In 1997, Scottish researchers captured newspaper headlines when they announced the birth of Dolly, a lamb cloned from an adult sheep by nuclear transplantation. These researchers cultured mammary (nuclear-donor) cells in a nutrient-poor medium and then fused these cells with enucleated sheep eggs. The resulting diploid cells divided to form early embryos, which were implanted into surrogate mothers. Out of several hundred implanted embryos, one successfully completed normal development, and Dolly was born. Later analyses showed that Dolly’s chromosomal DNA was identical to that of the nucleus donor. Numerous other animals have been cloned thus far. In fact, the science fiction plot of Jurassic Park, revolves around a theme park showcasing cloned dinosaurs. These dinosaurs were cloned from DNA found in mosquitoes that had sucked dinosaur blood and had been trapped and preserved in amber.

In this discussion, explain (in 250-300 words) why you think it is possible to recreate dinosaurs by this technique. (PLEASE TYPE & INCLUDE 1 - 2 SOURCES, NO DIAGRAMS)

Case Study 8.1

In February 2017 the price of a daily pass to drive on a Volusia County beach was $10, and at that price 26,467 daily passes were sold. In February 2018 the price of a daily pass rose to $20, and at that price the number of daily passes sold dropped to 17,994.

1. What is the elasticity of demand for the daily pass? Is the demand elastic or inelastic? Explain the meaning of your answer in the context of this problem. Is revenue increasing or decreasing?
2. The County Council may consider raising the price of a daily pass to $30 next year. Based on elasticity of demand, should the Council consider another increase? Please justify your answer.

Case Study 8.2

Demand for tickets to a theme park, based on average daily attendance, is given by           Dp=-7.7p2+495.8p+20,000, where p is the daily admission price. The current admission price is $75, but the park is considering raising the price to $80.

3. At $75, what is the elasticity of demand for the tickets? Is the demand elastic or inelastic? Based on elasticity of demand, should the price be increased?
4. What should the ticket price be for maximum revenue?

Question:5

1. What is meant by the standard error of the mean?
2. What is meant by a Type I and a Type II error?
3. What is the difference between a one and two tail test?

4. In September 2019, a Travel Agent used a random sample of 36 holiday makers to find out the average cost per person of a one week holiday in Queen Elizabeth National Park. The following information was found:

September 2019

          Mean                       $372.40

         Standard deviation $26.10

         Sample size 36

In the previous year the average cost of each holiday was $356.20.

1. Test whether the cost of a one week holiday to Queen Elizabeth National Park has increased significantly since the previous year.
2. The company based its views on customer satisfaction from the letters it receives. In the previous year, 68% of the letters it received were of a positive nature.

The company wishes to adopt a more scientific approach to estimating customer satisfaction.

What sample size would be needed to estimate the proportion of customers’ views to within 2% of the true figure at the 95% confidence limit and Interval                                  

A study was conducted to see whether two types of cars, A and B, took the same time to parallel park. Seven drivers were randomly obtained and the time required for each of them to parallel park (in seconds) each of the 2 cars was measured. The results are listed below in order of driver (e.g. the first listing for A and B are driver 1; the second listing driver 2; etc.) Car A: 19, 21.8, 16.8, 24.2, 22, 34.7, 23.8 Car B: 17.8, 20.2, 16.2, 41.4, 21.4, 28.4, 22.7

A. Explain why this is a paired test and not a two sample test.

B. Test whether the there is a difference in mean parallel parking time of the two cars at a 0.05 level of significance. Include the hypotheses, the test statistic, the p-value, test decision and conclusion in the context of the problem.

C. Do you believe the test results are valid? Explain.

D. What test decision error could you have made and provide an explanation of this error in context of the problem. E. Include a copy of your R-code and test output.

1. At a particular amusement park, most of the live characters have height requirements of a minimum of 57 in. and a maximum of 63 in. A survey found that​ women's heights are normally distributed with a mean of 62.4 in. and a standard deviation of 3.6 in. The survey also found that​ men's heights are normally distributed with a mean of 68.3 in. and a standard deviation of 3.6 in.
   
