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Below are the average heights for American boys in 1990. Age (years) Height (cm) birth 50.8...

Below are the average heights for American boys in 1990.

Age (years) Height (cm)
birth 50.8
2 83.8
3 91.4
5 106.6
7 119.3
10 137.1
14 157.5

d) Calculate the least squares line. Put the equation in the form of: ŷ = a + bx. (Round your answers to three decimal places.)


ŷ =____+____x

e) Find the correlation coefficient r. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)


r =_____

f) Find the estimated average height for a one-year-old. (Use your equation from part (d). Round your answer to one decimal place.)

_____cm

Find the estimated average height for a eleven-year-old. (Use your equation from part (d). Round your answer to two decimal places.)

_____cm

i) Use the least squares line to estimate the average height for a fifty-four-year-old man. (Use your equation from part (d). Round your answer to one decimal place.)

_____cm

f) What is the slope of the least squares (best-fit) line? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)

_____

Interpret the slope. (Round your answer to three decimal places.)

As age increases by one year, the average height _____ by _____ centimeters.

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____ 5. Malignant tumor that develops from bone marrow and occurs most commonly in adolescent boys...

____ 5. Malignant tumor that develops from bone marrow and occurs most commonly in adolescent boys

____6. Metabolic disease that is a form of acute arthritis characterized by excessive uric acid in blood and around the joints

____ 7. Rupture of the nucleus pulposus between two vertebrae

____ 8. Skeletal disease affecting older adults; also called osteitis deformans

____ 9. Chronic, systemic disease characterized by inflammatory changes in joints and related structures, resulting in crippling deformities

____ 10. Fragment of a necrosed bone that has become separated from surrounding tissue

____ 11. Increased curvature of the thoracic region of the vertebral column, leading to a humpback posture

____ 12. Abnormal sideward curvature of the spine to the left or right

____ 13. Autoimmune neuromuscular disorder characterized by severe muscular weakness and progressive fatigue

____ 14. Damage incurred to the capsule of the shoulder joint that is reinforced by muscles and tendons

____ 15. Trauma to a muscle from overuse or excessive forcible stretch

____ 16. Puncture of a joint space with a needle to remove fluid

____ 17. Visual examination of the interior of a joint performed by inserting an endoscope through a small incision

____ 18. Forward curvature of the spine in the lumbar region, leading to a swayback posture

____ 19. Removal of necrosed bone that has become separated from surrounding tissue

____ 20. Spasmodic contraction of neck muscles, causing stiffness and twisting; also called wryneck



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Is a high school building an asset or is it a liability? If it is neither,...

Is a high school building an asset or is it a liability? If it is neither, how should the cost be recorded? How is a high school reported in fund financial statements? How is the same high school reported in government-wide financial statements? Is the current method we use for government accounting the right approach to the case? What is a different approach other than the current method we can use for government accounting?  

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What is the Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of spending $120,000...

What is the Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of spending $120,000 today on law school assuming you made $50,000/year before going to law school and $55,000/year for the next 35 years after law school? Assume you could invest this money elsewhere and earn 13%? with financial calculator

answer NPV = ($82,072.14); IRR = 2.26%

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Employer Swifty Cleaners employs many high school students after school hours and weekends to work the customer counter.

Employer Swifty Cleaners employs many high school students after school hours and weekends to work the customer counter. During the busy holiday season Swifty cleaners has the high school workers working over 40 hours per week. However, it has come to the the students' attention that they are not receiving overtime pay when the regular full time employees who work a variety of cleaning and customer counter functions are receiving overtime pay when working over 40 hour per week. Is Employer Swifty required to pay these part time high school workers overtime in any particular week?

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Assume all data is normally distributed unless otherwise stated. Please show all steps of the work....

Assume all data is normally distributed unless otherwise stated. Please show all steps of the work.

The use of both alcohol and tobacco by high school seniors has declined in the last 30 years. Alcohol use is down from 36.7 to 20.4%, and the use of cigarettes by high school seniors has decreased from 68.2 to 43.1%. A random sample of 300 high school seniors from a large region indicated that 82% had NOT consumed any alcohol during the 30 days prior to the survey. At the 0.05 level of significance, test the claim that the use of alcohol by high school seniors has decreased from 20.4%.

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. At a large factory, the employees were surveyed and classified according to their level of...

