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QNT 561 Final Exam Guide (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com     1.      The mean
gas mileage for a hybrid car is 56 miles per
gallon. Suppose that the gasoline mileage is
approximately normally distributed with a
standard deviation of 3.2 miles per
gallon. 2.      What conditions must n satisfy to
make the x2 test valid? 3.      To use the
t-statistic to test for a difference between the
means of two populations, what assumptions must
be made about the two populations? About the two
samples? 4.      Studies of managers from two
countries in the 1970s found sharp differences of
opinion toward quality management. To find out if
these differences continue to exist, researchers
surveyed 100 managers in
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QNT 561 Final Guide (Latest) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com   1. A random sample
of size 15 is selected from a normal population.
The population standard deviation is unknown.
Assume the null hypothesis indicates a two-tailed
test and the researcher decided to use the 0.10
significance level. For what values of t will the
null hypothesis not be rejected?   2. Which of
the following is a characteristic of the F
distribution?   3. For a chi-square test
involving a contingency table, suppose the null
hypothesis is rejected. We conclude that the two
variables are __________
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QNT 561 Week 1 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com How may variance and
standard deviation be applied to a real-world
business-related problem? Provide a specific
application in which these measures are useful. 
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QNT 561 Week 1 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com When would you use
Chebyshevs theorem and the empirical rule in
business? How are they calculated? Provide one
real-life example that requires Chebyshevs
theorem and one that requires the empirical rule.
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QNT 561 Week 1 Individual My Statslab Problem
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1.      What is statistics? 2.      Explain the
difference between descriptive and inferential
statistics. 3.      Explain the difference
between qualitative and quantitative
data. 4.      Explain how populations and
variables differ. 5.      Explain how populations
and samples differ. 6.      What is a
representative sample? 7.      Explain the
difference between a population and a process.
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QNT 561 Week 1 Lab Work (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com Ex 4) Two Thousand
three hundred frequent business travelers are
asked which Midwestern city they prefer
Indianapolis, Saint Louis, Chicago or Milwaukee.
388 liked Indianapolis best, 450 liked Saint
Louis, 1212 liked Chicago and the remainder
prefers Milwaukee. Develop a frequency table and
a relative frequency table to summarize this
information (Round relative frequency to 3
decimal places.)   Ex 6) A small business
consultant is investigating the performance of
several companies. The fourth-quarter sales for
last year (in thousands of dollars) for the
selected companies were The consultant wants to
include a chart in his report comparing the sales
of six companies. Identify a bar chart that
compares the fourth-quarter sales of these
corporations.
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QNT 561 Week 2 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com What are some
examples of operational definitions in research
design within your profession? For example, in
the education field, graduation rate and
retention rate are important operational
definitions to measure progress of students.
Likewise other professions have common metrics
and definitions. Identify some metrics and
operational definitions from your own career or a
profession that you know well. Tell us why you
think it is important!
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QNT 561 Week 2 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com     What is the
purpose of sampling? What are some concerns and
dangers of sampling? How important is the sample
design to data validity? Explain. Provide an
example where a sample might misrepresent data
validity. For example, reflect on the current
political campaign and the pollsters!
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QNT 561 Week 2 Individual My Statslab Problem
Set FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.qnt561genius.com 1.
      A random sample of 87 observations produced
a mean    25.7 and a standard deviation s
2.6. 2.      Health care workers who use latex
gloves with glove powder on a daily basis are
particularly susceptible to developing a latex
allergy. Each in a sample of 50 hospital
employees who were diagnosed with a latex allergy
based on a skin-prick test reported on their
exposure to latex gloves. Summary statistics for
thr number of latex gloves used per week are  
19.4 and s 11.6. Complete parts (a)
(d). 3.      Each child in a sample of 62
low-income children was administered a language
and communication exam. The sentence complexity
scores had a mean of 7.63 and a standard
deviation of 8.92. Complete parts a through d.
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QNT 561 Week 2 Lab Work (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com Chapter 5 Ex 4) A
large company must hire a new president. The
Board of Directors prepares a list of five
candidates, all of whom are equally qualified.