   Part 1:
   Find the percentage of men meeting the height requirement.
   
   The percentage of men who meet the height requirement is ____?____.
   ​(Round answer to nearest hundredth of a percent - i.e. 23.34%)
   
   What does the result suggest about the genders of the people who are employed as characters at the amusement​ park?
   Since most men___?___ the height​ requirement, it likely that most of the characters are ___?___ .
   (Use "meet" or "do not meet" for the first blank and "men" or "women" for the second blank.)
   
   Part 2: I was able to solve part 2 on my own.
   If the height requirements are changed to exclude only the tallest​ 50% of men and the shortest​ 5% of​ men, what are the new height​ requirements?
   The new height requirements are a minimum of 62.4 in. and a maximum of 68.3 in.
   ​(Round to one decimal place as​ needed.)

1. Draw the decision tables for all the problems below
2. For the decision tables above, reduce the tables if possible.

Problems

1. A month is to be represented as an integer. A valid month is in the range of 1..12. An integer < 1 is invalid, or an integer > 12 is invalid. Consider how this can be simplified or reduced.
2. An employee is either hourly or salaried. An hourly employee is paid by calculating an hourly wage and an hourly employee that works more than 40 hours is paid overtime. An hourly employee that works less than 40 hours must produce an absence report. A salaried employee can work any number of hours.
3. A new program to determine parking rates is to be developed. Users will select (from a dropdown) the classification of the vehicle owner (faculty/staff or student), the location of the parking (garage or open lot) and the type of vehicle (large or small).  Students with a small vehicle pay $250.00 in a lot and $350.00 in a garage.  Students with a large vehicle may park in a lot for $400.00.  Faculty/staff may park small vehicles anywhere for $150.00 and large vehicles in a lot for $200.00.  Large vehicles are not allowed in the garage.

The management of Arturo’s Water Park is developing an advertising campaign to communicate the intended message, “Your kids will love you more if you take them to Arturo’s Water Park.” (a) For a print ad in this advertising campaign, suggest some wording for the copy in the ad. Then, describe your suggestions for the artwork in the ad. Which of these two parts of the ad – the copy or the artwork – would likely be more effective in communicating the intended message? Use course material to justify your reasoning. (b) For the print ad you described in Part (a), describe a pretest that would be appropriate. Explain why pretesting is important in advertising. (c) If Arturo’s management uses market segmentation to target this print ad, what is the segmentation variable it should use? Explain your reasoning. (d) Design an experiment to test whether or not this print ad is effective. Describe the test group and the control group of the experiment, and describe the time course of events. What is the dependent variable in your experiment? Explain why both the test group and the control group are necessary for this experiment to have validity.

You are studying the reaction of iodine with a ketone to produce iodoketone with the following equation:

            I₂ + ketone → iodoketone + H⁺ + I^-

Data for initial rates and concentrations are given in the table below:

-d[I₂]/dt                        [I₂]                   [ketone]                        [H⁺]

mol^-1 L s^-1                     M                     M                                 M

7 x 10^-5                         5 x 10^-4             0.2                               1.0 x 10^-2

7 x 10^-5                         3 x 10^-4             0.2                               1.0 x 10^-2

1.7 x 10^-5                      5 x 10^-4             0.5                               1.0 x 10^-2

5.4 x 10^-5                      5 x 10^-4             0.5                               3.2 x 10^-2

Calculate the average rate coefficient in te above question.

SYN 960 Business Government & Society

Albright College

Application Test #1

Read the following case below and then answer the questions following the case.

Case: A Brawl in Mickey’s Backyard

Outside City Hall in Anaheim, California—home to the theme park Disneyland—dozens

of protestors gathered in August 2007 to stage a skit. Wearing costumes to emphasize their

point, activists playing “Mickey Mouse” and the “evil queen” ordered a group of “Disney

workers” to “get out of town.” The amateur actors were there to tell the city council in a

dramatic fashion that they supported a developer’s plan to build affordable housing near

the world-famous theme park—a plan that Disney opposed.

