number of hours spent on school work each week? Be sure to include the computations or StatCrunch output to support your answer. The answer is R= 0.30790085. StatCrunch output: Correlation between “Q10 What is your cumulative Grade Point Average at Kaplan University?” and “Q11 How many hours do you spend on school work each week?” is: 0.30790085 b) Is the correlation what you expected? No‚ I expected the correlation to be higher than what was computed. c) Does the number of hours spent on school
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Testing a Claim It is possible to test a claim using a confidence interval. The logic is very simple and straightforward. Assume we use StatCrunch to create a 95% confidence interval for the number of Facebook friends for Kaplan University MM207 students and find that the interval is between 75 friends and to 125 friends. Now‚ one of your classmates claims that the average number of Facebook friends is 150. Does this claim make sense in light of your confidence interval? No it does not. If a claim
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need to help the youths. There have been multiple occasions in which the United States has crossed paths with child soldiers. For instance “the first U.S. soldier killed in the war on terrorism was shot by a fourteen-year-old sniper in Afghanistan” (Kaplan). It is essential to make a good judgement call in these types of situations because lives and guilt are riding on the
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understanding culture heritage and shared humanity make a difference in professional success and failure meeting organizational goal (Kaplan‚ 2010). People work in all types of different cultural background. If you communicate successfully‚ with the multicultural colleagues‚ clients and customers will help your business performance‚ competitive advantage and talent retention (Kaplan‚ 2010). To have an effective communication skill‚ there is a need for
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(MBE) mission? Gentry Lee should recommend the launch for the MBE mission. As stated in the case study‚ Gentry Lee is introduced to the project with a significant amount of experience working with NASA and interplanetary exploration missions (Kaplan and Mikes‚ 2010). Multiple review boards took place to discuss in detail the consequences and likelihood of risks occurring. Tiger teams were established to find resolutions to existing problems weeks before the launch date. The case study eludes
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(BGT) Principles of Budgeting Drafting Budgets TUTOR NOTES © Kaplan Financial Limited‚ 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted‚ in any firm or by any means‚ electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise‚ without the prior written permission of Kaplan Publishing. The text in this material and any others made available by any Kaplan Group company does not amount to advice on a particular matter and
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The discussion between imaginative details versus the concrete reality is argued between Kaplan and Chen’s criticisms. Within Kaplan’s criticism‚ he states that
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Americans from higher paying positions was valid (Kaplan & Saccuzzo‚ 2009). The same test however‚ when given to the Caucasian employees‚ did not provide fruitful results as they too failed the test. Standards require that businesses must demonstrate that such tests are "reasonably related" to the job for which the test is required. Rulings of this case set the pace for civil rights actions in this regard for nearly twenty years to follow (Kaplan & Saccuzzo‚ 2009). Griggs v. Duke Power Co
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Balanced Scorecard is a strategic management tool that combines four performance perspectives‚ acquiring a broad based picture of performance (Kaplan/Norton‚ 1992). traditional financial metrics (return on investment) customer-based metrics internal-operations metrics growth and learning metrics The concept of Strategy Maps emerged to supplement the BSC (Kaplan/Norton‚ 2004)‚ establishing strategies that are translated into quantifiable metrics in the BSC. THE CAUSE AND EFFECT RELATIONSHIP The BSC
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The idea of the American dream—that this country is the land of opportunity and that anyone can achieve success through hard work—has given hope to people born without hope. This is one of the main reasons people come to the United States from other countries‚ but now the American dream is being questioned‚ does it still exist. The collection of stories‚ “Living it” and “From Ragged Dick”‚ are two examples of how the American dream does not exist in our generation. It is also shared in the articles
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