Report on the factors that contribute to the growth in medications

Include the following aspects in the discussion:

• Find a scholarly article on the costs of medications
• Explore whether pharmaceuticals should be regulated
• Discuss the impact of medication costs for the uninsured
• Consider actions that could be taken to reduce medication costs

The majority of the articles you will find blame debt. This may contribute, but there are other reasons why Neiman Marcus hit rock bottom. Do some research on the stores, the prices, the offerings and the services they offer. Did they have the characteristics that were selected in by this environment? What characteristics were strong points? What characteristics were weak points?

Is it too late for Neiman Marcus? Can they change their characteristics to be more isomorphic with their environment?

In the middle of the COVID-19 crisis Neiman Marcus sent an email touting their sale on women's high-fashion dresses. The 40% off took some $5000 dress down to $3000. Is this a smart move? Does this show that they are out of touch?

ETHICS IN IT

The general moral imperatives involving individuals is to:
a. Contribute to society and human well-being.
b. Avoid harm to others.
c. Be honest and trustworthy.
d. Be fair and take action not to discriminate.
e. Honour property rights including copyrights and patent.
You are required to discuss the above general moral imperatives in relation to
Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

1. A researcher estimates that the average revenue of the largest businesses in the U.S. is greater than $24 billion. A random sample of 50 companies is selected, and the revenues in billions of dollars are recorded. Assume a Normal distribution with a standard deviation of $30 billion. Is there enough evidence at an 8% level of significance to support the researcher’s claim?

1. Identify the proper Test or Confidence interval:

2. Complete the Test or Confidence Interval.

Given the information in the preceding balance sheet—and assuming that Cold Goose Metal Works Inc. has 50 million shares of common stock outstanding—read each of the following statements, then identify the selection that best interprets the information conveyed by the balance sheet.

Statement #1: Cold Goose’s net collection of inventory items increased by more than the firm's sales between Years 1 and 2.

This statement is     , because:

The accruals balance decreased by $117 million between Years 1 and 2

Total inventories of raw materials, work-in-process, and final goods increased from $1,980 million to $2,475 million between Year 1 and Year 2

Total inventories of raw materials, work-in-process, and final goods decreased by $495 million between Year 1 and Year 2

Statement #2: In Year 2, Cold Goose Metal Works Inc. was profitable.

This statement is     , because:

Cold Goose’s total assets increased between Years 1 and 2

The cash and equivalents account increased between Years 1 and 2

Cold Goose’s retained earnings account increased between the end of Years 1 and 2

Statement #3: One way to interpret the change in Cold Goose’s accounts receivable balance from Year 1 to Year 2 is that more customers purchased new items on credit rather than paying off existing credit accounts.

This statement is     , because:

The change from $1,980 million to $2,475 million reflects a net accumulation of new credit sales

The $169 increase in accounts receivable means either that Year 1’s existing credit customers are not paying off their owed balances and new or existing customers are making additional purchases on credit, or that Year 1’s credit customers have repaid their owed balances and Year 2 credit sales have exceeded Year 1’s credit sales

The decrease from $844 million to $675 million implies a net decrease in accounts receivable and that more customers are paying off their receivables balances than are buying on credit

Based on your understanding of the different items reported in the balance sheet and the information they provide, which statement regarding Cold Goose Metal Works Inc.’s balance sheet is consistent with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)?

The company’s assets should be listed from those carrying the largest balance to those with the smallest balance.

The company’s assets should be listed in alphabetical order.

The company’s assets should be listed in the order in which they are to be converted into cash.

The length of a species of fish is to be represented as a function of the age (measured in days) and water temperature (degrees Celsius). The fish are kept in tanks at 25, 27, 29 and 31 degrees Celsius. After birth, a test specimen is chosen at random every 14 days and its length measured.

In this problem, assume that the distribution of differences is approximately normal. Note: For degrees of freedom d.f. not in the Student's t table, use the closest d.f. that is smaller. In some situations, this choice of d.f. may increase the P-value by a small amount and therefore produce a slightly more "conservative" answer.

Are America's top chief executive officers (CEOs) really worth all that money? One way to answer this question is to look at row B, the annual company percentage increase in revenue, versus row A, the CEO's annual percentage salary increase in that same company. Suppose a random sample of companies yielded the following data:

Do these data indicate that the population mean percentage increase in corporate revenue (row B) is different from the population mean percentage increase in CEO salary? Use a 5% level of significance. (Let d = B ? A.)

(a) What is the level of significance?


State the null and alternate hypotheses.

H₀: ?_d = 0; H₁: ?_d < 0H₀: ?_d > 0; H₁: ?_d = 0     H₀: ?_d ? 0; H₁: ?_d = 0H₀: ?_d = 0; H₁: ?_d > 0H₀: ?_d = 0; H₁: ?_d ? 0

(b) What sampling distribution will you use? What assumptions are you making?

The Student's t. We assume that d has an approximately normal distribution.The Student's t. We assume that d has an approximately uniform distribution.     The standard normal. We assume that d has an approximately uniform distribution.The standard normal. We assume that d has an approximately normal distribution.

What is the value of the sample test statistic? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)


(c) Find the P-value. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)


Sketch the sampling distribution and show the area corresponding to the P-value.

(d) Based on your answers in parts (a) to (c), will you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? Are the data statistically significant at level ??

Since the P-value ? ?, we reject H₀. The data are statistically significant.Since the P-value > ?, we fail to reject H₀. The data are not statistically significant.     Since the P-value > ?, we reject H₀. The data are not statistically significant.Since the P-value ? ?, we fail to reject H₀. The data are statistically significant.

(e) Interpret your conclusion in the context of the application.

Reject H₀. At the 5% level of significance, the evidence is sufficient to claim a difference in population mean percentage increases for corporate revenue and CEO salary.Fail to reject H₀. At the 5% level of significance, the evidence is insufficient to claim a difference in population mean percentage increases for corporate revenue and CEO salary.     Fail to reject H₀. At the 5% level of significance, the evidence is sufficient to claim a difference in population mean percentage increases for corporate revenue and CEO salary.Reject H₀. At the 5% level of significance, the evidence is insufficient to claim a difference in population mean percentage increases for corporate revenue and CEO salary.

1. Customers arrive at the drive-up window of a fast-food restaurant at a rate of 2 per minute during the lunch hour
   1. What is the probability that the next customer will arrive within 1 minute?
   2. What is the probability that the next customer will arrive after 0.5 minutes?
   3. What is the probability that the next customer will arrive between 45 seconds and 1.5 minutes?