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The Appalachian Bear Center (ABC) is a not-for-profit organization located near the Great Smoky Mountains National...

The Appalachian Bear Center (ABC) is a not-for-profit organization located near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. ABC’s programs include the rehabilitation of orphaned and injured black bears, as well as research and education about Appalachian black bears. ABC provides the most natural environment possible for rehabilitating black bears before their release back into the wild. Katie Settlage performed a study to learn more about the Appalachian black bear population in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She and a team of researchers used a sample of 68 black bears in the park and took measurements such as paw size, weight, and shoulder height. Questions 2 and 3 refer to the following information regarding the shoulder height of the 28 female bears from the study. For these 28 female bears, the sample mean is 75.679 cm and the sample standard deviation is 7.592 cm. Assume the data is normally distributed and the sample is randomly selected.

3. Using an 80% level of confidence, construct the confidence interval for the population standard deviation of the shoulder heights based on the female data and make a statement interpreting these intervals.

show all work plz.

In: Statistics and Probability

1) COVID 19 has made a significant impact on the provision of hospitality guest service. As...

1) COVID 19 has made a significant impact on the provision of hospitality guest service. As a hospitality manager who is forced to adapt to the new social constructs, how can you sustain the quality of hospitality guest service to minimize physical contact? Justify your answer.
2). Reflecting on the nature or the characteristics of service, what do you think are its implications to the hospitality organizations in creating a total guest experience?
3) The service industry holds to the general notion that “the guest is always right.” However, in situations where the guest wants too much or goes too far, as rule of thumb, the hospitality manager must be able to find ways to let them know that they are wrong with dignity ensuring that in the process their self- esteem as well as their satisfaction with the guest experience and the organization are not negatively affected. So, how would you handle the given situation? A long-time guest has drunk a bit too much in your hotel bar. He is staying at the hotel that evening, he is not driving, and he insists on one more drink. He says that if the hotel refuses to serve him, he will take his business elsewhere.

In: Operations Management

Over the past six months, Six Flags conducted a marketing study on improving their park experience....

Over the past six months, Six Flags conducted a marketing study on improving their park experience. The study cost $3.00 million and the results suggested that Six Flags add a kid's only roller coaster.

Suppose that Six Flags decides to build a new roller coaster for the upcoming operating season. The depreciable equipment for the roller coaster will cost $50.00 million and an additional $5.00 million to install. The equipment will be depreciated straight-line over 20 years.

The marketing team at Six Flags expects the coaster to increase attendance at the park by 5%. This translates to 110,714.00 more visitors at an average ticket price of $39.00. Expenses for these visitors are about 12.00% of sales.

There is no impact on working capital. The average visitor spends $23.00 on park merchandise and concessions. The after-tax operating margin on these side effects is 31.00%. The tax rate facing the firm is 36.00%, while the cost of capital is 8.00%.

What is the NPV of this coaster project if Six Flags will evaluate it over a 20-year period? (Six Flags expects the first year project cash flow to grow at 5% per year, going forward)
(Express answer in millions)

In: Finance

Over the past six months, Six Flags conducted a marketing study on improving their park experience....

Over the past six months, Six Flags conducted a marketing study on improving their park experience. The study cost $3.00 million and the results suggested that Six Flags add a kid's only roller coaster.

Suppose that Six Flags decides to build a new roller coaster for the upcoming operating season. The depreciable equipment for the roller coaster will cost $50.00 million and an additional $5.00 million to install. The equipment will be depreciated straight-line over 20 years.

The marketing team at Six Flags expects the coaster to increase attendance at the park by 5%. This translates to 107,097.00 more visitors at an average ticket price of $38.00. Expenses for these visitors are about 17.00% of sales.

There is no impact on working capital. The average visitor spends $22.00 on park merchandise and concessions. The after-tax operating margin on these side effects is 29.00%. The tax rate facing the firm is 34.00%, while the cost of capital is 10.00%.

