The data below represent commute times​ (in minutes) and scores on a​ well-being survey. Complete parts​ (a) through​ (d) below.

​(a) Find the​ least-squares regression line treating the commute​ time, x, as the explanatory variable and the index​ score, y, as the response variable.

ModifyingAbove y with caretyequals=nothingxplus+left parenthesis nothing right parenthesis

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

​(b) Interpret the slope and​ y-intercept, if appropriate. Interpret the slope. Select the correct choice below​ and, if​ necessary, fill in the answer box to complete your choice.

A.For an index score of​ zero, the commute time is predicted to be

nothing

minutes.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

B.For every unit increase in index​ score, the commute time

fallsfalls

by

nothing​,

on average.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

C.For every unit increase in commute​ time, the index score

fallsfalls

by

nothing​,

on average.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

D.For a commute time of zero​ minutes, the index score is predicted to be

nothing.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

E.

It is not appropriate to interpret the slope.

Interpret the​ y-intercept. Select the correct choice below​ and, if​ necessary, fill in the answer box to complete your choice.

A.For an index score of​ zero, the commute time is predicted to be

nothing

minutes.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

B.For every unit increase in commute​ time, the index score

fallsfalls

by

nothing​,

on average.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

C.For every unit increase in index​ score, the commute time

fallsfalls

by

nothing​,

on average.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

D.For a commute time of zero​ minutes, the index score is predicted to be

nothing.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

E.

It is not appropriate to interpret the​ y-intercept.

​(c) Predict the​ well-being index of a person whose commute time is

2525

minutes.The predicted index score is

nothing.

​(Round to one decimal place as​ needed.)

​(d) Suppose Barbara has a

2020​-minute

commute and scores

66.766.7

on the survey. Is Barbara more​ "well-off" than the typical individual who has a

2020​-minute

​commute? Select the correct choice below and fill in the answer box to complete your choice.

​(Round to one decimal place as​ needed.)

A.​No, Barbara is less​ well-off because the typical individual who has a

2020​-minute

commute scores

nothing.

B.​Yes, Barbara is more​ well-off because the typical individual who has a

2020​-minute

commute scores

nothing.

Click to select your answer(s).

The data below represent commute times​ (in minutes) and scores on a​ well-being survey. Complete parts​ (a) through​ (d) below. Commute Time​ (minutes), x 5 15 30 40 50 84 105 ​Well-Being Index​ Score, y 68.9 67.6 65.8 64.9 64.0 61.5 58.8 ​(a) Find the​ least-squares regression line treating the commute​ time, x, as the explanatory variable and the index​ score, y, as the response variable. ModifyingAbove y with caret equalsnothingxplusleft parenthesis nothing right parenthesis ​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.) ​(b) Interpret the slope and​ y-intercept, if appropriate. Interpret the slope. Select the correct choice below​ and, if​ necessary, fill in the answer box to complete your choice.

A.

For every unit increase in commute​ time, the index score

falls

by

nothing

​,

on average.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

B.

For an index score of​ zero, the commute time is predicted to be

nothing

minutes.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

C.

For every unit increase in index​ score, the commute time

falls

by

nothing

​,

on average.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

D.

For a commute time of zero​ minutes, the index score is predicted to be

nothing

.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

E.

It is not appropriate to interpret the slope.

Interpret the​ y-intercept. Select the correct choice below​ and, if​ necessary, fill in the answer box to complete your choice.

A.

For an index score of​ zero, the commute time is predicted to be

nothing

minutes.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

B.

For every unit increase in commute​ time, the index score

falls

by

nothing

​,

on average.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

C.

For a commute time of zero​ minutes, the index score is predicted to be

nothing

.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

D.

For every unit increase in index​ score, the commute time

falls

by

nothing

​,

on average.

​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

E.

It is not appropriate to interpret the​ y-intercept.

​(c) Predict the​ well-being index of a person whose commute time is

25

minutes.

The predicted index score is

nothing

.

​(Round to one decimal place as​ needed.)

​(d) Suppose Barbara has a

20

​-minute

commute and scores

66.2

on the survey. Is Barbara more​ "well-off" than the typical individual who has a

20

​-minute

​commute? Select the correct choice below and fill in the answer box to complete your choice.

​(Round to one decimal place as​ needed.)

A.

​Yes, Barbara is more​ well-off because the typical individual who has a

20

​-minute

commute scores

nothing

.

B.

​No, Barbara is less​ well-off because the typical individual who has a

20

​-minute

commute scores

nothing

.

