The female labor force participation rates (FLFPR) of women in randomly selected countries in 1990 and latest years of the 1990s are in the table below (Lim, 2002).  

Find differences in the direction of FLFPR 25-54 1990 minus FLFPR 25-54 Latest year of 1990s to complete your work and answer the given questions.

#10. Estimate the mean difference in the female labor force participation rate in 1990 to latest years of the 1990s using a 95% confidence interval. Fill in blank 1 to report the bounds of the 95% CI. Enter your answers as lower bound,upper bound with no additional spaces and rounding bounds to two decimals.

Blank #1: 95% confident that the true mean difference in female labor force participation rates in 1990 to latest years of the 1990s is between _____________% and ___________________%.

#9. Do the data show that the mean female labor force participation rate in 1990 is different from that in the latest years of the 1990s using a 5% level of significance?

Use the framework below to guide your work.

Hypotheses: :     Ho: mu = 0; Ha: mu _____________0 (blank #2)

Blank #3: Test statistic = _________ (round to two decimal places)

Blank #4:  p-value = __________ (round to four decimal places)

Blank #5: Test decision: We decide to ___________ Ho (reject or do not reject)

Blank #6: Conclusion back into the words of problem: The evidence __________(favors or does not favor) that there is a difference in the female labor force participation rates in 1990 and the latest years of the 1990s.

A couple plans to have children until they get a​ girl, but they agree they will not have more than three​ children, even if all are boys. Assume that the probability of having a girl is 52.00 ​%. ​a) Create a probability model for the number of children​ they'll have. ​b) Find the expected number of children. ​c) Find the expected number of boys​ they'll have.   

Find a common (i.e., a shared resource) that is tragic (i.e., is inevitably degraded) in your own life. It may be something that you observe in your town, school, or home, but it must have the elements of a "Tragedy of the Commons."

Share your story by considering the following questions:

Explain who shares this resource.

Why do they share it?

Explain how these people use the resource for their own individual gain.

Show how the result is the depletion of the resource.

What ideas do you have to improving the situation and enabling long-term sustainability of the resource?

Who would it take to implement such changes? What challenges would those people face and how could they be helped?

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The county collector of Suncoast County is responsible for collecting all property taxes levied by funds and governments within the boundaries of the county. To reimburse the county for estimated administrative expenses of operating the tax custodial fund, the custodial fund deducts 3.2 percent from the collections for the town, the school district, and the other towns. The total amount deducted is added to the collections for the county and remitted to the Suncoast County General Fund.

The following events occurred during the year:

1. Current-year tax levies to be collected by the custodial fund were
   

2. $13,870,000 of current taxes was collected during the first half of the year.

3. Liabilities to all funds and governments as a result of the first half-year collections were recorded. (A schedule of amounts collected for each participant, showing the amount withheld for the county General Fund and net amounts due the participants, is recommended for determining amounts to be recorded for this transaction.)

4. All cash in the tax custodial fund was distributed.

5. All additions and deductions were recorded by the custodial fund. Additions and deductions are aggregated because resources are held less than three months.

Prepare journal entries for each of the foregoing transactions that affected the tax custodial fund.

a) Record the current-year tax levies to be collected by the agency.

b) Record the current taxes collected during the first half of the year.

c) Record the liabilities due to all funds and governments at the end of first half-year.

d) Record the distribution of all cash in the tax custodial fund.

e) Record the additions and deductions by the custodial fund.

What fueled the accumulation of external debt in Latin America and what role did internal and external factors play in this crisis?

What were the effects of Import Substitution Industrialization on most countries of Latin America? Discuss 2 benefits to some of the countries.

what were the principal elements of economic development of the Americas? how were the economies of USA, Canada, and Latin America different?

A clinical trial was conducted using a new method designed to increase the probability of conceiving a girl. As of this? writing, 963 963 babies were born to parents using the new? method, and 892 892 of them were girls. Use a 0.05 0.05 significance level to test the claim that the new method is effective in increasing the likelihood that a baby will be a girl. Identify the null? hypothesis, alternative? hypothesis, test? statistic, P-value, conclusion about the null? hypothesis, and final conclusion that addresses the original claim. Use the? P-value method and the normal distribution as an approximation to the binomial distribution. what is test statistic z= round 2 decimal places

Question Four

Eric Aboagye was a 29-year-old math teacher at Ako Basic School in Pru District. He empathized with his students and was devoted to their success. A colleague described Aboagye as a “star teacher” and a “very hard worker, who will go the extra mile.” Aboagye was a teacher when Mary Afenya was Pru District’s school superintendent. Afenya set accountability measures for the Pru District school district and created performance objectives for the schools. Teacher evaluations were linked to students’ performance on standardized tests. Schools whose students did not make appropriate progress toward the standardized test goals received escalating sanctions that culminated in replacement of teachers and other staff, and restructuring or closing of the school. Ako Basic School had been classified as “a school in need of improvement” for the previous five years. Unless 58 percent of students passed the math portion of the standardized test and 67 percent passed the language arts portion, Ako Basic School could be closed down. Its students would be separated and bussed across town to different schools. Aboagye pushed his students to work harder than they ever had in preparing for the test. But he knew that it would be very difficult for many of them to pass. Mr. Mensah, the new principal of Ako Basic School, had heard that teachers in the elementary schools that fed into Ako had changed their students’ answers on the standardized tests under the guise of erasing stray pencil marks. Mr. Mensah asked Aboagye and other teachers to do the same. Aboagye found the exams of students who needed to get a few more questions right in order to pass. He changed their answers. If he did not change their scores, Aboagye feared that his students would lapse into “why try” attitudes. They would lose their neighborhood school and the community that had developed within it. Thanks to Aboagye and other teachers, students of Ako did better than ever on the standardized tests. Salomey, a former student at Ako at the time, recalled, “Everyone was jumping up and down,” after a teacher announced the school had met the requirements. The same process of changing answers continued at Ako for about five years. In the fifth year, nine other teachers were helping Aboagye change answers. Later in that year, the investigation unit of the Ghana Education Service (GES) visited Ako and other Pru District schools. The results of the investigation showed that, teachers and administrators at 20 schools had cheated in the manner that Aboagye had. Also, 78 teachers who had confessed or been accused of cheating were placed on administrative leave, including Aboagye. Later, Aboagye’ employment was terminated. (All characters used in the case are hypothetical)

1. In this case study, indicate and explain two benefits and three disadvantages of falsifying the results (make reference to relevant ethical theories and/or approaches).

2. Do you think cheating can ever be ethically justifiable? Why or why not (Explain three reasons – make reference to relevant ethical approaches)?