Please write a paragraph of 5-7 well-developed sentences responding to the following short-answer prompt:

The price of gasoline and tolls or of mass transportation is one of the top concerns of young and old alike in today’s world. It especially hits students hard as they travel back and forth from school and work. What are some of the steps a student can take to ease the burden of this cost?

Make sure that you include a topic sentence and specific details and/or illustrations. When you are finished with the context, edit for grammar and syntax so that your full intended meaning comes through. Pay close attention to sentence structure and verb use, and try to combine choppy thoughts and sentences using compound and complex construction.

Consider 3 policies described below. In each case , explain what market failure, if any, the policy addresses.. Does this policy stimulate the growth? Whose interests are served by it? Is this policy an example of government failure?

(a)) Ontario's minimum wage jumped from $111.60 to $114 an hour at the start of 2018..

(b)) Every year,, Toronto Public Health provides free vaccination to Grade 7 students in the schools.. The three vaccines are::

• Meningococcal ( mandatory for school attendance )

• Human papillomavirus (HHPV))

• Hepatitis B

(c)) Canadian student attending the University for a four - year BA program and living at home with parents earning $550,000 a year under the current system would receive grants large enough to cover almost all the tuition

A statistics student who is curious about the relationship between the amount of time students spend on social networking sites and their performance at school decides to conduct a survey. Three research strategies for collecting data are described below. Match each strategy with the correct sampling method. He randomly samples 40 students from the study's population, gives them the survey, asks them to fill it out and bring it back the next day. Answer 1 He gives out the survey only to his friends, and makes sure each one of them fills out the survey. Answer 2 He posts a link to an online survey on his Facebook wall and asks his friends to fill out the survey. Answer 3

Resistance training is a popular form of conditioning aimed at enhancing sports performance and is widely used among high school, college, and professional athletes, although its use for younger athletes is controversial. Researchers obtained a random sample of 4094 patients between the ages of 8 and 30 who were admitted to U. S. emergency rooms with injuries classified by the Consumer Product Safety Commission code "weight-lifting." These injuries were further classified as " accidental" if caused by dropped weight or improper equipment use. Of the 4094 weight-lifting injuries, 1681 were classified as accidental.

What is a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of weight-lifting injuries in this age group that were accidental?

The 95% confidence interval (±±0.001) is from  to

Indicate which test (dependent samples t-test, independent samples t-test, independent samples z-test) is most appropriate for the following situation:

i. Comparison of mean recycling participation between 9 large cities and 11 small cities

ii. Comparison of the weights of 16 Toronto Maple Leaf rookies at the beginning versus the end of the regular NHL season.

iii. Comparison of fin length of 35 male and 37 female brook trout sampled in Spruce Lake, Nottingham Forest.

iv. Comparison of the mass of 100 grain fed calves versus 100 grazing calves.

v. Comparison of body weights of 16 male and 23 female students from Grade 9 classes at a high school.

7.40 People were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement that there is only one true love for each person. The table below gives a two-way table showing the answers to this question as well as the education level of the respondents. A person’s education is categorized as HS (high school degree or less), Some (some college) or College (college graduate or higher). Is the level of a person’s education related to how the person feels about one true love? If there is a significant association between these two variables, describe how they are related.

In 2017, Carson is claimed as a dependent on his parent's tax return. His parents' ordinary income marginal tax rate is 28 percent. Carson's parents provided most of his support.

What is Carson's tax liability for the year in each of the following alternative circumstances?  Use Tax Rate Schedule for reference.

a. Carson is 17 years old at year-end and earned $12,000 from his summer job and part-time job after school. This was his only source of income.

b. Carson is 23 years old at year-end. He is a full-time student and earned $12,000 from his summer internship and part-time job. He also received $5,000 of qualified dividend income.

To test whether extracurricular activity is a good predictor of college success, a college administrator records whether students participated in extracurricular activities during high school and their subsequent college freshman GPA.

(a) Code the dichotomous variable and then compute a point-biserial correlation coefficient. (Round your answer to three decimal places.)


(b) Using a two-tailed test at a 0.05 level of significance, state the decision to retain or reject the null hypothesis. Hint: You must first convert r to a t-statistic.

Retain the null hypothesis OR Reject the null hypothesis.    

Use the cumulative normal probability excel output above (dealing with the amount of money parents spend per child on back-to-school items) to answer the following question.

The probability is 0.38 that the amount spent on a randomly selected child will be between two values (in $) equidistant from the mean. The lower of these equidistant points is provided in the excel output above. Use the lower endpoint and some math to find the upper endpoint.

In 2018, Carson is claimed as a dependent on his parents' tax return. Carson's parents provided most of his support. What is Carson's tax liability for the year in each of the following alternative circumstances? Use 2018 Tax Rate Schedule, Dividends and Capital Gains Tax Rates, Estates and Trusts for reference. for reference.

a. Carson is 17 years old at year-end and earned $14,000 from his summer job and part-time job after school. This was his only source of income.

b. Carson is 23 years old at year-end. He is a full-time student and earned $14,000 from his summer internship and part-time job. He also received $5,000 of qualified dividend income.