1. A marketing expert working for Macey’s grocery store wishes to know the average number of times wallmart customers visit the store each week. In order to address this question, she chooses three different hours on Saturdays during which she stands outside the grocery store and talks to customers as they enter to do their shopping.

1. State the population(s) of interest.

2. Identify the parameter(s) of interest.

3. Why is the parameter not ‘the number of times each person visits Macey’s in a week’?

4. Is this an observational study or a controlled experiment? Explain.

5. What type of analysis does this anticipate?

6. If applicable, identify one problem with the sampling scheme and explain how this would bias the results of the experiment. Otherwise, explain why you think the sampling is well done.

You are the assistant to the Managing Director (MD) of an open-air gardening
business that does a brisk week-day trade in indoor and outdoor plants, tools,
chemicals and simple prefab buildings. The business has greenhouses and offices,
but there is no cafeteria or garden shop. The nusiness does not deliver to
customers, and closes at noon on Saturdays, although the practice of three
neighbouring centres is to remain open until 17:00. All customers are required
to pay cash.
The MD has asked you to survey how the business is run, paying particular
attention to shortcomings. She would be glad to receive helpful suggestions.
Write a report based on the information above, and any other that seems
appropriate. Include only the following parts:
Introduction
Findings Conclusion Recommendations

Bickel Corporation uses customers served as its measure of activity. The following report compares the planning budget to the actual operating results for the month of November:

Required:

Prepare the company's flexible budget performance report for November. Label each variance as favorable (F) or unfavorable (U). (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.)

For each of the following independent events, indicate the amounts and direction of effects on the elements of the statement of financial position and statement of earnings. Using the following format, indicate + for increase, and - for decrease, and NE for no effect. Also, included the specific account name affected.

At the end of the year, a company offered to buy 4,450 units of a product from X Company for a special price of $11.00 each instead of the company's regular price of $17.00 each. The following information relates to the 62,400 units of the product that X Company made and sold to its regular customers during the year:

Fixed cost of goods sold for the year were $142,272, and fixed period costs were $83,616. Variable period costs include selling commissions equal to 3% of revenue.

6. Profit on the special order is

7. Assume the following two changes for the special order: 1) variable cost of goods sold will decrease by $0.78 per unit, and 2) there will be no selling commissions. What would be the effect of these two changes on the special order profit?

8. There is concern that regular customers will find out about the special order, and X Company's regular sales will fall by 950 units. As a result of these lost sales, X Company's profits would fall by

Sunny Park Tailors has been asked to make three different types of wedding suits for separate customers. The table below highlights the time taken in hours for cutting and sewing? (process 1) and delivery? (process 2) of each of the suits.

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Times Taken for Different Activities (hours)

Suit Cut and Sew Deliver

1 7 2

2 4 3

3 5 6

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For the schedule developed using the? Johnson's rule, the total length of time taken to complete the three suits? (including delivery)? =

Of the two developed? schedules, which rule gets the schedule finished sooner.??????????????????????????

a) A researcher is interested in exploring patterns of communication among local junior football coaches. She decides to use a qualitative approach as she believes that this will provide her with a deeper understanding of the contextual factors that influence coach communications however she is uncertain about what method of data collection to use. Choose one method of data collection that you would recommend the researcher use; briefly describe how this method of data collection could be used by the researcher; and indicate one advantage and one disadvantage / consideration associated with this method of data collection.

b) Braun and Clarke (2006) summarise thematic analysis according to six phases. The first of these phases (i.e., Phase 1) is titled ‘familiarizing yourself with your data’. Reflecting on this phase: 1) summarise the key activities a researcher would perform during this phase; and 2) identify any challenge(s) associated with performing these activities.

c) It is important for qualitative researchers to provide evidence of the trustworthiness of their study. Briefly describe three techniques that could be used by a researcher to increase the trustworthiness of their data and conclusions.

Using Ruby

A dentist appointment schedule validation software

Implement a superclass Appointment and sub classes OneTime, Day and Month. An appointment has a description (for example, "Root Canal"), and dates information (you can use Date object or int Year, Int Month, Int Day). Fill an array of Appointment objects with a mixture of appointments.

Write a method OccursOn inside each of the sub classes that checks whether the appointment occurs on that date (OneTime), day (Day) or month (Month). Ask the user to enter a date to check (for example, 2006 10 5), and ask to user if they want to check against OneTime, Day or Month appointment. Based on what the user selected, OccursOn inside each of the sub class should run and display any matching appointment and associated descriptions.

Hint: For OneTime subclass, OccursOn need three inputs (Year, Month and Day) to validate, for Day subclass, OccursOn needs one input (Day) to validate, and for Month subclass, OccursOn need one input (Month) to validate. OccursOn is different for different subclasses.

In Ruby

A dentist appointment schedule validation software

Implement a superclass Appointment and sub classes OneTime, Day and Month. An appointment has a description (for example, "Root Canal"), and dates information (you can use Date object or int Year, Int Month, Int Day). Fill an array of Appointment objects with a mixture of appointments.

Write a method OccursOn inside each of the sub classes that checks whether the appointment occurs on that date (OneTime), day (Day) or month (Month). Ask the user to enter a date to check (for example, 2006 10 5), and ask to user if they want to check against OneTime, Day or Month appointment. Based on what the user selected, OccursOn inside each of the sub class should run and display any matching appointment and associated descriptions.

Hint: For OneTime subclass, OccursOn need three inputs (Year, Month and Day) to validate, for Day subclass, OccursOn needs one input (Day) to validate, and for Month subclass, OccursOn need one input (Month) to validate. OccursOn is different for different subclasses.

Question 2

Assume that you have a three-year-old daughter and you have come to appreciate the power of saving and investing. Can you open up and put money into a Roth IRA in your child's name so that she can benefit from many years of compounding?

Question 3

Imagine that you are thirty years old and hold a good job. Can you contribute up to the annual limit ($5500 in 2017) into both a traditional and Roth IRA?

Question 4

The age at which you can begin withdrawing IRA funds without a penalty must correspond to the age at which you start collecting Social Security.

Question 5

People who are 50 years old or older can add an additional $1,000 to their annual IRA contribution limit.