“They want to make money, but they don’t care about the employees,” said Gabriel de

la Cruz, a banquet server at Disneyland. De la Cruz lived in a crowded one-bedroom apartment

near the park with his wife and two teenage children. “Rent is too high,” he said. “We

don’t have a choice to go some other place.”

The Walt Disney Company was one of the best-known media and entertainment companies

in the world. In Anaheim, the company operated the original Disneyland theme park,

the newer California Adventure, three hotels, and the Downtown Disney shopping district.

The California resort complex attracted 24 million visitors a year. The company as a whole

earned more than $35 billion in 2007, about $11 billion of which came from its parks and

resorts around the world, including those in California.

Walt Disney, the company’s founder, had famously spelled out the resort’s vision when

he said, “I don’t want the public to see the world they live in while they’re in Disneyland.

I want them to feel they’re in another world.”

Anaheim, located in Orange County, was a sprawling metropolis of 350,000 that had

grown rapidly with its tourism industry. In the early 1990s, the city had designated two square

miles adjacent to Disneyland as a special resort district, with all new development restricted

to serving tourist needs, and pumped millions of dollars into upgrading the area. In 2007, the

resort district—5 percent of Anaheim’s area—produced more than half its tax revenue.

Housing in Anaheim was expensive, and many of Disney’s 20,000 workers could not

afford to live there. The median home price in the community was more than $600,000,

and a one-bedroom apartment could rent for as much as $1,400 a month. Custodians at the

park earned around $23,000 a year; restaurant attendants around $14,000. Only 18 percent

of resort employees lived in Anaheim. Many of the rest commuted long distances by car

and bus to get to work.

The dispute playing out in front of City Hall had begun in 2005, when a local developer

called SunCal had arranged to buy a 26-acre site in the resort district. (The parcel was directly

across the street from land Disney considered a possible site for future expansion.)

SunCal’s plan was to build around 1,500 condominiums, with 15 percent of the units set

aside for below-market-rate rental apartments. Because the site was in the resort district,

the developer required special permission from the city council to proceed.

Affordable housing advocates quickly backed SunCal’s proposal. Some of the unions

representing Disney employees also supported the idea, as did other individuals and groups

drawn by the prospect of reducing long commutes, a contributor to the region’s air pollution.

Backers formed the Coalition to Defend and Protect Anaheim, declaring that “these

new homes would enable many . . . families to live near their places of work and thereby

reduce commuter congestion on our freeways.”

Disney, however, strenuously opposed SunCal’s plan, arguing that the land should be

used only for tourism-related development such as hotels and restaurants. “If one developer

is allowed to build residential in the resort area, others will follow,” a company

spokesperson said. “Anaheim and Orange County have to address the affordable housing

issue, but Anaheim also has to protect the resort area. It’s not an either/or.” In support of

Disney’s position, the chamber of commerce, various businesses in the resort district, and

some local government officials formed Save Our Anaheim Resort District to “protect our

Anaheim Resort District from non-tourism projects.” The group considered launching an

initiative to put the matter before the voters.

The five-person city council was split on the issue. One council member said that if

workers could not afford to live in Anaheim, “maybe they can move somewhere else . . .

where rents are cheaper.” But another disagreed, charging that Disney had shown “complete

disregard for the workers who make the resorts so successful.”

Sources: “Disneyland Balks at New Neighbors,” USA Today, April 3, 2007; “Housing Plan Turns Disney Grumpy,” The New

York Times, May 20, 2007; “In Anaheim, the Mouse Finally Roars,” Washington Post, August 6, 2007; and “Not in Mickey’s

Backyard,” Portfolio, December 2007.

