1/The heights of adult men in America are normally distributed, with a mean of 69.2 inches and a standard deviation of 2.65 inches. The heights of adult women in America are also normally distributed, but with a mean of 64.5 inches and a standard deviation of 2.51 inches.
a) If a man is 6 feet 3 inches tall, what is his z-score (to two decimal places)?
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b) What percentage of men are SHORTER than 6 feet 3 inches? Round to nearest tenth of a percent.
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c) If a woman is 5 feet 11 inches tall, what is her z-score (to two decimal places)?
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d) What percentage of women are TALLER than 5 feet 11 inches? Round to nearest tenth of a percent.
e) Who is relatively taller: a 6'3" American man or a 5'11" American woman? Defend your choice in a meaningful sentence.

Suppose that about 84% of graduating students attend their graduation. A group of 35 students is randomly chosen, and let X be the number of students who attended their graduation.

Please show the following answers to 4 decimal places.

1. What is the distribution of X? X ~ ? B U N  (,)
2. What is the probability that exactly 25 number of students who attended their graduation in this study?
3. What is the probability that less than 25 number of students who attended their graduation in this study?
4. What is the probability that at least 25 number of students who attended their graduation in this study?
5. What is the probability that between 22 and 26 (including 22 and 26) number of students who attended their graduation in this study?
6. 3/According to the American Red Cross, 11% of all Connecticut residents have Type B blood. A random sample of 20 Connecticut residents is taken.

   X=X=the number of CT residents that have Type B blood, of the 20 sampled.
   What is the expected value of the random variable XX?
   2.28 2.26 2.04 2.2 1.9 2.08

7. 4/The owner of a small deli is trying to decide whether to discontinue selling magazines. He suspects that only 10.7% of his customers buy a magazine and he thinks that he might be able to use the display space to sell something more profitable. Before making a final decision, he decides that for one day he will keep track of the number of customers that buy a magazine. Assuming his suspicion that 10.7% of his customers buy a magazine is correct, what is the probability that exactly 6 out of the first 12 customers buy a magazine?

1. What is the dominant product technology used in the industry in which Bank of America is based?
2. Are technical standards important in Bank of America industry? If so, what are they?
3. What are the attributes of the majority of customers purchasing the product of Bank of America (e.g., early adopters, early majority, late majority)? What does this tell you about the strategic issues that Bank of America is likely to face in the future?
4. Did the dominant technology in Bank of America diffuse rapidly or slowly? What drove the speed of diffusion?

Discuss the settlement of Carolina . . . South Carolina, in particular. Who settled it...and when...and why? What made South Carolina unique among the thirteen colonies of British North America?

Case 3 – Corporate Risk Management

1. A manufacturing company of consumer products that is based in Japan is considering entering new market in a Latin American country by exporting its products for sale there. Explain various risks it faces from expanding its market! Provide an example of each risk explained (10%)
2. Hellenistic Cruise is purchasing three new cruise ships to build sequentially. The first ship will commence construction today and take one year to build. The second will then be started. Hellenistic Cruise can cancel order for a given cruise ship at any time before construction begins for a small fee. Explain the real options should be considered in this situation! (10%)
3. Explain how a company manage its risk to face a global pandemic, such as Covid19, currently! (15%)update

compare and contrast the overall geography of North and South (Latin) America?

For example the company has 10 edge sites (two in each continent). The edge sites are europe-east, europe-west, asia-east, asia-west, africa-north, africa-south, americas-north, americas-south, australia-east and australia-west. Each edge site has 10 servers serving web content. The servers are named server1 - server10. Every hour on the hour, you want to bring HTTP web access logs files in to centralized Hadoop Distributed File System located in Chicago data center. How would you organize the directory structure in HDFS under /data/web/access-logs. Please illustrate your directory design and why you to organize it your way.

Which of the following is true, select the most appropriate answer below.

Often, cruise ships conduct all on-board transactions, with the exception of gambling, on cashless basis. At the end of the cruise, guests pay one bill that covers all onboard transactions. Suppose that 60 single travelers and 65 couples were surveyed as to their on-board bills for a seven-day cruise from Los Angeles to the Mexican Riviera. Following is a summary of the bills for each group.

a.    Fill in the relative frequency for each group.

b.    Construct a histogram for the singles group. Scale the x-axis by $50 widths. Use relative frequency on the y-axis.

c.    Construct a histogram for the couples group. Scale the x-axis by $50 widths. Use relative frequency on the y-axis.