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What is the purpose of a nutgraph/nutgraf in a news story?                        

It is okay to show your story to a source before it publishes if they ask to see it.

It is OK to take out words/phrases like “uhhh,” “umm,” “you know,” and “like” in a direct quote. 

In a City Council- Manager system, the City Manager controls the administrative apparatus of the city and can hire/fire city council members.                                                                                       

Write two sentences using adjetivos descriptivos to describe your ideal roommate.  á / é / í / ó / ú / ñ

You have a sample of size n = 11. You find that = 35, and 490. Give the sample variance.  

In a binomial distribution with p = .79 and n = 10, what is the mean (μ)?    

Before deciding whether or not to approve a merger among rivals in an industry, the Federal Trade Commission calculates a measure of industry concentration using the market shares of all competitors.  It is called the

You digress from your career in medicine and become interested in venomous snakes. You want to determine if the LD50 for the Black Mamba, Dendroaspis polylepis, (a very dangerous venomous snake from Africa) is different depending on which fang (right or left) delivers the venom. You carefully(!) take 8 snakes and measure the LD50 from the right and left fangs. You get the following results (in mg/kg):   (Biology comment (not useful for answering the question!): LD50 is the dosage at which the venom kills 50% of the mice it’s tested on (a bit gross, I admit))   Snake # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 s right fang 0.973 1.070 0.719 1.289 0.642 0.889 1.039 0.944 0.946 0.203 left fang 0.235 1.286 1.714 0.054 1.299 0.478 0.920 0.157 0.768 0.623 difference 0.738 -0.216 -0.995 1.235 -0.657 0.411 0.119 0.787 0.178 0.764   You may assume that everything is normally distributed.   What test do you decide to use?    

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