Directions: Meet with a leader from a business, church, community group, government organization, etc. and spend time asking them questions about their approach to leadership to the mission/vision/value statement of their organization. Inquire how they remain focused yet relevant to changing external and internal events. Get some thoughts from them on how they manage win/win situations to make positive and meaningful impact.

Then, respond to the following prompts in response to the leader you interviewed:
• Identify at least 2 ways the leader you interviewed applies their personal or business mission to their daily operations.
• Explain how the leader you interviewed seeks to find win/win situations for their organization. Give at least 2 specific examples.
• Identify at least 2 specific things you learned from the leader you interviewed that you can incorporate and apply to your own life and explain why.
• Identify at least 1 specific thing that you learned from the leader you interviewed that you would be less likely to incorproate into your own life and explain why.
• Your paper must be 2 pages in length, use proper grammar, and follow APA guidelines.

Along with information in Balswick’s and Balswick’s Chapter 3, write about how you think the church can support singles select life-long mates in God-honoring ways.

Which option(s) appeal to you?

Why?

Discuss the concepts of assimilation and accommodation in regards to differentiation and Trinitarian relationality in Balswick and Balswick (2014).

Does Chapman’s idea of unity support or conflict with Balswick’s and Balswick’s ideas of the Trinitarian relationship and differentiation? Support your answer.

Describe the social exchange theory in regards to adaptability and authority in marriage.

Do you agree that marriages can thrive if rewards outweigh costs?

Very Fancy Foods hires homeless workers from the local church and the area shelters to assist in the packaging of its gourmet frozen meals. This procession is all done by hand, at a cost of $60,000 per year (which would be eliminated with the machine.) A machine is available that could be used in place of the homeless workers. The machine would cost $140,000 and have a 10-year useful life. It would require an operator at an annual cost of $28,000. Annual maintenance costs will be $8,000 in years 1, 2, 3, 4 and then climb to $12,500 in years 5-10. The machine will be sold in 10 years at an expected price of $50,000. For tax purposes, the company computes depreciation deductions assuming zero salvage value and uses straight-line depreciation. The machine would be depreciated over 7 years years. Management requires a 9% after-tax return on all equipment purchases. The company’s tax rate is 20%. Use this information to answer the questions below.

Compute the machine’s net present value and internal rate of return.

Refer to the Baseball 2016 data, which reports information on the 2016 Major League Baseball season. Let attendance be the dependent variable and total team salary be the independent variable. Determine the regression equation and answer the following questions.

Draw a scatter diagram. From the diagram, does there seem to be a direct relationship between the two variables?

What is the expected attendance for a team with a salary of $100.0 million?

If the owners pay an additional $30 million, how many more people could they expect to attend?

At the .05 significance level, can we conclude that the slope of the regression line is positive? Conduct the appropriate test of hypothesis.

What percentage of the variation in attendance is accounted for by salary?

Determine the correlation between attendance and team batting average and between attendance and team ERA. Which is stronger? Conduct an appropriate test of hypothesis for each set of variables.

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A sample of 12 of bags of Calbie Chips were weighed (to the nearest gram), and listed here as follows.

219, 226, 217, 224, 223, 216, 221, 228, 215, 229, 225, 229 Find a 95% confidence interval for the mean mass of bags of Calbie Chips.

Find a 95% confidence interval for the mean mass of bags of Calbie Chips

2. (b) Professor GeniusAtCalculus has two lecture sections (A and B) of the same 4th year Advanced Calculus (AMA 4301) course in Semester 2. She wants to investigate whether section A students maybe ”smarter” than section B students by comparing their perfor- mances in the midterm test. A random sample of 12 students were taken from section A, with mean midterm test score of 78.8 and standard deviation 8.5; and a random sample of 9 students were taken from section B, with mean midterm test score of 86 and standard deviation 9.3. Assume the population standard deviations of midterm test scores for both sections are the same. Construct the 90% confidence interval for the difference in midterm test scores of the two sections. Based on the sample midterm test scores from the two sections, can Professor GeniusAtCalculus conclude that there is any evidence that one section of students are ”smarter” than the other section? Justify your conclusions.

