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A national sports magazine believes that 38% of Americans said they were fans of baseball. A polling company claims more Americans are fans of baseball. A random sample of 400 people indicated that 176 were baseball fans. Use a 0.01 level of significance. Answer each of the following.

a. State the null and alternate hypothesis. Make sure to use the proper notation.

b. Identify the claim.

c. Which test will you use to test the claim? Left tailed, right-tailed or two tailed?

d. What is the sample proportion?

e. If the P-value is 0.0067, what decision can be made? Reject the null hypothesis or fail to reject the null hypothesis?

f. State the conclusion in words.

The article presents an analysis of the current outlook of the highest court in the United States. We often think of courts (and especially the Supreme Court) as dispassionate and thoroughly objective institutions. Yet as the text materials in Chapter One discuss, there are various schools of jurisprudence, some of whom try to examine the ways in which courts really operate. Robin Conrad and Ralph Nader have opposed views on the current court that appear prominently in the article.

Link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/magazine/16supreme-t.html?_r=3&scp=2&sq=rosen+supreme+court+inc&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Describe their respective viewpoints. Does this article change your impression of the Supreme Court? Why or why not?

a)  A manager of AAA Supermarket proposed a new strategy to increase sales of products. He believes that the true mean of sales is more than RM2000. Thus, the hypothesis statement is as follow:

H₀: μ > RM2000.

H₁: μ < RM2000.

i.      Comment on the hypothesis statement. Give a correct suggestion.

ii.    What is the other TWO (2) information needed in performing the hypothesis testing in part (b)?

b)    The Health Magazine reported that 17% of children in Bandar A do not eat vegetables. To test this reported value, a researcher surveyed 90 children in Bandar A and found that 22 do not eat the vegetables. There are 2 part.. ((difference method in bi , bii))

i.      Construct 95% confidence interval for the percentage of children who do not eat the vegetables.

ii.    At 5% significance level, test whether the reported value is correct or not.

Find and analyze an article (first published in the last 28 days) about some topic dealing with nutrition and/or exercise addressing a hypothesis. This can come from a newspaper, magazine or other periodical.Analyze the article and address the following:

1. What hypothesis was tested?

2. How was it tested?

3. Was the hypothesis supported or rejected?

4. Is the sponsor of the science mentioned? This could be a university where research was conducted, a company that supplied funding, etc. Do you think the sponsor may have influenced the science? By that I mean do you think the source of funding could lead to a conflict of interest?

5. What are some implications of this research?

6. What could you do if you wanted to find out more about the topic? Be more specific.

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1.Patient suffers from skin disease in tropics, name resembles one of Columbus’ ships.
2. Patient suffers high fever and malaise after drinking raw milk
3. Patient from South American country has heart disease- many years before recalls suffering swollen eye when living in a shack like house, infested with blood sucking bugs.
4. Patient from Equatorial Africa has hemolytic disease, chills, fever of 104, splenomegaly.
5. Patient from Central Africa exhibit’s several small coiled worms in cornea, causing cloudiness and necessitating a corneal transplant.
6. Patient from rural southern US exhibits , lethargy, iron deficiency anemia and a desire to eat clay. Reports a habit of walking barefoot.
7. Patient who had polio in 50s is now suffering paralysis.
8. Elderly patient presents with unilateral vesicular lesions , later followed by extreme neuralgia that last for months.
9. Patient in western US, presents with greatly enlarged cervical lymph nodes, fever, extreme prostration, numerous petechiae, causing a blackening of skin. Reports being an avid rock collector.
10. Patient presents with bladder-like lesions in eye, reports returning form Spain, likes pork.d
11 Patient exhibits vomiting and diarrhea, no fever , several hours after eating ham salad sandwich.

