9. You are interested in studying the average duration of time (in minutes) it takes Temple University students to drive to campus. The conventional wisdom is that on average it takes students 30 minutes to drive to campus. To examine this, you randomly sample n=15 students and record this information. From the sample, you compute a sample mean of 26 with a sample standard deviation of 6. Conduct a two-tailed hypothesis test with 95% confidence. Then, construct a 95% confidence interval to confirm your answer.

In 2015, the student body of Lock Haven University consisted of 30% freshmen, 24% sophomores, 26% juniors, and 20% seniors. A sample of 300 students taken from this year's student body showed the following number of students in each classification.

We are interested in determining whether or not there has been a significant change in the classifications between the last school year and this school year. The calculated value for the test statistic equals?

A girl throws a rock horizontally, with a velocity of 10 m/s, from a bridge. It falls 20 m to the water below. a) How long does it take for the rock to reach the water? b) How far does the rock travel horizontally before striking the water, assuming negligible air resistance? c) what is the final horizontal velocity of the ball ? d)What is the final vertical velocity of the ball? e) the magnitude of the final velocity of the ball,

Physics University 1

According to a recent​ report, 46% of college student internships are unpaid. A recent survey of 60 college interns at a local university found that 31 had unpaid internships.

a. Use the​ five-step p-value approach to hypothesis testing and a 0.05 level of significance to determine whether the proportion of college interns that had unpaid internships is different from 0.46.

b. Assume that the study found that 3838 of the 6060 college interns had unpaid internships and repeat​ (a). Are the conclusions the​ same?

Best Buy ranks number 72 on the Fortune 500; it is the largest consumer electronics retailer in the world. Best known for its discounted high-quality products, customer centered approach, sustainable outreach, and extensive recycling program. Best Buy is listed as a “socially responsible” company. It was founded by Richard Schulze in 1966. Since then the company has undergone many changes.

College students, who wanted higher-end electronics, were the first customers they targeted. In 2000, when sales growth slowed, Best Buy acquired Geek Squad, a repair service. This acquisition led to their Concept 5 stores, where products are sold, and customers taught how to use them. This improved service turnaround time and increased customer satisfaction. By 2009, the company became the primary online and brick-and-mortar provider of consumer electronics.

             Best Buy views itself as a customer-centered organization. The company uses www.BestBuy.com to learn more about its customer needs and preferences. Customers can use that website to rate every product purchased. In 2007, the Company published its first Corporate Social Responsibility Report (SR) as result of the customers concern for sustainability. Electronic waste was filling landfills, and their customers wanted to see this problem addressed. In response to their concerns, Best Buy implemented a wide-scale electronics recycling program.   In 2009 Best Buy set a goal to reduce carbon emissions by 45%; by the end of 2016 they had reached nearly 47%.

             Today Best Buy employs a Chief Ethics Office and maintains a blog for company employees; it covers ethical lapses and related issues. Employees can visit the website and read about the company policy regarding ethically questionable behaviors and learn tips on how to best defend themselves from crossing ethical boundaries. Hubert Joly was appointed CEO in 2012 after a scandal forced out CEO, Brian Dunn and Chairman, Richard Schulz.

Under Joly, Best Buy, once again, became a growth company. He implemented its “Renew Blue” strategy, adding new product lines and services and emphasizing both in-store and online customer opportunities. Its Geek Squad division began an in-store, online, and home advisory program. He expanded into both Canadian and Mexican markets. Operations in China and Europe were closed to reduce costs, and he closed some domestic stores, under his lean management mandate.

             To improve customer service, the “Geek Squad hours were expanded to provide 24-hour service on site, at home, or through the Internet. The tech experts make about 4 million home calls a year. Walmart and Amazon their biggest competitors do not offer comparable at-home services. In March 2017, “Renew Blue” was officially closed by Joly and pronounced a success.

             In 2017, Joly announced the company will implement “Best Buy 2020 - Building the New Blue.” Best Buy began a try-before-you-buy program which allows the customer to rent gadgets such as audio equipment, fitness trackers, smartwatches, and cameras. If the customer decides to keep the product, 20% of the rental fee is deducted and applied to the final cost of the product.