A study of identity theft looked at how well consumers protect themselves from this increasingly prevalent crime. The behaviors of 61 college students were compared with the behaviors of 59 nonstudents. One of the questions was "When asked to create a password, I have used either my mother's maiden name, or my pet's name, or my birth date, or the last four digits of my social security number, or a series of consecutive numbers." For the students, 24 agreed with this statement while 29 of the nonstudents agreed. (a) Display the data in a two-way table. Students Nonstudents Total Agreed 24 Correct: Your answer is correct. 29 Correct: Your answer is correct. 53 Correct: Your answer is correct. Disagreed 37 Correct: Your answer is correct. 30 Correct: Your answer is correct. 67 Correct: Your answer is correct. Total 61 Correct: Your answer is correct. 59 Correct: Your answer is correct. 120 Perform the chi-square test. (Round your χ2 to three decimal places and round your P-value to four decimal places.) χ2 = 2.221 Incorrect: Your answer is incorrect. df = 1 Correct: Your answer is correct. P-value = 0.1362 Incorrect: Your answer is incorrect. Summarize the results. We cannot conclude at the 5% level that students and nonstudents differ in the response to this question. We can conclude at the 5% level that students and nonstudents differ in the response to this question. Correct: Your answer is correct. (b) Reanalyze the data using the methods for comparing two proportions that we studied in the previous chapter. Compare the results and verify that the chi-square statistic is the square of the z statistic. (Test students who agreed minus nonstudents who agreed. Round your z to two decimal places and round your P-value to four decimal places.) z = 1.49 Incorrect: Your answer is incorrect. P-value = 0.1362 Incorrect: Your answer is incorrect. (c) The students in this study were junior and senior college students from two sections of a course in Internet marketing at a large northeastern university. The nonstudents were a group of individuals who were recruited to attend commercial focus groups on the West Coast conducted by a lifestyle marketing organization. Discuss how the method of selecting the subjects in this study relates to the conclusions that can be drawn from it.

1 - Peavey Enterprises purchased a depreciable asset for $25,500 on April 1, Year 1. The asset will be depreciated using the straight-line method over its four-year useful life. Assuming the asset's salvage value is $2,700, what will be the amount of accumulated depreciation on this asset on December 31, Year 3?

Multiple Choice

$19,000

$5,700

$22,800

$15,675

$4,750

2- During the first week of January, an employee works 49 hours. For this company, workers earn 150% of their regular rate for hours in excess of 40 per week. Her pay rate is $20 per hour, and her wages are subject to no deductions other than FICA Social Security, FICA Medicare, and federal income taxes. The tax rate for Social Security is 6.2% of the first $118,500 earned each calendar year and the FICA tax rate for Medicare is 1.45% of all earnings. The current FUTA tax rate is 0.6%, and the SUTA tax rate is 5.4%. Both unemployment taxes are applied to the first $7,000 of an employee’s pay. The employee has $83 in federal income taxes withheld. What is the amount of this employee’s gross pay for the first week of January?

Multiple Choice

$1,010

$1,070

$1,470

$1,528

$1,370

3 - The chief executive officer earns $22,000 per month. As of May 31, her gross pay was $110,000. The tax rate for Social Security is 6.2% of the first $118,500 earned each calendar year and the FICA tax rate for Medicare is 1.45% of all earnings. The current FUTA tax rate is 0.6%, and the SUTA tax rate is 5.4%. Both unemployment taxes are applied to the first $7,000 of an employee’s pay. What is the amount of FICA- Social Security withheld from this employee for the month of June?

Multiple Choice

$7,347.00

$527.00

$1,364.00

$123.25

$319.00

4- The chief executive officer earns $20,500 per month. As of May 31, her gross pay was $102,500. The tax rate for Social Security is 6.2% of the first $118,500 earned each calendar year and the FICA tax rate for Medicare is 1.45% of all earnings. The current FUTA tax rate is 0.6%, and the SUTA tax rate is 5.4%. Both unemployment taxes are applied to the first $7,000 of an employee’s pay. What is the amount of FICA - Medicare withheld from this employee for the month of June?

Multiple Choice

$7,347.00

$992.00

$1,271.00

$232.00

$297.25

Income tax rates schedule “ (1) for the Personal Income Tax Net income which does not exceed 300,000 baht 5 percent Net income which only the amount in excess of    300,000 baht but not exceeding    500,000 baht 10 percent Net income which only the amount in excess of    500,000 baht but not exceeding    750,000 baht    15 percent Net income which only the amount in excess of    750,000 baht   but not exceeding 1,000,000 baht   20 percent Net income which only the amount in excess of    1,000,000 baht but not exceeding 2,000,000 baht     25 percent Net income which only the amount in excess of    2,000,000 baht but not exceeding 5,000,000 baht 30 percent       Net income which only the amount in excess of    5,000,000 baht 35 percent   (the Revenue Code as amended by the Revenue Code Amendment Act (No. 45) B.E.2560) which is applicable for assessable income in the tax year 2560 which tax return shall be filed in 2561 onwards) “ (2) for the Corporate Income Tax “ (a) The tax on net profits of a company or juristic partnership is 20 percent” (Amended by the Revenue Code Amendment Act (No.42) B.E. 2559 (2016) which is applicable for the accounting periods on or after 1 january B.E. 2559 (2016)) “(b) The tax under section 70 not specified in (c) is 15 percent” “(c) The tax under section 70 specified in the case of the payment of assessable income under section 40(4)(b) is 10 percent (d) The tax under section 70 Bis is 10 percent” (Amended by the Revenue Code Amendment Emergency Decree (No.16) B.E. 2534 (1991) which has come into force as from 1 may B.E. 2535 (1992)) “(e) The tax on revenue before deducting any expense of a foundation or association which carries on business that produces revenue not be revenue under section 65 Bis (13) is 10 percent” (Amended by the Revenue Code Amendment Emergency Decree (No.16) B.E. 2534 (1991) which is applicable for the accounting periods on or after 1 january B.E. 2535 (1992))

