Do you think the salary originally originated from discriminatory practices? How would your resolve the issue?

Critical Question: What are the descriptive assumptions? find important assumptions made by the author. first to determine the conclusion and the reasons.

Passage: Should it be legal for newspaper and television reporters to refuse to reveal their confidential sources? Indeed it should. The reporter-informant relationship is, after all, similar to those of priest and penitent, lawyer and client, physician and patient---all of which have a degree of privacy under the law. Moreover, if that relationship were not protected, the sources of information needed by the public would dry up.

The Life of Pi

1. What does the author tell us in the introduction? What expectations does it set?

2. What religions does Pi practice? How does he find each? How does he describe each? What are some reactions to his multi-religious practices?

3. Explain how Pi’s twin concerns of theology and zoology are illustrated by Mr. Kumar and Mr. Kumar or the sloth.

4. Reflect on what story means to you. What is “the better story” according to Pi? How does this relate to religion, to Pi’s life in general, and to truth?

5. The “official report” gathered by the Japanese investigators is supposed to be the “truth” but is filled with doubt.What does this suggest? ****Please keep in mind that these questions are to be based on the novel NOT the movie. The movie is very different from the novel. Thank you.   : ) ****

Douglas Adams (1952–2001), author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, compared humans to a puddle of water as a way of illustrating anthropocentric thinking, or what he called “the vain conceit” of humans.

He wrote: "Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in. It fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact, it fits me staggeringly well. It must have been made to have me in it.” Even as the sun comes out and the puddle gets smaller, it still frantically hangs on to the idea that everything is going to be all right; that the world was made for it since it is so well suited to it."

1. A very well-known author, Dan Green was visiting a friend to talk about topics for a new book. The friend, Mr. Snoop said that he had been at a party when he heard about something called the Da Vinci Code. Mr. Snoop told Green all about the Da Vinci Code. Green was very excited and rushed to his office. Over the next two days, Green wrote a book called the La Vinci Code. After the book was released to stores around the country, Green sold all rights to BS Studio. BS Studio made a TV movie from the book, which changed the location setting from Paris to Fullerton and changed the character names.Discuss all legal issues

X is an independent standard uniform random variable X ∼ Uniform(0, 1)

Y is an independent standard uniform random variable Y ∼ Uniform(0, 1)

U = min(X, Y )

V = max(X, Y )

Find the correlation coefficient of V and U , ρ(U, V) = Correlation(U, V).

What is Cramer's V for each of the following values for the chi-square test for independence? (Round your answers to two decimal places.)

(a) X2 = 3.95, n = 50, dfsmaller = 1 V =

(b) X2 = 8.81, n = 110, dfsmaller = 2 V =

(c) X2 = 11.62, n = 180, dfsmaller = 3 V =