An accounting firm has just contacted your consulting business for assistance. They want to hire someone to do accounting and payroll. The bookstore is downstairs, while the office is upstairs in an older building. The essential functions of the job include operating a computer, maintaining a ledger, providing the owner with financial statements, completing tax returns, paying bills and employees, and balancing the bank statements. The desk for this is at the top of a flight of 24 steps. There is no elevator, and the building is too old to be ADA compliant. The firm is struggling financially, but hopes to increase sales as a new coffee shop just opened next door. The most qualified applicant to their advertisement has just come into the bookstore in a wheelchair.

Discuss the meaning of disability as presented by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Assess whether this candidate is capable of performing the essential functions of this job from a wheelchair.
Analyze the issue of reasonable accommodation. What does the law say?
Summarize your consulting recommendations to the accounting firm. Could the employer make a reasonable accommodation to hire the best candidate for this job? How could they do that considering their tight finances?
Find a court case on ADA that has reached a verdict. How did the court case interpret the law as written? How might that outcome provide insight or application to the discussion scenario or to reasonable accommodation, in general?

A population proportion is 0.57. Suppose a random sample of 663 items is sampled randomly from this population.
a. What is the probability that the sample proportion is greater than 0.59?
b. What is the probability that the sample proportion is between 0.52 and 0.59?
c. What is the probability that the sample proportion is greater than 0.55?
d. What is the probability that the sample proportion is between 0.52 and 0.53?
e. What is the probability that the sample proportion is less than 0.48?

During lunchtime, customers arrive at Bob's Drugs according to a Poisson distribution with λ = 5 per minute. Show your answers to 3 decimal places.

What is the probability of one customer arriving?

What is the probability of more than two customers arriving?

What is the probability of at most three customers arriving?

What is the probability of at least four customers arriving?

What is the probability of fewer than two customers arriving?

A population proportion is 0.59. Suppose a random sample of 661 items is sampled randomly from this population.

a. What is the probability that the sample proportion is greater than 0.60?

b. What is the probability that the sample proportion is between 0.57 and 0.60?

c. What is the probability that the sample proportion is greater than 0.57?

d. What is the probability that the sample proportion is between 0.53 and 0.56?

e. What is the probability that the sample proportion is less than 0.49?

Dr. Lori Baker, operations manager at Nesa Electronics, prides herself on excellent assembly-line balancing. She has been told that the firm needs to complete 96 instruments per 24-hour day. The assembly-line activities are: TASK. TIME (min). PREDECESSORS. A 3 — B 6 — C 7 A D 5 A, B E 2 B F 4 C G 5 F H 7 D, E I 1 H J 6 E K 4 G, I, J Total 50 Draw the precedence diagram. If the daily (24-hour) production rate is 96 units, what is the highest allowable cycle time? minutes. If the cycle time after allowances is given as 10 minutes, what is the daily (24-hour) production rate? units per day. With a 10-minute cycle time, what is the theoretical minimum number of stations with which the line can be balanced? With a 10-minute cycle time and six workstations, what is the efficiency? % What is the total idle time per cycle with a 10-minute cycle time and six workstations? minutes.

A manager is trying to figure out which of her top 2 salespeople is the best, as measured by average number of sales made per week. Thus, she’s set up the following hypothesis test that they are equally as good, & if she can reject that hypothesis, she will conclude that the salesperson with the highest average weekly sales (Salesperson #2) is the best. She’s looked back at all the weeks worked for both employees to calculate the statistics below.

sales person 1 n1 = 80 , x¯1 = 104 ,σ1 = 8.4

Sales person 2 n2 = 70 ¯x2 = 106 σ2=7.6

a) Estimate the difference between the two population means. = -2

(b) Provide a 90% confidence interval for this mean difference.

(c) Provide a 95% confidence interval for this mean difference.

(d) Provide a 99% confidence interval for this mean difference.

(e) What is the value of the test statistic (the z -value)?

(f) What is the p-value?

(g) With α = 0.10, do you Reject H0 or Fail to reject H0?

(h) With α = 0.05, do you Reject H0 or Fail to reject H0?

Please explain this article

THE U.S. ECONOMY GREW at a modest but still-steady rate at the end of 2018, slowing considerably after sky-high midyear growth.

Gross domestic product, a broad measure of goods and services produced in the U.S., rose at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 2.6 percent in the final quarter of last year, according to initial numbers released

It's a significant dip from blockbuster reports earlier this year, when fallout from the Republican tax cut bill helped boost GDP growth to 4.2 percent in the second quarter and 3.4 percent in the third quarter, but experts say the growth is still a steady, albeit muted, showing.

The growth was driven by an uptick in consumer spending, particularly on motor vehicles and nondurable goods like prescription drugs, as well as health care services. Business investments, especially in intellectual property products, also fueled the growth.

Housing investments, however, dipped, counteracting other contributions. Retail sales also dropped in December.

GDP growth for the year hit 2.9 percent, the highest annual rate since 2015, whose number it matched.

A newly employed well-qualified data analyst suggested to the management that a more thorough analysis of the situation could be done by using data which includes ridership numbers in terms of bus routes combined with the time-slots information.

a. Plot the mean ridership against the factors using Minitab.
b. From this interaction diagram, which combinations of the TSlot and BRoute (‘treatment cells’ as they are called) have the highest and lowest mean ridership respectively?
c. Based on various residual plots, what can you say about the aptness of this model?

1. How many photons at 586 nm must be absorbed to melt 6.55 × 10² g of ice?
(It takes 334 J to melt 1 g of ice at 0° C. On average, how many H₂O molecules does one photon convert from ice to water?

2. The highest speed limit in the United States is 85.0 mph on an isolated stretch of rural interstate in Texas. What is the speed limit in kilometers per hour? (1 mi = 1609 m). Report your answer as a whole number.

3. A piece of metal with a mass of 22.1 g was dropped into a graduated cylinder containing 16.00 mL of water. The graduated cylinder after the addition of the metal is shown. Determine the density of the metal.

4. A lead sphere has a mass of 1.24 × 10⁴g, and its volume is 1.10 ×10³ cm³. Calculate its density.

5. Calculate the percent error for the following measurements: (a) The density of alcohol (ethanol) is found to be 0.8044 g/mL (true value = 0.7980 g/mL).  %(b) The mass of gold in an earring is analyzed to be 0.8455 g (true value = 0.8644 g).%