             Best Buy will continue demonstrating new technology solutions, contracts and services and sustainability . The company plans to enhance their smart home areas in all stores, roll out its Best Buy Smart Home Powered by Vivint home automation and security offering to 450 stores, which will add 1,500 dedicated smart home employees. The “Geek Squad” expanded services will include “Smart Home ‘Total Tech Services, which will service every electronic product in your home no matter where the product was purchased and create a totally integrated technology system for your home.

Another service Best Buy will provide is the Smart Home Senior Care Services,” which is considered an “untapped white space opportunity.” The electronic “Assured Living” system will allow millennials /caregivers to look in on their aging parents while permitting the seniors to live independently. Mr. Joly envisions rolling out a broader business of sensor-based senior services, sold through health-and-wellness departments in Best Buy’s more than 1,000 stores.   With an aging population in the U.S., there will be 70 million people who will be seniors in 2027. Best Buy sees this growth opportunity and will use the Smart Home Business and its ability to get into people’s home as a trusted adviser.

Question:

How does Best Buy deal with ethically questionable behaviors, in short essay form

Jack Hammer Company completed the following transactions. The annual accounting period ends December 31.

Required:

1. 1. & 2. Prepare journal entries for each of the transactions through August 31 and adjusting entries required on December 31.

2. 3. Show how all of the liabilities arising from these items are reported on the balance sheet at December 31.

Create a Java windows application to manage a list of stocks

1. Add a class Stock with the following fields: companyName, pricePerShare, numberOfShares (currently owned)
and commission (this is the percent you pay a financial company when you purchase or sell stocks.

Add constructor, getters

and methods:
***purchaseShares (method that takes the number of shares purchased, updates the stock and return the cost of purchasing these shares make sure to include commission.
***sellShares (method that takes the number of shares to sell, updates the stock and return the $amount earned from the sell.
***getInvestmentAmount() is a method that returns the current value of your investments in that stock

Build the Frame layout design to allow a user to enter a stock, to save the stock to a file and to an arrayList as well.
When the program first start, check if the file exists and if so read all the stocks from the file and add them to the arrayList.

add a button to display all the stocks to a JTable

Add a necessary gui to purchase shares of the selected stock

Add necessary gui to sell shares of the selected stock
  

i use netbeans but i cant get it

Read the following case-lets and answer the questions

Ms Meera has received a gift from her father of Rs 2,00,000 on her 25th birthday and wishes to invest in stocks. She wants to start with creating a Two-asset portfolio. She has approached you her good friend whom she trusts to provide her guidance regarding how to create a Two-asset portfolio.
You being a fresh MBA graduate from premium B-school are looking forward to conduct a research on the securities to be included in the 2-Asset portfolio and give her an informed advice. From your research you identify 2 securities- namely S1 and S2 and have gathered the following data about them.
Particulars S1 S2 Expected Return 15% 20% Std deviation 12% 16% Coefficient of correlation (r) between S1 and S2 = 0.15. After her giving her this basic information; Meera wants to know if she goes for following different combinations of portfolios
1. All funds are invested either only in S1 or S2
2. 75% of funds in S1 and 25% in S2 3. 25% of funds in S1 and 75% in S2 4. 50% of funds in each S1 and S2
What would be the expected return and risk associated under different portfolios?
Which portfolio is best for her from point of risk and which portfolio is best from point of view of return?

Review the discussion question and answer below. Do you agree with the answer? why or why not? Give your opinion.

Discussion Question:

1. Suppose an employer gives employees an insurance discount based on number of hours of physical fitness activities. Who benefits from the program? Who is harmed? Is this ethical?

2. Suppose an employer charges all employees the same premium, regardless of their health habits, Who benefits? Who is harmed? Is this ethical?

Answer:

1) In such a scenario, all the concerned parties, i.e the employer , insurance company and the employees will benefit from the program. When the employee is encouraged to participate in physical activities, it would help in improving the health and wellness of the employee. Also, the employee would receive discounts on their insurance program. The improvement in health will lead to an increase in the productivity of the employee and make him more efficient at the workplace. This could be due to the fact that a healthy body leads to a healthy mind, which in turn will lead to fewer episodes of absenteeism from workplace on account of ill health.