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3. (c) The COVID-19 (coronavirus) mortality rate of a country is defined as the ratio of the number of deaths due to COVID-19 divided by the number of (confirmed) cases of COVID-19 in that country. Suppose we want to investigate if there is any difference between the COVID-19 mortality rate in the US and the UK. On April 18, 2020, out of a sample of 671,493 cases of COVID-19 in the US, there was 33,288 deaths; and out of a sample of 109,754 cases of COVID-19 in the UK, there was 14,606 deaths. What is the 92% confidence interval in the true difference in the mortality rates between the two countries? What can you conclude about the difference in the mortality rates between the US and the UK? Justify your conclusions.

fidence interval for the mean mass of bags of Calbie Chips. [9 marks] (b) Professor GeniusAtCalculus has two lecture sections (A and B) of the same 4th year Advanced Calculus (AMA 4301) course in Semester 2. She wants to investigate whether section A students maybe ”smarter” than section B students by comparing their perfor- mances in the midterm test. A random sample of 12 students were taken from section A, with mean midterm test score of 78.8 and standard deviation 8.5; and a random sample of 9 students were taken from section B, with mean midterm test score of 86 and standard deviation 9.3. Assume the population standard deviations of midterm test scores for both sections are the same. Construct the 90% confidence interval for the difference in midterm test scores of the two sections. Based on the sample midterm test scores from the two sections, can Professor GeniusAtCalculus conclude that there is any evidence that one section of students are ”smarter” than the other section? Justify your conclusions. [8 marks] (c) The COVID-19 (coronavirus) mortality rate of a country is defined as the ratio of the number of deaths due to COVID-19 divided by the number of (confirmed) cases of COVID-19 in that country. Suppose we want to investigate if there is any difference between the COVID-19 mortality rate in the US and the UK. On April 18, 2020, out of a sample of 671,493 cases of COVID-19 in the US, there was 33,288 deaths; and out of a sample of 109,754 cases of COVID-19 in the UK, there was 14,606 deaths. What is the 92% confidence interval in the true difference in the mortality rates between the two countries? What can you conclude about the difference in the mortality rates between the US and the UK? Justify your conclusions.

As part of the requirements by the university for an academic degree, final year students
are required to undertake a research and write a report called a dissertation. Unfortunately,
some students joined at the very last part of the semester and hence missed the introductory and foundation lectures. One of them approached you for assistance on what research is about and to deepen his/ her knowledge on the following issues. Briefly help this new
student on these to be able to also carry out a successful and sound research;

a. The definition of research. Briefly explain to him/her.
b. Any two occasions on which the term research is wrongly used according to
Walliman (2005).
c. The processes that he/she must go through to successfully carry out a sound
research.
d. Any two qualities of a quality research
e. Any three qualities that he /she should exhibit if he/she desires to be a quality
researcher.
f. The five common mistakes that researchers make; just list them.
g. Given that the student is also the manager of a firm, inform him on when a business
research should be conducted.

2. Indicate whether the following statements are true or not true and justify your response;
a. The sole purpose of research is to solve a problem.
b. Research Methodology and Research Methods mean and imply the same thing.
c. Systematic sampling involves choosing respondents based on reason that the
respondents sampled gives you the right information.

d. It is the research problem and questions that drives the title but not the reverse.

3. Past research indicates important gender differences in the use of networks (Hanson and
Blake 2009), and suggests that male SME owners are more likely to successfully network
and benefit from networks-driven performance in contrast to female SME owners (Watson 2012). In particular, as many women come to self-employment from domestic or nonmanagement background (Cromie and Birley 1992), and thus are likely to have previously

Note that Walmart's fiscal year starts the first week of February. This means that when analyzing the data, week 41 is actually week 45(41+4 weeks for January) in 2003 or the beginning of November 2003. Also, week 52 is actually week 4 (52+4 weeks for January 2003 minus 52 weeks for 2003) in 2004 or the end of January 2004.

1. Identify spikes(outliers) in the data where extreme (high or low) sales values occur and correlate these spikes with actual calendar dates in 2003 or 2004 and with any holidays or special events or abnormally slow periods that may occur during these periods.

41. Ford Company Retained Earnings increased $20,000 during the year and the Company paid dividends of $4,000. What was the net income (loss) for the year?

43. Missouri Magazine Publishing Company sells magazine subscriptions on an annual basis covering 12 issues. Subscriptions totaling $24,000 were sold in November, and the first magazines are delivered in December. The total amount collected was recorded in Unearned Magazine Revenues. The adjusting entry required at December 31 would include:

49. Pal Company made an advance payment of $3,500 for seven months' rent on November 1, 2004 and debited an asset account. The December 31 adjusting entry for rent expense should be:

52. Office equipment was purchased on December 1, 2004, for $3,000 and has an estimated useful life of five years and no residual value. The adjusting entry required at the end of December, 2004 includes a:

The 2001 recession ended in November 2001, but the perception of "bad economic times" lingered into 2002 and 2003. What evidence do these graphs provide concerning the lingering perception of a recession? Hint: contrast the performance of the unemployment rate and the level of real GDP during the period from 2001 through 2003.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is a federal government response to corporate ethics problem. In your opinion, and using support (citations) from your readings, does this Act do enough to help solve ethical dilemma among public corporations in the US? If not, what other actions would be appropriate?