Eynesbury: Quantitative Methods for Business 2011(3) Assignment 2: Due Monday 16th January 2012 at 5:00pm The assignments are to be submitted via the submission link on the Portal. Any submission handed to your teacher in paper form will not be accepted without prior written approval. E-mail versions of the assignment will not be accepted. Assignments submitted late‚ without an extension being granted‚ will attract a penalty of 10% per each working day or part thereof beyond the due
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1. Assume the room rate for a 3-star hotel in Paris follows a normal distribution with a mean of 175€ and a standard deviation of 16€. What is the probability that a randomly selected 3-star hotel has a room rate of Z(X) = (x-μ)/σ σ=16 μ=175 a) Less than 195 Euros? Z (195) = (195-175)/16 = 1‚ 25 so 89‚ 4% b) More than 180 Euros? Z (180) = (180-175)/16 = 0‚ 31 so 62‚ 2% c) Exactly 170 Euros? Z (170) = (170-175)/16 = - 0‚ 31 so 37‚ 8% d) Between 150 and 182 Euros?
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Homeland Security: Response and Recovery By: Brian Borenstein Introduction of the study Terrorism refers to an organized and systematic use of terror aiming to produce coercion or terror that is influenced by organized groups against civilians‚ and institutions. In connection with the background statements of this paper‚ the study shows that terrorism is an extreme undesirable event for the reason that the main objective of the activity will be to produce injury and damage
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organisation uses market research to contribute to its development plans. My selected organisation is McDonalds; I am going to talk about the organisation uses types of market research they do to contribute to its development plans. * Primary research * Secondary * Qualitative research * Quantitative research The reasons that the organisation needs to do market research because Primary Research What is Primary Research? Primary Research is first hand information
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MSc Honours Programme in Business Research ABRI Amsterdam Business Research Institute VU University Amsterdam Are you talented‚ motivated and want to get most from your MSc study? Do you want to cross disciplines to learn more about business? Do you want to be part of a select group of students who have also obtained above average grades and have shown high motivation? Do you want your thesis to become the highlight of your MSc degree and to receive close guidance from top researchers
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of the most profitable divisions to the least profitable divisions Interval – ranking scale of profitability among various divisions Ratio – ratio of profitability each year 2. Ch. 12 - 2 -- Assume you are Menu Foods and you planned a major research study just prior to the largest pet food recall in our history. You plan to proceed with the study and feel you must add one or more questions to measure the consumer’s confidence that your firm will be able to recover. Draft a scale for each of
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Fashion stores continue to discriminate against plus size women shopping in there stores. My objective is to develop a research and marketing plan to incorporate this particular target market into today’s biased society because plus size women want to look and feel phenomenal too. As a way to end size discrimination we want to create an environment that accepts those that are different in terms of size and let people know that “fat” is in‚ but not in this context; (PHAT) is back
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The problem statement is one of the most important aspects of the dissertation. The problem statement illustrates the paradigm and the methods. This paper will disclose one qualitative problem statement and one quantitative problem statement as they relate to two problems in the field of dentistry. Qualitative Problem Statement The importance of teaching the business of dentistry to dentists in dental school. The results show that student opinion coincided with faculty belief on only one question
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Business Research Methods Chandra Beasley Liberty University BUSI 600 7.6 NCR Corporation‚ known as a world leader in ATMs‚ point-of-sale (POS) retail checkout scanners‚ and check- in kiosks at airports‚ announced in June 2009 that it would move its world headquarters from Dayton (OH) to Duluth (GA)‚ a suburb of Atlanta‚ after more than 125 years. An employer of 1‚200 mostly high-salaried‚ profes- sional workers in Dayton‚ NCR was enticed to move by Georgia’s offer of more than $56.9
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good fortune; however‚ while the future is predetermined‚ God has vested in me power of free will. Thus‚ I remain the master of my own fate. I intend to make the most of the possibilities offered me as a US citizen‚ DBA candidate‚ and future small business owner. My worldview‚ like any other‚ includes presuppositions‚ convictions and values from which I use to make sense out of events in my life. In this sense‚ my view is much like that described in MacArthur’s 2006 article. Life is a conceptual scheme
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