These benefits due to a better health benefit both the employee and the employer. Also, the insurance company will be benefit as they would have lesser insurance claims to settle on account of ill health.

However, if the organization imposes extreme methods to encourage physical fitness or expects the employees to follow rigorous physical activities in order to claim the discounts then it could prove to be detrimental to both the employer and the employee. It is a known fact that people tend to dislike imposition of extreme forms of physical activities. Under such a scenario, employees would feel burdened with the program and will lose enthusiasm towards the workplace. The employer will also be at loss. Employer could lose talented employees and also the organization will have to incur monetary losses in case the program fails.

The program can be ethical if the limits and the conditions to qualify for discounts, the kind of physical activity expected, the amount of physical activity expected etc is discussed and implemented after consultation with the employees. If the physical fitness activities are left to the discretion of the employees without much interference from the organization, then it may be ethical.

However, if the organization is the sole planner of the entire program and imposes difficult and strenuous physical activities to be completed or threatens the employees with fines or other punishments for refusing to participate in the program then it can be unethical and harmful to both the employer and the employee.

2)  When an employer charges same premium regardless of health habits it is beneficial to the employer and employee. It provides full premium to the employee and any sudden health problems can also be covered as health will not be the same always. This also makes everyone in the company equal and gives equal rights and benefits to everyone which is also ethical.

Each of the variables are described as follows.

Feelings towards Barack Obama are measured 0-100 with higher values indicating more positive opinions.

Gender is variable that equals 1 for respondents who identify as female and 0 for respondents who do not.

Race is a variable that equals 1 for respondents who identify as white and 0 for respondents who do not.

Age is the number of years the respondent reports having been alive.

Income is a 28-point scale with higher values denoting greater income earned.

Education is a four-point scale with higher values denoting greater educational attainment (High school or less, Some college, Finished college, Advanced degree).

Marital status is a variable that equals 1 for respondents who are married and 0 for respondents who are not.

Partisanship is the respondents’ self-placement on a seven-point scale ranging from 1 to 7 as follows: Strong Democrat, Weak Democrat, Democratic Leaning Independent, Independent, Republican Leaning Independent, Weak Republican, Strong Republican.

*Data:

Fill in the empty cells of the following table. (This should be used as a template for your own linear model included in your data project.)

Table 1. Regression Estimates of Attitudes Towards Obama

2. Using the table you created, answer the following questions (be sure to consult the regression slides on interpreting coefficients properly):

a. What effect does being female have on attitudes towards Obama?

b. What effect does being white have on attitudes towards Obama?

c. What is the relationship between age and attitudes towards Obama?

d. What is the relationship between income and attitudes towards Obama?

e. What is the relationship between education and attitudes towards Obama?

f. What is the relationship between partisanship and attitudes towards Obama?

g. What effect does being married have on attitudes towards Obama?

3. Elaborate on the previous answers by answering the following:

a. Holding all else equal, what effect does increasing one’s age by 15 years have on attitudes towards Obama? b. Holding all else constant, what effect does increasing one’s income by 10 points on this scale have on attitudes towards Obama?

c. Holding all else constant, what effect does moving from the lowest level of education to the highest level of education have on attitudes towards Obama?

d. Holding all else constant, what effect does moving from the lowest level of partisanship to the highest level of partisanship have on attitudes towards Obama?

4. Again using the table you created, answer the following questions:

a. What is the predicted score for Obama from a respondent who is (1) female (2) white (3) 40 years old (4) falls at the median value of income (5) finished college (6) identifies as a Democratic leaning Independent and (7) is married?

b. What is the predicted score for Obama from a respondent who is (1) male (2) white (3) 60 years old (4) has the highest level of income (5) never attended college (6) identifies as a Strong Republican and (7) is married?

c. What is the predicted score for Obama from a respondent who is (1) male (2) not white (3) 23 years old (4) has the sixth-lowest level of income (5) completed college (6) identifies as a Strong Democrat and (7) is not married?