A manager is considering placing an ad campaign on an emerging social media platform (e.g., Snap). To understand the demographics of usage for this platform, the manager takes a random sample of potential users and asks them if they participate in this social media platform. The results are shown below: Part of Social Media Not part of social media Platform platform Age < 30 75 33 Age >= 30 28 28 What is the "pooled" p-bar? (Hint: Please read the column headers carefully before launching into your test). O 0.55 0.445 0.628 0.737

In a survey that asked individuals about their favorite styles of music, 37 replied rock, 27 said they preferred pop music, 14 stated they like classical music the most, and 3 individuals stated they preferred opera. Based on this data, what would be the mode? Why couldn’t the mean or median be used to describe this set of values?

Cris Turlock owns and manages a small business in San Francisco, California. The business provides breakfast and brunch food, via carts parked along sidewalks, to people in the business district of the city. Being an experienced businessperson, Cris provides incentives for the four salespeople operating the food carts. This year, she plans to offer monetary bonuses to her salespeople based on their individual mean daily sales. Below is a chart giving a summary of the information that Cris has to work with. (A "sample" is a collection of daily sales figures, in dollars, from this past year for a particular salesperson.)   Groups Sample size Sample mean Sample variance Salesperson 1 143 204.8 2382.8 Salesperson 2 97 209.9 2501.3 Salesperson 3 53 218.3 2461.6 Salesperson 4 95 205.8 2373.9

A Deloitte employment survey asked a sample of human resource executives how their company planned to change its workforce over the next 12 months. A categorical response variable showed three options: the company plans to hire and add to the number of employees, the company plans no change in the number of employees, or the company plans to lay off and reduce the number of employees. Another categorical variable indicated if the company was private or public. Sample data for 180 companies are summarized as follows. Employment Plan Company Private Public Add Employees 37 32 No Change 19 34 Lay Off Employees 16 42 1) Conduct a test of independence to determine if the employment plan for the next 12 months is independent of the type of company. State the null and alternative hypotheses. A) H0: Employment plan is not mutually exclusive from the type of company. Ha: Employment plan is mutually exclusive from the type of company.   B) H0: Employment plan is not independent of…

The Institute of Education Sciences measures the high school dropout rate as the percentage of 16- through 24-year-olds who are not enrolled in school and have not earned a high school credential. In 2009, the high school dropout rate was 8.1%. A polling company recently took a survey of 1000 people between the ages of 16 and 24 and found 6.5% of them are high school dropouts. The polling company would like to determine whether the dropout rate has decreased at a 5% significance level. reject HO we can conclude that the high school dropout rate has decreased reject HO we cannot conclude that the high school dropout rate has decreased do not reject HỒ we cannot conclude that the high school dropout rate has decreased do not reject HỒ we can conclude that the high school dropout rate has decreased

A study was conducted to determine how people get jobs. The table list date from 400 randomly selected subjects. The data are bases on results from the National centter for Career Strategies.  Job source of survey respondent FREQUENCIES HELP-WANTED ads 56 EXECUTIVE SEARCH FIRMS 44 NETWORKING 280 MASS MAILING 20 TOTAL    1. What percentage of the respondents got job by either help-wanted ads or mass mailing? 2. What percentage of the respondent got jobs from networking?