Two of these candidates are members of a minority
group. To avoid bias in the selection of the
candidate, the company decides to select the
president by lottery. a. What is the probability
one of the minority candidate is hired? b. Which
concept of probability did you use to make this
estimate? Ex 14) The chair of the board of
directors says, There is a 50 chance this
company will earn a profit, a 30 chance it will
break even, and a 20 chance it will lose money
next quarter a. Use an addition rule to find
the probability the company will not lose money
next quarter b. Use the complement rule to find
the probability it will not lose money next
quarter. EX 22 )
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QNT 561 Week 2 Team Assignment Business Research
Project Part 1 Business Problem and Research
Questions FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.qnt561genius.
com Identify an organization or business for
your Learning Team research project.  Describe the
products or services it provides.  Identify a
problem or dilemma faced by the organization that
could be addressed by research.  Discuss the
problem as a team.  Discuss your selected problem
or dilemma with your faculty member to ensure
that it is at an appropriate scope for the
course. 
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QNT 561 Week 2 Team Assignment Business Research
Project Part 1 Formulation of the Research
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m     Identify an organization from any member in
your Learning Team or an organization with which
your team is familiar.  If an actual company is
used, disguise its name with a pseudonym.  Identif
y one independent variable and one dependent
variable based on the business.  Operationalize
these variables if they are too abstract to
measure.Develop a real or realistic research
question for the company you chose and the two
variables. Include a background, a business
problem and the team's role of no more than 500
words.  Develop a research question from the two
variables. Keep you
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QNT 561 Week 3 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com In your
organizations management development program,
there was a heated discussion between people who
claimed that theory is impractical and not
effective, and others who claimed that effective
theory is the most practical approach to
problems. What position would you take and why? 
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QNT 561 Week 3 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com   You observe female
sales representatives having lower customer
defections than male sales representatives. What
concepts and constructs would you use to study
this phenomenon? How might the concepts or
constructs relate to explanatory hypotheses?
Explain. 
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QNT 561 Week 3 Individual Mystatslab Problem
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.      Which hypothesis, the null or the
alternative, is the status-quo hypothesis? 2.     
A university economist conducted a study of
elementary school lunch menus. During the
state-mandated testing period, school lunches
averaged 890 calories. The economist claimed that
after the testing period ended, the average
caloric content of the school lunches
increased/dropped significantly. Set up the null
and alternative hypothesis to test the
economists claim. 3.      Suppose the mean GPA
of all students graduating from a particular
university in 1975 was 2.40. The register plans
to look at records of graduating last year to see
if the mean GPA has decreased. Define notation
and state the null and alternative hypothesis for
this investigation.
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QNT 561 Week 3 Lab Work (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com   Chapter 8   Ex
2) The following is a list of 29 hospitals in the
Cincinnati (Ohio) and Northern Kentucky region.
The hospitals are identified by numbering them 00
through 28. Also included is whether the hospital
is a general medical/surgical hospital (M/S) or a
specialty hospital (S). we are interested in
estimating the average number of full- and
part-time nurses employed in the area
hospitals.   Ex 8) A population consists of the
following five values 1,1,6,7,9. a.       List
all samples of size 3, and compute the mean of
each sample
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QNT 561 Week 3 Team Assignment Business Research
Project Part 2 Research Plan (2 Papers) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.qnt561genius.com This
Tutorial contains 2 different Papers Develop a
plan for your Business Research Project in
approx. 800 words.   Revise the research
questions based on instructor feedback from the
previous week.  Identify population and samples
for your research.  Describe who will be chosen
and how they will be accessed.  Determine the
data collection process. 
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QNT 561 Week 4 Discussion Descriptive
Statistics   FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.qnt561geni
us.com Create?a?Microsoft??Excel??spreadsheet
with the two variables from a dataset for your
choosing. Analyze?the data with MegaStat?,
StatCrunch?, Microsoft??Excel?or other
statistical tool(s), including (a) Descriptive
stats for each numeric variable and (b) Histogram
for each numeric variable and either (c) or
(d) (c) Bar chart for each attribute (non
numeric) variable
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QNT 561 Week 4 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com does technological
advancement affect the ability to collect data?
Provide examples. Does this advancement increase
the chance for errors? Explain. 
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QNT 561 Week 4 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com What is the
importance of pretesting questions and
instruments? What are risks of not doing this?
Provide an example.
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QNT 561 Week 4 Individual Mystatslab Problem
Set FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.qnt561genius.com 1.
      Researchers conducted a survey of a
representative sample of over 1,000 drivers.
Based on how often each driver engaged in road
behaviour, a road rage score was given. The
drivers were also grouped by annual income. The
data were subjected to an analysis of variance,
with the results summarized in the table. 2.     
