Suppose you work at a local state hospital. In 2015, the infectious disease department of the hospital was operating at max capacity. Your supervisor has given you the job of presenting to the hospital leadership board about the number of patients who contracted infections while at 30 different hospitals in your state in 2015. The board will use your findings to make informed decisions about possible expansion of the infectious disease department. You will review the data, create visuals for the data, and create a presentation for the hospital leadership board to help with the decision.

2015
Hospital   Infections *Secondary column are the # of infections*
1 89
2 58
3 96
4 206
5 31
6 16
7 249
8 79
9 29
10 6
11 222
12 108
13 58
14 54
15 81
16 64
17 9
18 130
19 37
20 121
21 27
22 6
23 95
24 7
25 18
26 37
27 140
28 74
29 134
30 184

   Infections
Min=
Q1=   
Median=   
Q3=   
Max=   

Check for Outliers  
IQR=   
Lower=   
Upper=   

Infection Class Frequency
6 - 81=   
82 - 156=
157-231=   
232-306=   

•   Use the following data to complete the values, a histogram, box & whisker plot, bell curve with distribution, and answer the following questions below.
•   How did the outliers impact the mean and median? How did they impact the histogram?
•   How would you describe the shape of your histogram? Is it skewed?
•   Which do you think is a better measure of central tendency, median or mean? Why?
•   How would you describe how spread out your data is? What did you calculate or which visual supports your conclusion on how spread out the data is?
•   How does your data support your conclusion?

Hunt Taxidermy, Inc., is concerned about the taxes paid by the company in 2015. In addition to $42.6 million of taxable income, the firm received $3,010,000 of interest on state-issued bonds and $1,700,000 of dividends on common stock it owns in Oakdale Fashions, Inc. (Use Table 2.3) Calculate Hunt Taxidermy’s tax liability. (Enter your answer in dollars not in millions. Round your answer to the nearest dollar amount.) Tax liability $ Calculate Hunt Taxidermy’s average tax rate. Average tax rate % Calculate Hunt Taxidermy’s marginal tax rate. Marginal tax rate % Hints

1) By making reference to literature and quoting individuals withing the financial sector, explain in detail the dollar-cost averaging strategy for passive investing. (300 words)

2) By making reference to literature and quoting individuals withing the financial sector, explain in detail the unpopular companies and bargain issues, special situations, foreign element and margin of safety strategies for active investing. (700 words)

The strategies mentioned above can be found in the book The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

Rhino viruses typically cause common colds. In a test of the effectiveness of echinacea, 36 of the 43 subjects treated with echinacea developed rhinovirus infections. In a placebo group, 95 of the 109 subjects developed rhinovirus infections. Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that echinacea has an effect on rhinovirus infections.

Complete parts (a) through (c) below.

a) Conduct an appropriate Hypothesis Test using  = 0.01 level of significance to determine if echinacea has an effect on rhinovirus infections. Include a conclusion that is in terms of the problem. 1. (2 pts.) State the Hypothesis: ?0: ?1:

2. (1 pt.) Determine the P-value.

3. (3 pts.) State your decision.

4. (4 pts.) State your conclusion in terms of the problem scenario. b)

Construct a 95% confidence interval to test the claim. Does the confidence interval agree with the conclusion of the hypothesis test? (You only need to include the confidence interval obtained from STATCrunch or Calculator) Explain your answer.

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You are an investment banking consultant advising an investment company. The CEO of the company tells you that she believes that capital structure does not have an impact on firm value. On what basis might they make this comment? State whether you agree or not with this position and explain why. Does the nature of this firm’s business risk change your answer? Fully explain your reasoning.

Warren INC. bases their cost of capital or WACC on a number of erroneous assumptions.Going by their current methodology, Warren’s wacc is:

Compute/answer the following:

1.Look at the pre-tax cost of each component in the current wacc shown above. What is the problem with these three values? In other words, if you knew nothing about how Warren is computing its wacc, and were only shown those three values, what red flag should these numbers raise?

2.Provide a revised estimate of Warren’s wacc using methods revised weighted average cost of capital. Show all of your work in putting together your estimate of the wacc. Also, you will have to make choices, so where needed,describe the choices/assumptions that you made in estimating the wacc.

3. With the old wacc estimate above, and your new wacc estimate, describe the impact on (1) the value of the firm, (2) investment decisions, and (3) growth of using the new wacc as opposed to the original wacc.

4.Should Warren use the new wacc for all potential investments/projects? Why/why not?

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Ignore the call feature on the bonds and ignore flotation costs.

Define Business and explain in detail the resources needed to start and operate a business. Explain how a fashion business functions in order to understand and satisfy consumer wants and needs.

Define, explain and provide the characteristics of a futures contract. Explain in detail the Dow futures contract and its relation to the U.S. Stock Market. Discuss and examine why the price movement of the Dow futures can affect the Straits Times Index.

please answer all questions and explain in detail according to the subheadings

Explain the importance of "environmental scanning" when making marketing plans and strategic plans in general

A. Marketing Plans

B. Strategic Plans