Scenario: In the early 1990s, Stella Liebeck, 79 ordered a cup of coffee at McDonald's. She accidentally spilled the coffee on her lap and suffered serious burns. She sued McDonald's for negligence, among other things.
Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, P.T.S., Inc., No. D-202 CV 93 02419, 1995 WL 360309 (Bernalillo County, N.M. Dist. Cut. August 18, 1994).
Support the plaintiff, Liebeck and highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the plaintiff to a basic negligence action only.

An educator wants to determine whether early exposure to school will affect IQ. He enlists the aid of the parents of 12 pairs of preschool-age identical twins who agree to let their twins participate in his experiment. One member of each twin pair is enrolled in preschool for 2 years, while the other member of each pair remains at home. At the end of the 2 years, the IQs of all the children are measured.  

1. Research Hypothesis:
2. Null Hypothesis:
3. Statistical test to use:
4. Degrees of freedom
5. Using α = .05 significance level.

6. Critical value = ________________ Test statistic = ________________

IQ

                                    Twins at                                  Twins at

Pair                             Preschool                                Home

   1                                   120                                         114

   2                                   121                                         118

   3                                   127                                         103

   4                                   117                                         112

   5                                   115                                         117

   6                                   120                                       106

   7                                   130                                         115

   8                                   119                                         113

   9                                   121                                         109

10                                  120                                         112

11                                  117                                         116

12                                  121                                         104

Please help. Show all steps with answers and formulas used.

Tom decides to get an early start on retirement saving and, beginning at age 22, he invests $4,000 per year in a Roth IRA for 10 years in a row. At that point, he stops contributing to the account but leaves the money invested until age 65 (a period of 33 years). Harry doesn’t start investing until he’s 32 but from then on invests $5,000 in a Roth IRA each year for 33 years until retirement at age 65. If both men earn 9.875 percent per year on their investments, compounded annually, what are their final account values? Who has accumulated more money? How much more?

A. Suppose we test the proportions of people who like having a cup of coffee early in the morning for two populations: H0 : p1= p2 vs Ha : p1< p2. The sample sizes for these two population are n1= n2=400 and the numbers of people who like coffee are x1 =160 and x2=200 respectively. What is the value of the test statistics?

a. -2.8571        b. -2.8427

c. -2.8866        d. -2.8284

B. Suppose we take Type I error level to be α = 0.01 in the above population proportion testing. What is your conclusion?

a. Reject H0.   b. Accept H0 c. Do not know.

From the time of early studies by Sir Francis Galton in the late nineteenth century linking it with mental ability, the cranial capacity of the human skull has played an important role in arguments about IQ, racial differences, and evolution, sometimes with serious consequences. (See, for example, S.J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man," .) Suppose that the mean cranial capacity measurement for modern, adult males is cc (cubic centimeters) and that the standard deviation is cc. Complete the following statements about the distribution of cranial capacity measurements for modern, adult males. (a) According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least ? of the measurements lie between 565 cc and 1481 cc. (b) According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least 36% of the measurements lie between and . (Round your answer to the nearest integer.) (c) Suppose that the distribution is bell-shaped. According to the empirical rule, approximately 99.7% of the measurements lie between and . (d) Suppose that the distribution is bell-shaped. According to the empirical rule, approximately ? of the measurements lie between 565 cc and 1481 cc.

A story spoiler gives away the ending early. Does having a story spoiled in this way diminish suspense and hurt enjoyment? A study¹ investigated this question. For twelve different short stories, the study’s authors created a second version in which a spoiler paragraph at the beginning discussed the story and revealed the outcome. Each version of the twelve stories was read by at least 30 people and rated on a 1 to 10 scale to create an overall rating for the story, with higher ratings indicating greater enjoyment of the story. The ratings are given in Table 1 and stored in StorySpoilers. Stories 1 to 4 were ironic twist stories, stories 5 to 8 were mysteries, and stories 9 to 12 were literary stories. Test to see if there is a difference in mean overall enjoyment rating based on whether or not there is a spoiler.

Table 1 Enjoyment ratings for stories with and without spoilers

Find a 95% confidence interval for the difference in mean enjoyment rating between stories with a spoiler and stories without.

Click here for the dataset associated with this question.

Round your answers to three decimal places.

The 95% confidence interval is.....??????????

Early on, you were asked to write an explanation as to why you believe developing critical thinking and logic skills is important. How would you say your critical thinking or logic skills have changed by the end of this course? What do you think was the most valuable lesson from this quarter? Why?

The difference between IFRS and GAAP are well documented and in the 2000's and early 2010's several convergence projects were undertakem by IASB and FASB in the effort to align the two. One of the projects relate to revenue recongnition and specifically that of construction contracts. You are to critically reflect on the cponvergence projects taking into account the following:

(a) the differences in revenue recognition (of construction contracts) between IFRS and GAAP?

(b) Why it is importatant to consider the differences in IFRS and GAAP in general?

(c) Potential for lobbying to take place in final outcome of convergence projects.

P0\/\/|\|3D. In the early 80s, hackers used to write in an obfuscated, but mostly readable way called “leet” – short for “elite”. In essence, it was a simple character replacement algorithm, where a single “regular” character was replaced by one or more “leet” characters; numbers remained the same. Here’s one of the most readable versions: a 4 g 9 m /\\/\\ s $ y ‘/ b B h |-| n |\\| t 7 z Z c ( i 1 o 0 u U d D j j p P v \\/ e 3 k |< q Q w \\/\\/ f Ph l L r R x >< Note! You will need to know how to 1) get the length of a string (the number of characters) and 2) access individual characters of the string. You must use at least one method in addition to main – preferably one that translates individual characters! Note #2: your first task should be to try to print out a single ‘\’ character…

In java Please

Early in 2012, Dobbs Corporation engaged Kiner, Inc. to design and construct a complete modernization of Dobbs's manufacturing facility. Construction was begun on June 1, 2012 and was completed on December 31, 2012. Dobbs made the following payments to Kiner, Inc. during 2012:

Date                                              Payment

June 1, 2012                                  $4,800,000

August 31, 2012                              7,200,000

December 31, 2012                         6,000,000

            In order to help finance the construction, Dobbs issued $4,000,000 of 10-year, 9% bonds payable, issued at par on May 31, 2012, with interest payable annually on May 31.

In addition to the 9% bonds payable, the only debt outstanding during 2012 was a $1,200,000, 12% note payable dated January 1, 2008 and due January 1, 2018, with interest payable annually on January 1.

Instructions

Compute the amounts of each of the following (show computations):

            1. Weighted-average accumulated expenditures qualifying for capitalization of Interest cost    _________________

            2. Avoidable interest incurred during 2012.   _______________

            3. Total amount of interest cost to be capitalized during 2012.   _______________