Researchers surveyed a random sample of 25
employees who were enrolled in a certain program
at one of three universities. These individuals
were divided into four distinct groups, 1, 2, 3,
and 4, depending on their job situation at a
previous or current firm. The sampled employees
completed a questionnaire on their ethical
perceptions of downsizing. One item asked
employees to respond to the statement, It is
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QNT 561 Week 4 Lab Work (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com Chapter 10 Ex 2) A
Sample of 36 observations is selected from a
normal population. The sample mean is 12, and the
population standard deviation is 3. Conduct the
following test of hypothesis using the 0.01
significance level. EX. 10) Given the following
hypotheses H0 µ 400 H1 µ ? 400 A random
sample of 12 observations is selected from a
normal population. The sample mean was 407 and
the sample S.D 6. Using the 0.1 significance
level a. State the decision rule. b. Compute the
value of the test statistic c. What is your
decision regarding the null hypothesis? EX 12)
The management of White Industries considering a
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QNT 561 Week 4 Team Assignment Business Research
Project Part 3 Survey and Data Collection Plan (2
Sets) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.qnt561genius.com
Create a draft of the survey.  Conduct a pilot
pretest having another Learning Team in the class
to provide feedback for your team. Chet will
create a message thread for each team to place
their survey in the Class Discussion
Tab.  Revise the survey based on the feedback
provided by your classmates.Describe in a
paragraph or two at the end of your survey what
feedback was provided by the other team and how
did that impact this final survey from you
initial draft.   Click the Assignment Files tab
to submit your final survey that you deploy.
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QNT 561 Week 5 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com What is the value of
performing hypotheses tests to solve problems
related to business and operations management?
Provide specific examples.
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QNT 561 Week 5 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com What are differences
between dependent and independent samples?
Provide examples. What are implications for
determining the tests used to analyze data? 
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QNT 561 Week 5 Individual Mystatslab Problem
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1.      Consider the pairs of measurements shown
to the right. 2.      Researchers investigated
the effect of tablet surface area to volume on
the rate at which a drug is released in a
controlled-release dosage. For six similarly
shaped tablets with different weights and
thicknesses, the diffusional drug release rate
(percentage of drug released divided by the
square root of time) was determined. The
experimental data are listed in the table.
Complete parts a through d. 3.      Many
entrepreneurs have donated money to various
causes. Data on the total amount pledged and
remaining net worth for the 10 top donors are
given in the table. Complete parts a through
d. 4.      Explain what each of the following
sample correlation coefficients tells you about
the relationship between the x and y values in
the sample.
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QNT 561 Week 5 Lab Work (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com Chapter 13 Ex 6)
The owner of Maumee Ford-Mercury-Volvo wants to
study the relationship between the age of a car
and its selling price. Listed below is a random
sample of 12 used cars sold at the dealership
during the last year. a. If we wants to estimate
selling price on the basis of the age of car,
which variable is thr dependent varialble and
which is the independent variable? b. 1.
Determine the correlation coefficient 2.
Determine the coefficient of determination. c.
Interpret the correlation coefficient. Does it
surprise you that the correlation coefficient is
negative? EX.12) The student Government
Association at Middle Carolina
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QNT 561 Week 5 Team Assignment Business Research
Project Part 4 Data Analysis (2 Sets) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.qnt561genius.com   Administer th
e survey. In a paper in the APA format describe
the followingDetermine the sample process
including sample contact, survey distribution,
and survey collection.Organize, prepare, and
describe the data. Include tables and figures as
necessary to visually present the data.
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QNT 561 Week 6 Lab Work (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.qnt561genius.com   Chapter 18 EX.2)
Listed Below is the number of movie tickets sold
at the Library Cinema-Complex, in thousands, for
the period from 2001 to 2013. Compute a five-year
weighted moving average using weights of 0.15,
0.15, 0.25, 0.16, and 0.29, respectively.
Describe the trend in yield. EX 10) Appliance
Center sells a variety of electronic equipment
and home appliance. For the last 4 years, 2010
through 2013, the following quarterly sales (in
millions) were reported. Determine the typical
seasonal index for each of four quarters.
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QNT 561 Week 6 Team Assignment Business Research
Project Part 5 Research Report and Presentation
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om   Complete?the cumulative Business Research
Report in approx. 1,500 words by collaborating
with your team to include the following Revised
tables or figures based on prior instructor
feedback The description or interpretation for
the tables or figures Summary of Learning Team
results Answers to the research
questions Research challenges
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