What is the NPV of this coaster project if Six Flags will evaluate it over a 20-year period? (Six Flags expects the first year project cash flow to grow at 5% per year, going forward)
(Express answer in millions)

In: Finance

The New Hotel Of Marseille has 2 different meeting rooms named Honorine and Zoe. In Honorine,...

The New Hotel Of Marseille has 2 different meeting rooms named Honorine and Zoe. In Honorine, there is a meeting for a pharmaceutical company while in Zoe there is a meeting for an insurance company. The reception team was well informed about the pharmaceutical meeting but not the insurance’s, every time a person asks the reception for the meeting location, they were immediately sent to Honorine. Two of the participants came back to the front desk and they were very upset about being sent to the wrong place, when asking about why they were not sent to the correct meeting, the receptionist politely replied and informed them that based on the information he had, there is only one meeting at the hotel today, but the guests insisted that their company organized a meeting at the hotel, so the reception showed his understanding and apologized about the misunderstanding and immediately called the sales department who confirmed that there are two different meetings.

Questions: Question 1: What is the reason behind this situation? Why? (35 pts.)

Question 2: Who is responsible for avoiding such misunderstandings in the future? How? (35 pts.)

Question 3: How would you evaluate the service delivered by the front office team? (30 pts.)

In: Operations Management

Pizza Hut is facing stiff competition in it pizza delivery service, and you are the owner...

Pizza Hut is facing stiff competition in it pizza delivery service, and you are the owner who is particularly concerned about being able to provide call-in customers with a guarantee as to how quickly their pizza would arrive. You have collected a month’s worth of data that included travel time (y)/ minute and delivery distance (x)/miles. You want to know if you can use delivery distance to predict travel time. You run regression on excel, and get the following output. Answer questions following the output.

1). Using the knowledge you learned from Chapter 3 to summarize Travel time and Delivery distance. What is the characteristics of this sample?

2). Determine the least-squares regression equation for travel time as a function of distance. Interpret the slope.

3). What percentage of the variation in travel time(y) is explained by the delivery distance (x)?

4). Do hypothesis testing to test the significance of slope and follow the 4-step. What does it tell you about the relationship between pizza delivery distance and travel time? (α=0.05)

5. what is the 95% confidence interval for slope? How does it tell you about the significance of the slope? Does this conclusion agree with the conclusion from 4)?

6).What would be the estimated time of travel for a pizza delivery that involved 5-miles? Interpret the result.

7). Calculate the prediction interval for the individual travel time given a pizza delivery distance is 5 miles (Show your calculation details in Excel). Interpret the results. (α=0.05)

8). Calculate the confidence interval for the mean of travel time given a pizza delivery distance is 5 miles (Show your calculation details in Excel). Interpret the results. (α=0.05)

9). Comparing results from 7) and 8), which one is wider? Why?

10). Calculate SSR, SSE and SST for this model.

