Answer A through D, please!

Currently Sam and Carla have the only taxi services in a small town. Both Sam and Carla are thinking about discounting their respective fares by 20% to attract more business.

The possible outcomes of this game are as follows.

First: Sam offers discounts, while Carla does not, which will result in Sam earning $800 in profit and Carla earning $300 in profit.

Second: Sam and Carla both offer discounts, which will result in Sam earning $200 in profit and Carla earning $500 in profit.

Third: Sam and Carla both do not offer discounts, which will result in Sam earning $600 in profit and Carla earning $700 in profit.

Fourth: Carla offers discounts, while Sam does not, which will result in Sam earning $100 in profit and Carla earning $1,000 in profit.

a) Please construct a payoff matrix for Sam and Carla uses the outcomes above. (You can use the Table Function in Word to create a payoff matrix.)

b) Does Sam have a dominant (optimal) strategy? Please explain your answer.

c) Does Carla have a dominant (optimal) strategy? Please explain your answer.

d) Is there an equilibrium (Nash Equilibrium) solution to this problem where we can predict the strategy of both Sam and Carla? Please explain your reasoning.

Car Race

Outcome:

• Student will demonstrate the ability to generate random numbers
• Student will demonstrate the ability to use a switch statement with cases
• Student will demonstrate the ability to use loop structures
• Student will demonstrate the ability to create program logic
• Student will demonstrate the ability to produce nicely formatted output

Program Specifications:

You will design a simulated car race. The race will consist of three cars: car A, car B, and car C.

Your program will show the cars (the letters A, B, and C) moving across the screen toward the finish line. The finish line will be shown on the screen at all times during the race. Your program will randomly move each car (between 1 and 3 spaces) at randomly selected intervals. The race ends when a car moves 80 spaces. After the race ends, you will display the results:

First Place:           carX

Second Place:       carX

Third Place:          carX

After displaying the results, the program will ask the user if he or she wishes to run another race.

Submission Requirements:

You must follow the rules from the first assignment.

YOU MUST:

• Use functions for as much of the code as possible
• Turn in a design tool
• Have a switch statement
• Use the random number functions

YOU CANNOT:

• Use global variables
• Use the word goto
• Use the break command outside a case statement

Researchers were interested in learning the effects of trans fats on levels of cholesterol in the blood. Two different research designs were constructed.

Part I: Between-Groups Design

In the between-groups design, researchers were interested in whether cholesterol levels would differ depending on diet. Twenty participants were randomly assigned to one of two different groups. Group A was assigned a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and with no trans fats. Group B participants were asked to follow their normal diets, which contained varying levels of trans fats depending on the individual. After one month, blood samples were drawn and the following levels of cholesterol were obtained:

In 2 to 3 sentences in a Microsoft Word document, answer the following questions:

• What is the independent variable in this study?
• What are the levels of that independent variable?
• What is the dependent variable?

Find an article related to technology your topic/question of choice that has a belief that you strongly disagree with. For example, if you feel that bitcoin and cryptocurrencies SHOULD NOT be regulated, you should find an article that takes the stance that there SHOULD be regulations.

Write a summary of the article. Instead of discussing the side of the argument you actually believe, you are going to write a summary of the belief that you strongly disagree with. With the example discussed above, you would right a neutral and impartial summary of why the author of the article feels there should be regulations on cryptocurrencies, what they are, and why.

Part 2C: You will now write about the position you actually hold on the topic. Use the article as a point of reference. With the example discussed above, this would be the space you write about how you feel cryptocurrencies should not be regulated and why. Even though this is how you really feel, try to be neutral, impartial and unbiased in your presentation of the information.

The goal of this assignment is to try and write two neutral summaries based on opposite points of view of the same issue. This is not easy! But, as you will find, this will strengthen your overall writing. If someone is NOT able to tell which position you actually hold after reading both of these articles - you have succeeded! Your summaries should be 250 words each (total assignment word count of 500 words), double-spaced and include APA in-text citations

Objective

Identify ethics theories used in business

Categorize theories of ethics

Apply theories of ethics to business situations

Overview

Students will use research methods and apply critical thinking to create a taxonomy of germinal theories and principles of ethics.

Instructions

In this assignment, you will use the Internet, books, or any other method of research to create a taxonomy (chart) of ethical theories and principles and provide examples to apply the theory.

The taxonomy should include a minimum of 5 ethical theories or principles and include: the name of the theory or ethical principle, the author, the year/era the theory was conceptualized, and an example of the theory’s application.

Example:

Step 1 – Research and select five theories or principles of ethics.

Step 2 – Open Microsoft Word and create a table

Your table should have 4 columns and 6 rows

Include the following columns: Theory, Era and Author, Definition, and Example

Step 3 – Add information about the theories you’ve selected to your document.

Using repl.it, your own Linux installation, or other Linux emulator do the following and take screenshots for the steps that require it. Paste your screenshots into a word document, in the same order as the questions, and upload the file by 11 AM on Friday.