The American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN; www.aspan.org) is a national organization serving nurses practicing in ambulatory surgery, preanesthesia, and postanesthesia care. The organization's membership is listed below.

by economist Richard Thaler, “The Power of Nudges, for Good and Bad,” nudging is described as strategies that encourage consumers to buy products that they might otherwise not consider and "The Rise of the Nudge" by Tamsin Rudder describes nudges in the service of government.

a.) Provide a real life example of a "nudge" being used to encourage consumer behavior by a corporation, government or, organization that has led to improved utility or welfare of those being nudged.

b.) Explain how the nudging you cited as an example did or did not meet the other two principles of Thaler's guide for the use of nudge.

ECONOMIC VIEW
By Richard H. Thaler
Oct. 31, 2015

Nudges, small design changes that can markedly affect individual behavior, have been catching on. These techniques rely on insights from behavioral science, and when used ethically, they can be very helpful. But we need to be sure that they aren’t being employed to sway people to make bad decisions that they will later regret.

Whenever I’m asked to autograph a copy of “Nudge,” the book I wrote with Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor, I sign it, “Nudge for good.” Unfortunately, that is meant as a plea, not an expectation.

Three principles should guide the use of nudges:

■ All nudging should be transparent and never misleading.
■ It should be as easy as possible to opt out of the nudge, preferably with as little as one mouse click.
■ There should be good reason to believe that the behavior being encouraged will improve the welfare of those being
nudged.
As far as I know, the government teams in Britain and the United States that have focused on nudging have followed these guidelines scrupulously. But the private sector is another matter. In this domain, I see much more troubling
behavior.

For example, last spring I received an email telling me that the first prominent review of a new book of mine had appeared: It was in The Times of London. Eager to read the review, I clicked on a hyperlink, only to run into a pay wall. Still, I was tempted by an offer to take out a one-month trial subscription for the price of just £1.

As both a consumer and producer of newspaper articles, I have no beef with pay walls. But before signing up, I read the fine print. As expected, I would have to provide credit card information and would be automatically enrolled as a
subscriber when the trial period expired. The subscription rate would then be £26 (about $40) a month. That wasn’t a concern because I did not intend to become a paying subscriber. I just wanted to read that one article.

But the details turned me off. To cancel, I had to give 15 days’ notice, so the one-month trial offer actually was good for just two weeks. What’s more, I would have to call London, during British business hours, and not on a toll-free number. That was both annoying and worrying. As an absent-minded American professor, I figured there was a good chance I would end up subscribing for several months, and that reading the article would end up costing me at least £100.

I spoke to Chris Duncan, a spokesman for The Times of London. He said his company wanted readers to call before canceling to make sure that they appreciated the scope of the paper’s coverage, but when I pointed out the inconvenience this posed to readers outside Britain, he said that the company might rethink that aspect of the
policy.

In the meantime, that deal qualifies as a nudge that violates all three of my guiding principles: The offer was misleading, not transparent; opting out was cumbersome; and the entire package did not seem to be in the best interest of a potential subscriber, as opposed to the publisher.

I ran into another type of bad nudging when I tried to book a ticket on United Airlines to travel from Chicago to New York. Before the airline would allow me to buy online, it required that I indicate whether I wanted trip insurance. This sort of required choice is justifiable when there is a genuine concern that the consumer might make a big blunder. I would endorse posing such a question to anyone opting out of all of an employer’s sponsored health insurance options, for example. We wouldn’t want someone to go without health insurance just because of a careless oversight.

United went a step further, though. It asked me to select “yes” or “no” before buying a ticket and highlighted the “yes” option as “recommended.” Required choice plus a recommendation qualifies as a strong nudge. But is it a nudge for good?

Consider the details: The trip insurance would cost $20.13 for a flight that itself would cost only $300. Keep in mind that the insurance covers just the nonrefundable portion of the ticket. (Normally the charge for changing a flight on United is $200, and the insurance would cover this.) I also learned, deep in the fine-print weeds, that to collect on the
policy, unless the flight were canceled or delayed, I would need a doctor’s note saying that I was too sick to fly safely, and would have to file such documentation within 72 hours of canceling the trip.

If my flight connected up with a cruise, the insurance might make sense, because with the insurance I could receive compensation when a delayed or canceled flight made me miss my rendezvous with a cruise ship. But I wasn’t going
on a cruise.

