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The number of people that report to an individual manager is known as the span of control.

Regarding departmentalization, the five most common ways of grouping employees are by function, product, geography, process, and customer.

The nursing assistant is changing the bed linen of a patient on bed rest. When the nursing assistant is ready to make the other side of the bed, what will the nursing assistant do before having the patient turn onto the side that has already been made?

Before transferring a person from the bed to a wheelchair, which step should you take?

Consult the tentative schedule included in the syllabus. When is HW #4 due? 

Label the indicated structures on the brain. 

Label the indicated structures on the brain. 

A health supplement company has retail and online stores.  The table below shows how many purchases made by customers last month came from retail vs online as well as from new vs returning customers.  Use the table to answer the questions.  For proportions, online below give the proportions rounded to the nearest hundredth….so if you get 0.7518 for a proportion type it as 0.752.  On your scrap sheet please also give the fraction form of the proportion (and number this problem 6 on your sheet). retail online new customer 145 178 returning customer 97 230 1) (for blank 1) Give the total number of purchases overall. 2) (for blank 2) What proportion of the purchases were made online? 3) (for blank 3) What proportion of the purchases from new customers were made online? 4) (for blank 4) Of the retail purchases, what proportion were made by new customers?

Short answers/fill in the blanks: Question/Blank 1) In a study on employed adults, an association was found between the job satisfaction someone had, and the number of vacations they took.  People who took more vacations reported being more satisfied with their job.  Identify the primary confounding variable in this situation. Confounding variable is ______. Blank 2)  On your work sheet, sketch a boxplot or histogram that is is approximately symmetric. No scale is needed.  In the blank here, just type in what you would expect to be true about the mean and median. Question/Blank 3) Suppose you collected a sample of 30 people who were between 30 and 39 years old.  If you measured the weight in pounds of everyone in the sample and also recorded the birthweights in pounds for everyone in the sample, which data set would have the largest standard deviation  – the weights of the people in pounds now (as adults) or the weights of the people in pounds as newborns?

A new dice game was created and to get a sense of the distribution of scores you can earn playing the game, the game was played a few hundred times and the scores were recorded.   The five-number summary was 12, 36, 48, 88, 180 The 4 lowest scores were 12, 14, 16, 16 The 4 highest scores were 155, 159, 172, 180 Using our method from class, show the work (on your clearly labeled scrap sheet to submit the work after the test) to check for outliers. Be sure to number this one as problem 3 on your scrap sheet.  Clearly answer here, online, whether or not there are any outliers and if there are outliers, which values are outliers.  Your work submission will be important in awarding points here!