1. Show the contents of your home directory and take a screenshot

2. Create a directory named IT305 in your home directory and take a screenshot

3. Create a file called oldfile.txt in your home directory using the command line method of your choice. Make sure the file has at least 10 lines of characters in it. (I would suggest writing 10 lines that follow a pattern like this - This is line 1. This is line 2. and so on)

4. Create a new file in IT305 in the following manner:

use the nl command to number the lines of oldfile.txt, pipe that to the head command but only show the first 5 lines, pipe that to the tail command but only show 2 lines and redirect that output to the IT305 folder and create the newfile.txt. Do this on one command line. Take a screenshot of the command line that you use and of the contents of newfile.txt

5. Using the nslookup command, do a lookup of www.marymount.edu  (Links to an external site.)and redirect the output to a file named marymount.txt

6. del the IT305 directory and take a screenshot that shows that it is no longer in your home directory

Objective

Identify ethics theories used in business

Categorize theories of ethics

Apply theories of ethics to business situations

Overview

Students will use research methods and apply critical thinking to create a taxonomy of germinal theories and principles of ethics.

Instructions

In this assignment, you will use the Internet, books, or any other method of research to create a taxonomy (chart) of ethical theories and principles and provide examples to apply the theory.

The taxonomy should include a minimum of 5 ethical theories or principles and include: the name of the theory or ethical principle, the author, the year/era the theory was conceptualized, and an example of the theory’s application.

Example:

Step 1 – Research and select five theories or principles of ethics.

Step 2 – Open Microsoft Word and create a table

Your table should have 4 columns and 6 rows

Include the following columns: Theory, Era and Author, Definition, and Example

Step 3 – Add information about the theories you’ve selected to your document.

Competency

Evaluate accounting-related legal and ethical business implications.

Scenario

During your weekly meeting, the Director of Accounting has shared with you the topics discussed at a recent Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) meeting. Of particular interest was the agenda item about how some companies have gotten in regulatory trouble with the SEC over their revenue and expense recognition practices. While you both are confident that there are no issues relating to this at your company, you both decided that you wanted to learn more about these cases.

The Director of Accounting wants you to research two such cases and write a summary report to present at the next Accounting Department meeting. The director believes that understanding what has happened to other companies in this area of accounting can help prevent issues in your company.

The Director provides you with the SEC website that they have used in the past to do article searches: www.sec.gov

Instructions

You are asked to select two recent SEC actions against companies (not individuals) that relate to revenue and expense recognition and Prepare a Word document that:

1. summarizes reasons for the SEC actions.
2. identifies the SEC issues related to accounting data and/or operations and the remedial actions assigned and/or penalties given to the company.
3. critiques the remedial actions/penalties.
4. Gives an opinion as to whether you believe they will be effective in preventing future violations by the company.

The Lawnpoke Golf Association (LGA) has established rules that manufacturers of golf equipment must meet for their products to be acceptable for LGA events. BatOutaHell Balls uses a proprietary process to produce balls with a mean distances of 295 yards. BatOutaHell is considered that if the mean distance falls below 295 yards, the word will get out and sales will sag. Further, if the mean distance exceeds 295 yards, their balls may be rejected by LGA. Measurements of the distances are recorded in DATA. At a = 0.05, thest the no action hypothesis that the balls have a mean distance of 295 yards.

a) The test statistic of 2.238 is greater than the critical value is 2.101 therefore HO is rejected. it is reasonable to assume that the distance is not 295 yards.

b) The test statistic of 3.003 and the critical value is 2.101, therefore the test statistic is greater than the critical value of 2.101 and the null hypothesis is rejected. The distance is not 295 yards

c) The test statistic of 1.908 is less than the critical value of 2.101 therefore HO is not in the area of rejection. It is reasonto assume that the distance is about 295 yards.

d) The test statistic is 1.297 and the critical value is 2.101 therefore the test statistic is less than the critical value and the null hypothesis is not rejected. The distance is about 295 yards.

Suppose the administrator of a clinic is interested in the number of visits per person per year for those that are insured. After selecting 15 people the number of visits was recorded as the following:

By using Excel,  data analysis,  five numbers summary, and the Rubric.docx

Answer the following Question, Submit both (Excel file and word document)

1. The mean, mode, median of the annual number of visits.

2. Five points summary [ first Quartile, Second Quartile, third quartile, Maximum and Minimum]

3. Draw the box and whisker plot                                                                                                                                      

4. Range,  IQR                                                                                                                                                        

5. What is variance and standard deviation?

• Why would knowing the variance and standard deviation of a distribution for a given data point be important for a Healthcare Administrator? 

6. The skewness (Indicate if it is positively/negatively skewed) look over the video.

• What would it mean if the distribution was negatively or positively skewed? 

• Why would this information be important for a Healthcare Administrator to know?  

7. Do you have outiler in the number of visit? (if no explain how can you tell?)

8.Write a summary regarding the number of visits using the above information. [at least 500 words]