PRACTICE: Mr. A = Man = husband = employee Mrs. B = Woman = wife = entrepreneur Both are married with 2 children aged 15 and 13. In the year 2017, Mr. A worked as a teacher earning a salary of 50,000 baht per month. The wife engaged in real estate sales brokerage as an entrepreneur and earned a commission of 2.5% on each sale. For the entire 2017, Mrs. B earned 500,000 Baht in commission from real estate sales. The couple paid 5,000 each for life insurance premium. Mrs. B also paid 1,000 Baht per month on health insurance for herself. The couple made a contribution of 5,000 Baht per month to retirement account under Mr. A's name because his employer has a individual retirement account. In the middle of 2017, the couple rented their condo for 10,000 Baht per month. The money from rent was put into a savings account earning 2.5% interest. Each year in December, the couple attend the Red Cross fund raising event. In 2017, the couple donated 50,000 Baht to the Red Cross. QUESTION: What is the income tax liability for the couple if they file a joint return?

Witholding form

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uVdK6lnPASeZj2DC-9OQRNnYyi4u5Epy/view?usp=drivesdk

Personal income tax https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vhn1jm6eo7uKSP74CNa2z0OixIUd5-FX/view?usp=drivesdk

1. An individual has a stroke that affects their reticular formation in the brainstem.  What types of symptoms would you expect?

2. An individual has a stroke that affects their thalamus.  What is one difficulty that they could experience?  What about the thalamus would lead to this symptom?  

3. An individual has a stroke that affects their hippocampus.  What types of symptoms would you expect?  

Intellectual property is work that is originally thought of by an individual and then created by that individual giving him/her the rights to such property. For this week’s discussion question respond to the following prompts:

• Assess the need to secure such intellectual property in its digital form.
• Compare this with the need to secure information data.
• Support your stance with a rationale of which you think is the most important for an individual to secure

Each year businesses, individuals, and governments face the impact of droughts, fires, hurricanes, tornados, and floods; all disrupting lives and the economy. This is a good time to talk about the environment. In the US, issues of the environment and global warming arguably take a backseat to the economy and current political rhetoric and civil strife.  For several years former presidential candidate Al Gore tried to raise awareness about global warming and the roles of business, government, and industry and is currently in the news with his An Inconvenient Truth, Sequel. Even though 2016 and 2017 were reported to be the warmest years on record, whether he or others will have an impact in the US or abroad is yet to be fully seen. Environmental stewardship is not without consequences (good or bad) and failure has legal, ethical, societal, financial considerations.

As other issues fade, the environment may resurface as a prime-time news issue. How it will rank with the current presidential agenda, the economy (jobs, military funding, and federal budget), the continuing healthcare issues, conflicts in the Mideast, and other pressing topics facing the US federal government will be interesting. Certainly the private business sector faces pressure from both internal and external stakeholders when the banners of environmental protection and social responsibility are hoisted. The question of corporate moral responsibility for the environment can easily fade from the media spotlight until a public figure promotes the message or an environmental crisis erupts and CNN or 60 Minutes or some other news agency appears at the corporate headquarters demanding answers with cameras running.

Beyond the legislated and governmental mandates (EPA, UN Environment Programme, or the Stockholm Declaration, among others), how far should corporate responsibility for the environment extend? For example, do trees, lakes, oceans, and animals have rights? Why, or why not? Could there be such a thing as a “one-level-removed-stakeholder” that would include "non-human" stakeholders? What is the likely outcome if environmental issues continue to succumb to political rhetoric and business profit/loss statements? So what if the dozen or so residents of a South Pacific atoll are displaced due to rising sea levels or a butterfly in the Amazon rainforest goes extent due to deforestation?

Discussion Questions:

Outcomes/Consequences:

What is the impact or consequences of considering environmental implications in business decisions?

Who/what are the stakeholders and what are the interests of each?

What are the consequences for each stakeholder?

What are the possible outcomes when addressing environmental issues in business decisions?

A sales and marketing management magazine conducted a survey on salespeople cheating on their expense reports and other unethical conduct. In the survey on 200 managers, 58% of the managers have caught salespeople cheating on an expense report, 50% have caught salespeople working a second job on company time, 22% have caught salespeople listing a “bar” as a restaurant on an expense report, and 19% have caught salespeople giving a kickback to a customer. To convert the data into useful information, construct a 95% confidence interval estimate of the population proportion of managers who have caught salespeople cheating on an expense report, determine the critical value, and sampling error. Explain what management can learn from the 95% confidence interval estimate of the population proportion of managers who have caught salespeople cheating on an expense report.