. At a large factory, the employees were surveyed and classified according to their level of education and whether they smoked. The data are shown in the table below:

smoking habit not high school graduates high school graduate college graduate Graduate Level
smoke 17 20 18 10
Do not smoke 15 32 27 19

If an employee is selected at random, find these probabilities.

a. The employee smokes, given that he or she graduated from high school.

b. Given that the employee did not graduate from high school, he or she is not a smoker.

c. The employee does not smoke and has a graduate level degree (MS or PhD) or is a college graduate.

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Target Corporation is the second-largest discount store retailer in the United States, behind Walmart, and a...

Target Corporation is the second-largest discount store retailer in the United States, behind Walmart, and a component of the S&P 500 Index. Founded by George Dayton and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the company was originally named Good fellow Dry Goods in June 1902 before being renamed the Dayton's Dry Goods Company in 1903 and later the Dayton Company in 1910. The first Target store opened in Roseville, Minnesota in 1962 while the parent company was renamed the Dayton Corporation in 1967. It became the Dayton-Hudson Corporation after merging with the J.L. Hudson Company in 1969 and held ownership of several department store chains including Dayton's, Hudson's, Marshall Field's, and Mervyn's. Target established itself as the highest-earning division of the Dayton-Hudson Corporation in the 1970s; it began expanding the store nationwide in the 1980s and introduced new store formats under the Target brand in the 1990s. The company has found success as a cheap-chic player in the industry. The parent company was renamed the Target Corporation in 2000 and divested itself of its last department store chains in 2004. It suffered from a massive and highly publicized security breach of customer credit card data and the failure of its short-lived Canadian subsidiary in the early 2010s but experienced revitalized success with its expansion in urban markets within the United States. As of 2017, Target operates 1,834 stores throughout the United States. Their retail formats include the discount store Target, the hypermarket Super Target, and "flexible format" stores previously named City Target and Target Express before being consolidated under the Target branding. Target is often recognized for its emphasis on "the needs of its younger, image-conscious shoppers," whereas its rival Walmart more heavily relies on its strategy of "always low prices. Target Corporation decide to start its discount store in Saudi Arabia. The Target management hired you as Marketing Manager for its Saudi Arabia operation. You have to establish marketing department starting from the Analysis of market, formulate overall marketing goals, objectives, strategies and tactics within the context of an organization's business, mission, and goals designing and planning the entire function. 1. To establish the marketing function of Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia, you have to formulate the followings: a. Vision b. Mission c. Business objective. d. Product and type of services. ? 2. Develop a marketing Plan for Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia. Define the SWOT analysis for Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia. 3. Analyze the Micro and Macro environment of the Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia. 4. How Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia will establish, develop, and enhance mutually beneficial relationships with customers? Discuss all the activities to establish, develop, and maintain customer sales? 5. Identify the various consumer decision processes for the Target Corporation customer? 6. How will you establish the market research for making better decision to establish and enhance the marketing? 7. How Target Corporation, KSA will evaluate market segments and choose the best ones to serve? How it will create value propositions to meet the requirements of target customers? 8. How Target Corporation, KSA will manage all of their products and services? What are the steps in the best development process for new products?

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Target Corporation is the second-largest discount store retailer in the United States, behind Walmart, and a...

Target Corporation is the second-largest discount store retailer in the United States, behind Walmart, and a component of the S&P 500 Index. Founded by George Dayton and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the company was originally named Good fellow Dry Goods in June 1902 before being renamed the Dayton's Dry Goods Company in 1903 and later the Dayton Company in 1910. The first Target store opened in Roseville, Minnesota in 1962 while the parent company was renamed the Dayton Corporation in 1967. It became the Dayton-Hudson Corporation after merging with the J.L. Hudson Company in 1969 and held ownership of several department store chains including Dayton's, Hudson's, Marshall Field's, and Mervyn's. Target established itself as the highest-earning division of the Dayton-Hudson Corporation in the 1970s; it began expanding the store nationwide in the 1980s and introduced new store formats under the Target brand in the 1990s. The company has found success as a cheap-chic player in the industry. The parent company was renamed the Target Corporation in 2000 and divested itself of its last department store chains in 2004. It suffered from a massive and highly publicized security breach of customer credit card data and the failure of its short-lived Canadian subsidiary in the early 2010s but experienced revitalized success with its expansion in urban markets within the United States. As of 2017, Target operates 1,834 stores throughout the United States. Their retail formats include the discount store Target, the hypermarket Super Target, and "flexible format" stores previously named City Target and Target Express before being consolidated under the Target branding. Target is often recognized for its emphasis on "the needs of its younger, image-conscious shoppers," whereas its rival Walmart more heavily relies on its strategy of "always low prices. Target Corporation decide to start its discount store in Saudi Arabia. The Target management hired you as Marketing Manager for its Saudi Arabia operation. You have to establish marketing department starting from the Analysis of market, formulate overall marketing goals, objectives, strategies and tactics within the context of an organization's business, mission, and goals designing and planning the entire function.

