The Indiana State Police union is interested in whether the number of miles driven by each trooper is the same or different for the three different 8-hour shifts. Twenty Indiana state troopers were selected randomly selected on each of the three shifts and the number of miles that they traveled was recorded.

a) Is this an observational or an experimental study? Please explain your answer.

b) What is the population in this study?
20 Indiana troopers in each shift.
All police officers
The recorded number of miles
The times of the shift.
The Indiana State Police union
All Indiana State Troopers

c) What is the factor or treatment in this study?
All police officers
20 Indiana troopers in each shift.
All Indiana State Troopers
The times of the shift.
The Indiana State Police union
The recorded number of miles

d) What is the outcome variable of this study?
The Indiana State Police union
All Indiana State Troopers
The recorded number of miles
20 Indiana troopers in each shift.
The times of the shift.
All police officers

e) State a possible source of bias in this study. Feel free to speculate beyond the explicit statement of the question. However, nothing that is assumed can be contradicted by what is stated. Please include any assumptions that you are making.

Since you are working on your MBA you have been asked to speak to the board of directors of your firm about various methods of analyzing the companies financial statements. One of the board members states she has heard about a technique called"common-size" financial statements, but knows nothing about it. She would like you to explain what they are, how they are prepared,how they differ from regular financial statements, and how they can help the board in its decision making. What your account say?

You have been appointed as the Software Quality Assurance Manager for a
project that enables students to access their results on their android phones.

As the person responsible for the overall quality aspects, its your interest to
ensure that strong quality assurance practices are put in place to forestall any
software failure by the end-users.

i. It is important that you conduct requirements validation as part of your
quality assurance practices in this project. Could you explain in your own
words, what is requirements validation and its importance? What is the
impact if this process is not well conducted?

ii. Requirements review is one of the requirements validation techniques
in quality assurance. If you are going to make requirements review, which
method do you prefer to do the activity, formal or informal method?
Explain why you choose the method. Suggest and explain the types of
checks that should be done on the requirements in the software
requirement specification.

b. You are investigating systems requirements for a shipping company. Assume
that you have set up an interview with the manager of the shipping
department. Your objective is to determine how shipping works and what the
information requirements for the new system will be.

Make a list of questions—three (3) open ended and three (3) closed ended—
that you would use. Include four (4) questions or techniques you would use
to ensure you find out about the exceptions.

c. During interviews, why is it important to seek the opinions of the interviewee?

question 3.1
a)   Briefly explain how a decrease in housing prices would affect consumption and investment. You may assume that consumers would like to maintain their target wealth. (word limit: max 100 words)

You answer.

b)   Given your answer to a), what is likely to happen to GDP? Explain using a diagram.

You answer.

c)   Given your answer to b), how can the government use fiscal policy to prevent GDP from changing? Use a diagram in your explanation.

You answer.

d)   If the marginal propensity to import is large, what can be said about effectiveness of fiscal policy? (2 mark)

You answer.

question 3.2
Country X has run budget deficit for the past twenty years and its government debt stands at 120% of GDP. Due to pandemic of COVID-19 the government considers implementing big investment in infrastructure and effective decrease in taxes. Expert 1 says that the debt to GDP ratio is too high and the country cannot afford increasing it any further. Expert 1 suggests printing money instead to finance budget deficit arguing that it would be cheaper and more efficient way of financing budget deficit. You are hired as Expert 2. Would you agree with Expert 1? Explain. What would be your advice to the government? (word limit: max 200 words).

You answer.

“Cola Wars Continue Coke and Pepsi in 2010,” use game theory approach/analysis to explain the competitive behavior of Coke and Pepsi making specific references to actions taken by each firm and the different “battlefields.” What conclusions can you draw about the competitive strategies pursued by both companies? Explain

Q.10

Women have been encouraged throughout the world to be entrepreneurs. Many reasons, some of them being to support themselves and their families; to attain the fulfillment of having started something on their own and to satisfy their desire for financial independence. Women not only create jobs for themselves and others, but also work toward growing their businesses, and constantly innovating new products and services. One such example was the partnership venture of Ms. Amna, Ms. Saeeda , Ms. Sana and Ms. Iba. This partnership firm was called as “The Beauty Salon”. Based in Qurum since inception in 2015, this SME concentrated on providing various cosmetic and beauty treatments to its clients. The company closed doors to all its clients in 2020 due to death of one of its partners, Ms. iba

You are an Independent advisor based in Muscat and is required to advise the partners of the above firm in detail about all the possible ways that this partnership could be amended. For each of the amendments, you are required to explain the procedure in detail.                               

A school psychologist wishes to study the influence of three new curricula plans on the history achievement of junior high school students. Although the groups of students were selected on a fairly random basis, the psychologist has learned that there is considerable disparity among the groups with respect to verbal aptitude. What is the appropriate design to use in this study? Why is the design you named about appropriate? List ALL variables involved in this design State the appropriate research question

A school psychologist wishes to study the influence of three new curricula plans on the history achievement of junior high school students. Although the groups of students were selected on a fairly random basis, the psychologist has learned that there is considerable disparity among the groups with respect to verbal aptitude.

What is the appropriate design to use in this study?

Why is the design you named about appropriate?

List ALL variables involved in this design

State the appropriate research question

You are working on a manufacturing process that should produce products that have a diameter of 3/4 of an inch. You take a random sample of 35 products and find the diameter to be 13/16 of an inch with a standard deviation of 5/32 of an inch. 1. Considering a t% level of significance, what can you state statistically about the process? Please include a null hypothesis, an alternative hypothesis, and use an appropriate test statistic (I.e. Zstat or Tstat).