Travel_Time
6.02
5.47
8.99
7.98
9.01
10.86
6.31
7.87
12.47
7.58
10.65
7.83
6.75
9.59
6.99
8.94
8.38
5.62
5.67
9.18
5.04
8.16
6.81
3.71
6.44
7.98
5.85
4.72
7
8.52
8.48
6.61
8.98
7.93
10.31
4.86
8.9
8.78
6.27
8.83
7.54
10.49
8.33
7.76
8.88
7.17
8.98
7.06
9.86
5.71
7.12
6.08
7.91
6.05
5.91
7.53
6.31
7.37
4.27
7.87
7.11
7.28
9.83
6.28
5.83
5.5
8.89
7.08
5.57
7.83
7.74
11.29
8.72
6.31
9.69
10.02
11.41
5.87
6.64
9.65
10.88
6.43
6.71
4.12
8.88
5.86
10.74
5.83
8.25
6.93
7.81
9.33
6.04
5.6
7.04
9.41
10.93
8.14
6.46
7.79
7.06
4.27
8.87
10.19
8.14
7.91
8.28
4.85
8.02
9.36
8.52
7.35
7.59
8.33
11.22
5.97
8.28
6.63
9.56
6.7
5.83
6.02
6.47
8.16
6.55
7.17
8.62
8.81
9.62
9.39
4.88
9.21
5.18
9.17
7.78
10.49
4.91
8.54
4.07
5.88
7.09
5.8
7.03
7.94
8.45
6.59
10.75
8.68
6.05
8.3
8.53
5.96
8.2
5.67
8.85
9.02
6.65
10.36
7.9
8.51
7.73
9.24
9.91
5.85
4.68
8.47
9.02
10.57
10.71
3.52
10.56
5.09
8.47
6.81
10.84
6.47
7.33
8.82
9.34
8.24
7.54
9.43
11.21
10.67
7.7
6.37
8.14
8.22
9.41
6.62
4.83
6.55
3.12
7.19
9.39
6.9
8.29
11.85
8.83
3.92
12.25
9.9
8.68
8.97
9.56
8.65
10.49
6.87
4.86
11.14
8.76
9.41
3.93
9.98
6.32
9.4
6.54
8.45
5.3
6.96
6.88
8.22
8.06
12.55
9
8.25
12.58
9.63
10.42
7.69
7.88
7.43
6.56
4.72
8.58
8.83
7.65
12.43
6.09
7.79

  

Distance
2.5
3.3
4.9
3.8
4.9
5.3
2.9
3.5
6.4
3.5
5.1
3.7
3.6
5.2
3.4
4.8
3.7
2.4
3.1
4.4
2.2
3.8
3.5
1.7
2.5
4.1
2
1.9
3.6
3.6
3.9
3.3
4.4
3.9
4.8
2.1
4.7
4.6
3.3
3.7
3.6
5.8
4.2
3.6
4
4
4.4
3.8
4.9
2.8
4
3.1
4
3.3
2.7
4.1
3.3
3.9
2.1
4.4
3.8
3.5
4.8
2.9
3
2.9
4.3
3.8
2.8
4.4
3.4
5.3
3.9
3.5
4.9
4.9
5.7
2.9
3.2
5.2
5
3.2
2.9
2.2
4.6
2.7
6.1
2.4
3.4
3.8
3.9
5
3.2
3
3.2
4.9
5.1
4.1
3.2
3.9
3.1
2.3
4.5
4.9
4.8
4.5
4.7
2.5
3.7
5.6
3.8
2.7
4
3.8
5.9
2.6
4.2
3
4.9
3.8
2.6
3
2.6
4.3
3.9
3.4
4.3
4.2
4.6
4.6
2.5
4.7
2
4.7
4.3
5.1
2.4
4.3
1.2
3.7
3.5
2.6
3.4
3.9
4
2.8
5.4
3.6
3
4.2
3.7
2.7
3.2
3.2
4.6
4.5
3.5
5.1
4.4
4.3
4.1
4.3
5.1
2.4
3.1
4.6
4.9
5.2
5.2
1.9
5.8
2.7
4.2
3.4
5.5
3.4
3.5
4.6
4.3
3.9
4.1
5.2
5.5
5.9
3.7
2.8
3.7
3.8
4
3.1
3
3.2
1.7
3.3
5
2.9
3.7
5.8
4.6
2.3
5.5
5.3
4.1
4
4.7
4.6
5.3
3
2.5
6.1
4.6
4.4
2.5
4.2
3.3
4.5
3.3
4.2
2.5
3.6
2.9
4.7
4.1
6.4
4.7
4.1
6.4
5
5
3.8
4
3.6
3.1
2.9
4.9
5.1
4
5.4
2.7
4

In: Statistics and Probability

A stock's returns have the following distribution: Demand for the Company's Products Probability of This Demand...

A stock's returns have the following distribution:

Demand for the
Company's Products		 Probability of This
Demand Occurring		 Rate of Return If
This Demand Occurs
Weak 0.1 (32%)
Below average 0.3 (14)   
Average 0.4 11  
Above average 0.1 36  
Strong 0.1 55  
1.0

Assume the risk-free rate is 2%. Calculate the stock's expected return, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, and Sharpe ratio. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places.