1. Using Disney as the focal organization, identify all the relevant stakeholders to this case.

2. For each of the stakeholders above, clear explain their respective “interest” or claim to the situation using evidence from the case. Also, indicate if each stakeholder is in

favor of, or opposed to, SunCal’s proposed development.

3. What sources of power do each of the relevant stakeholders identified above have in this case?

4. Based on the information you have included in your stakeholder analysis/map, what do you believe is the socially responsible decision for Disney? Justify your solution by applying either the ownership theory of the firm or the stakeholder theory of the firm.

IM GETTING A ERROR MESSAGE :

if rentalCode == 'W' and averageMiles <= 900:
mileCharge = weeksRented * 100.00
else:

Collect Customer Data - Part 2

1. Collect Mileage information:

   Prompt: "Starting Odometer Reading:\n"

   Variable: odoStart = ?

   Prompt: "Ending Odometer Reading:\n"

   Variable: odoEnd = ?

   Add code to PRINT odoStart and odoEnd variables as well as the totalMiles to check your work.

   The following data will be used as input in the test:

   odoStart = 1234
   odoEnd = 2222
   

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   Customer Data Check 2

   In your rental_car.py file, add code to print out the two new variables you have collected input for:
   odoStart
   odoEnd
   totalMiles

   1. Prompt the user to input the starting odometer reading (expect type int from the user)
   2. Prompt the user to input the ending odometer reading (expect type int from the user)
      1. Test your code.

      2. import sys
         '''
         Section 1: Collect customer input
         '''
         #Add customer input 1 here, rentalCode = ?
         rentalCode = input("(B)udget, (D)aily, or (W)eekly rental?\n")
         print (rentalCode)
         #Collect Customer Data - Part 2

         #4)Collect Mileage information:
         #a)   Prompt the user to input the starting odometer reading and store it as the variable odoStart

         #Prompt -->"Starting Odometer Reading:\n"
         # odoStart = ?
         odoStart = input('Starting Odometer Reading: ')
         #b)   Prompt the user to input the ending odometer reading and store it as the variable odoEnd

         #Prompt -->"Ending Odometer Reading:"
         # odoEnd = ?
         odoEnd = input('Ending Odometer Reading: ')
         #c) Calculate total miles
         totalMiles = int(odoEnd) - int(odoStart)
         #Print odoStart, odoEnd and totalMiles
         print (odoStart)
         print (odoEnd)
         print (totalMiles)

         # Calculate Charges 2

         ##   Calculate the mileage charge and store it as
         # the variable mileCharge:

         #a)   Code 'B' (budget) mileage charge: $0.25 for each mile driven
         if rentalCode == "B":
         mileCharge = totalMiles * 0.25
         #b)   Code 'D' (daily) mileage charge: no charge if the average
         # number of miles driven per day is 100 miles or less;
         # i)   Calculate the averageDayMiles (totalMiles/rentalPeriod)
         elif rentalCode == "D":
         averageDayMiles = totalMiles/rentalPeriod
         if averageDayMiles <= 100:
         extraMiles == 0
         # ii)   If averageDayMiles is above the 100 mile per day
         # limit:
         # (1)   calculate extraMiles (averageDayMiles - 100)
         if totalMiles >= 100 and rentalCode == 'D':
         # (2)   mileCharge is the charge for extraMiles,
         mileCharge = totalMiles * int(rentalPeriod) *0.25   
         #c)   Code 'W' (weekly) mileage charge: no charge if the
         # average number of miles driven per week is
         # 900 miles or less;
         if rentalCode == 'W' and averageMiles <= 900:
         mileCharge = weeksRented * 100.00
         else:
         mileCharge = 0
         # i)   Calculate the averageWeekMiles (totalMiles/ rentalPeriod)
         # ii)   mileCharge is $100.00 per week if the average number of miles driven per week exceeds 900 miles
         if rentalCode == 'W' and averageMiles >= 900:
         mileCharge = weeksRented * 100.00
         else:
         print('Charges : ${}'.format(mileCharge))