Q is :

1. To establish the marketing function of Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia, you have to formulate the followings:

a. Vision

b. Mission

c. Business objective.

d. Product and type of services. ?

2. Develop a marketing Plan for Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia. Define the SWOT analysis for Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia.

3. Analyze the Micro and Macro environment of the Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia.

4. How Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia will establish, develop, and enhance mutually beneficial relationships with customers? Discuss all the activities to establish, develop, and maintain customer sales?

5. Identify the various consumer decision processes for the Target Corporation customer?

6. How will you establish the market research for making better decision to establish and enhance the marketing?

7. How Target Corporation, KSA will evaluate market segments and choose the best ones to serve? How it will create value propositions to meet the requirements of target customers?

8. How Target Corporation, KSA will manage all of their products and services? What are the steps in the best development process for new products?

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Target Corporation is the second-largest discount store retailer in the United States, behind Walmart, and a...

Target Corporation is the second-largest discount store retailer in the United States, behind Walmart, and a component of the S&P 500 Index. Founded by George Dayton and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the company was originally named Good fellow Dry Goods in June 1902 before being renamed the Dayton's Dry Goods Company in 1903 and later the Dayton Company in 1910. The first Target store opened in Roseville, Minnesota in 1962 while the parent company was renamed the Dayton Corporation in 1967. It became the Dayton-Hudson Corporation after merging with the J.L. Hudson Company in 1969 and held ownership of several department store chains including Dayton's, Hudson's, Marshall Field's, and Mervyn's.

Target established itself as the highest-earning division of the Dayton-Hudson Corporation in the 1970s; it began expanding the store nationwide in the 1980s and introduced new store formats under the Target brand in the 1990s. The company has found success as a cheap-chic player in the industry. The parent company was renamed the Target Corporation in 2000 and divested itself of its last department store chains in 2004. It suffered from a massive and highly publicized security breach of customer credit card data and the failure of its short-lived Canadian subsidiary in the early 2010s but experienced revitalized success with its expansion in urban markets within the United States.

As of 2017, Target operates 1,834 stores throughout the United States. Their retail formats include the discount store Target, the hypermarket Super Target, and "flexible format" stores previously named City Target and Target Express before being consolidated under the Target branding. Target is often recognized for its emphasis on "the needs of its younger, image-conscious shoppers," whereas its rival Walmart more heavily relies on its strategy of "always low prices.

Target Corporation decide to start its discount store in Saudi Arabia. The Target management hired you as Marketing Manager for its Saudi Arabia operation. You have to establish marketing department starting from the Analysis of market, formulate overall marketing goals, objectives, strategies and tactics within the context of an organization's business, mission, and goals designing and planning the entire function.

To establish the marketing function of Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia, you have to formulate the followings:

Vision

Mission

Business objective.

Product and type of services.   

Develop a marketing Plan for Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia. Define the SWOT analysis for Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia.

Analyze the Micro and Macro environment of the Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia.

How Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia will establish, develop, and enhance mutually beneficial relationships with customers? Discuss all the activities to establish, develop, and maintain customer sales?

Identify the various consumer decision processes for the Target Corporation customer?

How will you establish the market research for making better decision to establish and enhance the marketing?   

How Target Corporation, KSA will evaluate market segments and choose the best ones to serve? How it will create value propositions to meet the requirements of target customers?

How Target Corporation, KSA will manage all of their products and services? What are the steps in the best development process for new products?

Assignment Workload:

The word count for this assignment must be between 2500 to 3000 words.

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