Stock's expected return:   %

Standard deviation:   %

Coefficient of variation:  

Sharpe ratio:  

Stocks A and B have the following probability distributions of expected future returns:

Probability A B
0.3 (12%) (23%)
0.1 5 0
0.2 11 24
0.2 20 26
0.2 38 41

  1. Calculate the expected rate of return, , for Stock B ( = 10.70%.) Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.
      %

  2. Calculate the standard deviation of expected returns, σA, for Stock A (σB = 24.85%.) Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.
      %

    Now calculate the coefficient of variation for Stock B. Round your answer to two decimal places.

    Is it possible that most investors might regard Stock B as being less risky than Stock A?

    1. If Stock B is more highly correlated with the market than A, then it might have a lower beta than Stock A, and hence be less risky in a portfolio sense.
    2. If Stock B is more highly correlated with the market than A, then it might have the same beta as Stock A, and hence be just as risky in a portfolio sense.
    3. If Stock B is less highly correlated with the market than A, then it might have a lower beta than Stock A, and hence be less risky in a portfolio sense.
    4. If Stock B is less highly correlated with the market than A, then it might have a higher beta than Stock A, and hence be more risky in a portfolio sense.
    5. If Stock B is more highly correlated with the market than A, then it might have a higher beta than Stock A, and hence be less risky in a portfolio sense.


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  3. Assume the risk-free rate is 2.5%. What are the Sharpe ratios for Stocks A and B? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places.

    Stock A:  

    Stock B:  

    Are these calculations consistent with the information obtained from the coefficient of variation calculations in Part b?

    1. In a stand-alone risk sense A is less risky than B. If Stock B is more highly correlated with the market than A, then it might have the same beta as Stock A, and hence be just as risky in a portfolio sense.
    2. In a stand-alone risk sense A is less risky than B. If Stock B is less highly correlated with the market than A, then it might have a lower beta than Stock A, and hence be less risky in a portfolio sense.
    3. In a stand-alone risk sense A is less risky than B. If Stock B is less highly correlated with the market than A, then it might have a higher beta than Stock A, and hence be more risky in a portfolio sense.
    4. In a stand-alone risk sense A is more risky than B. If Stock B is less highly correlated with the market than A, then it might have a lower beta than Stock A, and hence be less risky in a portfolio sense.
    5. In a stand-alone risk sense A is more risky than B. If Stock B is less highly correlated with the market than A, then it might have a higher beta than Stock A, and hence be more risky in a portfolio sense.


    -Select-IIIIIIIVVItem 7

In: Finance

An alternative investment analyst estimates the following return distributions for a stock, given the economic forecasts:...

An alternative investment analyst estimates the following return distributions for a stock, given the economic forecasts:

Probability                    Rate of Return

0.2                               4%      

0.6                               10%    

0.2 18%

The standard deviation of the expected return is closest to:

A).       4.1%   

B).       5.4%

C).       6.3%

D).       4.8%

E).        None of above

In: Finance

A graphing calculator is recommended. For the limit lim x → 2 (x3 − 3x +...

A graphing calculator is recommended.

For the limit

lim x → 2 (x3 − 3x + 8) = 10

illustrate the definition by finding the largest possible values of δ that correspond to ε = 0.2 and ε = 0.1. (Round your answers to four decimal places.)

ε = 0.2     δ =
ε = 0.1     δ =

In: Math

You need to prepare a buffer with the following concentrations: 0.2 M Tris (FW Tris Base...

You need to prepare a buffer with the following concentrations: 0.2 M Tris (FW Tris Base = 121.1), 0.2 M NaCl (FW NaCl = 58.44), 0.01 M MgAc (FW MgAc = 214.4) and 5% glycerol. Prepare a table that shows how to prepare 1 L of this solution.

In: Chemistry