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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?
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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?
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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.)
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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
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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).
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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.
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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.qnt561geniu
s.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
Problem   FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.qnt561genius.
com   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.
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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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  1.      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 lunch.
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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.
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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   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
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  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.
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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?
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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.co
m   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.
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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.
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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?
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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 
the survey. In a paper in the APA format
describe the followingDetermine the sample
process including sample contact, survey
distribution, and survey collection.Organize, pr
epare, and describe 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
(2 Sets)   FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.qnt561genius
.com   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.
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