As the national government has increased its voiced approval for the HPV vaccine known as Gardasil, many organizations have begun gathering data to address the rise in prevalence of young girls receiving the vaccine. Last year, the National Center for Health Statistics estimated that the National vaccine prevalence is up to 15% in the same age demographic. In order to test this assumption, a researcher conducted a study and found that out of 3,579 women in the demographic surveyed, 879 reported receiving one or more of the three shots included in the package for the vaccine.

A) Is the sample size large enough to justify the use of the Z formula?

B) Test if the proportion of the prevalence of the vaccine has changed. Use = 0.05. Hint: One sample proportion.

C) Calculate the 95% two-sided confidence interval for p and make a conclusion about H₀.

D) Compare your results and conclusions in a and b above. What would you conclude?

Carry probabilities to at least four decimal places for intermediate steps.

For extremely small probabilities, it is important to have one or two significant non-zero digits, for example, 0.000001 or 0.000034.

Round off your final answer to two decimal places.

*HAND Calculations ONLY, Show ALL steps*

Mintzberg and Waters explore the process by which strategies form within organizations. They compare intended strategies (strategies that come from a planning process) with realized strategies (what the organization actually did). They provide a framework to study the difference between these two concepts through a continuum where at one end lies the completely planned strategy and at the other end lies the completely emergent strategy. In the planned strategy, intentions are very clear and directly translated into actions. In emergent strategies, decisions emerge from bargaining, chance and positive feedback. An example is the strategy based on consensus. In the middle of these two extremes lie what the authors call the entrepreneurial, ideological and umbrella strategies. Instead of saying that any one type of strategy is better than the other, the authors claim that what is best depends on the nature of the organization.

Thirty years ago, Hooters of America had advanced a successful chain restaurant concept which combined “good food, cold beer and pretty girls.” After a period of rapid growth and a gauntlet of legal and community challenges, Hooters began losing ground to competitors in the expanding “breastaurant” sector in the 2000s.

Using Mintzberg and Water’s framework, evaluate and describe the origin of Hooters’ strategy.

7) Select all of the following that are functions of the accessory glands of the male reproductive system. (2 points)

A) Spermatocyte creation

-B) Supplying nutrients for gamete motility

-C) Moving fluids along the reproductive tract

D) Buffer production

E) Hormone secretion for fertility regulation

5) Where would the most mature sperm cells be found? (1 point)

A) In the seminiferous tubules

B) In the testes

C) In the ejaculatory duct—

D) In the seminal vesicles

E) In the bulbourethral gland

11) Which of the following statements concerning oogenesis is true? (1 point)

A) Oogenesis begins after birth

B) Ova develop from stem cells called oogenesis

C) An ovum completes its last mitosis after it is fertilized

D) About half the oogonia complete mitosis between birth and puberty

E) By the time of their birth, girls have already lost about 80 percent of their oocytes

12) Select all of the following that are true of the vagina. (1 point)

A) Loses its inner lining during menses

B) Has a cervix for connection to the uterus

C) Holds sperm before their movement to the uterus

D) Is the lower region of the birth canal

E) Assists in urine movement via the urethra

Ann works full-time as a crossing guard at an elementary school. She is a married 34 year-old G1P0, 32 weeks pregnant woman and reported to her OB this morning that she has been experiencing some “spotting”. She has just been told by her OB that she as PLACENTA PREVIA and has been sent home on bedrest.
• What is Placenta Previa?

• How may this diagnosis affect the rest of her pregnancy? Her home life/ emotional/ financial/ sexual needs?

• Ann should notify her doctor if she experiences what symptom/sign?

• How will this affect the delivery of her baby?

• What concerns might you have about her delivery?

• What will her postpartum recovery be like afterwards?

• As her postpartum nurse, describe your plan of care for her including any medications/ labs/ nursing diagnoses that you feel may be relevant.

Jackie notices everyone wearing Converse sneakers on the first day of school. Ever the fashionista, this will likely affect:

Multiple Choice

• Jackie's income, as she now needs to buy Converse and will have less to spend on other goods.

• Jackie's preferences for shoes, since she feels as though she needs them now.

• Jackie's expectations of future prices, since the price of Converse will likely go up because they're getting so popular.

• the prices of related goods, since other shoes will be less popular and cost less now.

1. The CSI Company is considering selling its School of Business to Harvard University. The proposed deal would require Harvard to pay CSI $30,000 and $25,000 at the end of years 1 and 2, and to also make yearly payments (at the end of the year) of $15,000 in years 3 thru 9. Harvard would make a final payment to CSI for $10,000 at the end of year 10. If the discount rate is 12% what is the present value of this series of payments?

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have determined that children under 2 years old who sleep with the lights on have a 33% chance of becoming myopic before they are 16. Children who sleep in darkness have a 22% probability of becoming myopic. A survey indicates that 26% of children under 2 sleep with some light on. Find the probability that a random child under 2 will become myopic before reaching 16 years old.

Imagine that you are considering going to graduate school for economics. The program under consideration lasts for one year. The program is costly, and the value to you of its credentials is greater if you are not all that skilled and would have struggled to get a good job without the extra degree. On the other hand, if you do turn out to be very skilled in economics, you would get a good job without the degree in addition to saving on the cost of tuition. Unfortunately, you don’t know for sure yet whether or not you’re especially skilled in economics. More concretely, if you enter the program and you aren’t all that skilled, you get a total payoff of $40,000. If you enter the program and you are quite skilled, you get a total payoff of $80,000. If you don’t enter the program and you aren’t all that skilled, you get a total payoff of $5,000. If you don’t enter the program and you are quite skilled, you get a total payoff of $150,000. “Total payoff” means returns in the labor market and, when applicable, this is net of tuition costs.

(a) Give two additional pieces of information someone who had taken ECON400 would likely need in order to advise you on your course of action. Now suppose that you know, from your strong undergraduate performance, that the true probability you are skilled is 0.7. You can take an assessment before the graduate program that will determine, with complete certainty, whether or not you are skilled.

(b) What is the most that you would pay to take the assessment described above? Why?

A recent 10-year study conducted by a research team at the Great Falls Medical School was conducted to assess how age, systolic blood pressure, and smoking relate to the risk of strokes. Assume that the following data are from a portion of this study. Risk is interpreted as the probability (times 100) that the patient will have a stroke over the next 10-year period. For the smoking variable, define a dummy variable with 1 indicating a smoker and 0 indicating a nonsmoker.