As an alternative, I examined a fully refundable ticket, which would cost $856. United still recommended trip insurance and charged more for it ($49.23) even though this ticket was refundable. Rahsaan Johnson, a United spokesman, said the company recommended “insurance to protect against unintended expenses that may result
from circumstances beyond the travelers’ and the airline’s control,” but said the pricing is set by Allianz, which provides the insurance. Daniel Durazo, an Allianz spokesman, said it priced the insurance as a percentage of the ticket cost, but would not say whether that formula made sense.

On the positive side, opting out of these offers was easy, but the nudges flunked my other tests: They were neither transparent nor in the best interest of most customers.

These examples are not unusual. Many companies are nudging purely for their own profit and not in customers’ best interests. In a recent column in The New York Times, Robert Shiller called such behavior “phishing.” Mr. Shiller and George Akerlof, both Nobel-winning economists, have written a book on the subject, “Phishing for Phools.”

Some argue that phishing — or evil nudging — is more dangerous in government than in the private sector. The argument is that government is a monopoly with coercive power, while we have more choice in the private sector over which newspapers we read and which airlines we fly.

I think this distinction is overstated. In a democracy, if a government creates bad policies, it can be voted out of office. Competition in the private sector, however, can easily work to encourage phishing rather than stifle it.

One example is the mortgage industry in the early 2000s. Borrowers were encouraged to take out loans that they could not repay when real estate prices fell. Competition did not eliminate this practice, because it was hard for anyone to make money selling the advice “Don’t take that loan.”

As customers, we can help one another by resisting these come-ons. The more we turn down questionable offers like trip insurance and scrutinize “one month” trials, the less incentive companies will have to use such schemes.
Conversely, if customers reward firms that act in our best interests, more such outfits will survive and flourish, and the options available to us will improve.

Oriole Co. sells $404,000 of 12% bonds on June 1, 2017. The bonds pay interest on December 1 and June 1. The due date of the bonds is June 1, 2021. The bonds yield 10%. On October 1, 2018, Oriole buys back $125,240 worth of bonds for $130,240 (includes accrued interest).

Prepare a bond amortization schedule using the effective-interest method for discount and premium amortization. Amortize premium or discount on interest dates and at year-end. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 38,548.)

Schedule of Bond Discount Amortization

Effective-Interest Method

Bonds Sold to Yield

Date Cash Paid Interest Expense Discount Amortized Carrying Amount of Bonds

6/1/17 $ $ $ $

12/1/17

6/1/18

12/1/18

6/1/19

12/1/19

6/1/20

12/1/20

6/1/21

* Difference due to rounding

Prepare all of the relevant journal entries from the time of sale until the date indicated. Give entries through December 1, 2019. (Assume that no reversing entries were made.) (Round present value factor calculations to 5 decimal places, e.g. 1.25124 and the final answer to 0 decimal places e.g. 58,971. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)

Journalize the closing entries. Then post the journal to the general ledger you created in part 1. Indicate closed accounts by inserting a line in both the balance columns opposite the closing entry. Insert the new balance in the retained earnings account.

Palisade Creek Co. is a merchandising business that uses the perpetual inventory system. The account balances for Palisade Creek Co. as of May 1, 2018, are as follows: Assume all accounts have normal balances.

During May, the last month of the fiscal year, the following transactions were completed:

Record the following transactions on page 20 of the journal. Refer to the Chart of Accounts for exact wording of account titles.

Record the following transactions on page 21 of the journal. Refer to the Chart of Accounts for exact wording of account titles.

Palisade Creek Co. is a merchandising business that uses the perpetual inventory system. The account balances for Palisade Creek Co. as of May 1, 2018, are as follows: Assume all accounts have normal balances.

During May, the last month of the fiscal year, the following transactions were completed:

Record the following transactions on page 20 of the journal. Refer to the Chart of Accounts for exact wording of account titles.

Record the following transactions on page 21 of the journal. Refer to the Chart of Accounts for exact wording of account titles.