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QNT 275 Slingshot Academy / qnt275study.com
  • QNT 275 Entire Course
  • QNT 275 Final Exam Guide
  • QNT 275 Week 1 Individual Assignment Statistics
    in Business
  • QNT 275 Week 1 DQ 1
  • QNT 275 Week 1 DQ 2
  • QNT 275 Week 1 DQ 3
  • QNT 275 Week 2 Activity Data Set
  • QNT 275 Week 2 Individual Assignment Business
    Decision Making Project, Part 1
  • QNT 275 Week 2 DQ 1
  • QNT 275 Final Exam Guide
  • 1. The salaries of teachers in a particular
    school district are normally distributed with a
    mean of 50,000 and a standard deviation of
    2,500. Due to budget limitations, it has been
    decided that the teachers who are in the top 2.5
    of the salaries would not get a raise. What is
    the salary level that divides the teachers into
    one group that gets a raise and one that doesnt?

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  • QNT 275 Week 1 DQ 1
  • QNT 275 Week 1 DQ 2
  • What is the importance of statistics in business
    decision making? Describe a business situation
    where statistics was used in making a decision.
  • Select four variables, other than what your
    fellow students have already selected, that could
    be measured by nominal, ordinal, interval, and
    ratio scale. Classify them by measurement scale
    and select descriptive statistics that can be
    used to summarize data. Use the following table
    when posting your response
  • Variable
  • Level of Measurement

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  • QNT 275 Week 1 DQ 3
  • QNT 275 Week 1 Individual Assignment Statistics
    in Business (2 Papers)
  • How do we define measurement? What are various
    levels of measurement? How do you select
    measurement levels when developing a survey or
    data collection tool? Explain with examples.
  • This Tutorial contains 2 Papers
  • Develop a 875-word response that addresses each
    of the following prompts
  • Define statistics with citation and reference.
  • Contrast quantitative data and qualitative
    data. Use two Peer Reviewed references.
  • Evaluate tables and charts used to represent
    quantitative and qualitative data.

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  • QNT 275 Week 2 Assignment Mini-Project 3-2
  • QNT 275 Week 2 DQ 1
  • You are employed as a statistician for a company
    that makes household products, which are sold by
    part-time salespersons who work during their
    spare time. The company has four salespersons
    employed in a small town. Let us denote these
    salespersons by A, B, C, and D.
  • Describe a business situation, other than what
    has already been selected by fellow students or
    selected from the team assignment, where mean and
    standard deviation can be used in decision
    making. Describe how calculation of mean and
    standard deviation can help in making a decision.

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  • QNT 275 Week 2 DQ 2
  • QNT 275 Week 2 DQ 3
  • What are the various methods one can use to
    identify the shape of data distribution collected
    for research study? Why it is important to know
    the shape of distribution? How it can be used in
    decision making? Provide examples other than
    those already posted in class.
  • Select an article from a news magazine or
    research journal where data is displayed in a pie
    or bar chart. Describe the data displayed in the
    chart and what conclusion you could draw.

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  • QNT 275 Week 2 Individual Assignment Activity
    Data Set (Little Town Cafe)
  • QNT 275 Week 2 Quiz
  • Review the following business scenario
  • You are the manager in a small town in the lake
    district of a Midwestern state enjoys a robust
    tourist season during the summer months, but has
    only a small population of residents during the
    off season. The Littletown Café adjusts the
    levels of staff according to the time of year, to
    coincide with the number of guests
  • QNT 275 Week 2 Quiz
  • 1. In order to summarize qualitative
    data, a useful tool is a __________.
  • 2. A stem-and-leaf diagram is constructed
    by separating each value of a data set into two
    parts. What are these parts?

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  • QNT 275 Week 3 CLO Business Decision Making
    Project Part 1
  • QNT 275 Week 3 DQ 1
  • CLO Business Decision-Making Project Part 1
  • Identify a business problem or opportunity at a
    company where you work or with which you're
    familiar. This will be a business problem that
    you use for the individual assignments in Weeks
    3-5. It should be a problem/opportunity for which
    gathering and analyzing some type of data would
    help you understand the problem/opportunity
    better.
  • An oil change shop advertised to change oil
    within 15 minutes. Based on the data collected on
    a typical day, what is the probability that oil
    change will take 15 minutes or less time? Based
    on the data, do you think the business claim is
    valid? Explain why or why not.

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  • QNT 275 Week 3 DQ 2
  • QNT 275 Week 3 DQ 3
  • What are some conditions under which business
    decisions are made using subjective probability
    concepts? Provide at least two examples of
    subjective probability.
  • What are the characteristics of standard normal
    distribution? The HR department of an
    organization collects data on employees' age,
    salary, level of education, gender, and
    ethnicity. Which data do you think is more likely
    to follow normal distribution? Explain why.

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  • QNT 275 Week 3 Probability Case Study 5.2
  • QNT 275 Week 3 Quiz
  • Week 3 Learning Team Collaboration Discussion
    Probability
  • Resource Case Study 5.2 in Chapter 5 of
    Essentials of Business Statistics
  • Calculate the requested probabilities for items
    1-3.
  • Discuss your findings for the probabilities.
  • QNT 275 Week 3 Quiz
  • Question 1 You work in
    marketing for a company that produces work boots.
    Quality control has sent you a memo detailing the
    length of time before the boots wear out under
    heavy use. They find that the boots wear out in
    an average of 208 days, but the exact amount of
    time varies, following a normal distribution with
    a standard deviation of 14 days.

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  • QNT 275 Week 4 CLO Business Decision Making
    Project Part 2
  • QNT 275 Week 4 DQ 1
  • CLO Business Decision Making Project, Part 2
  • Use the same business problem/opportunity and
    research variable you wrote about in Week 3.
  • Remember do not actually collect any data think
    hypothetically.
  • Develop a 1,050-word report in which you
  • Identify the types of descriptive
    statistics that might be best for summarizing the
    data, if you were to collect a sample.
  • What is the difference between an independent and
    a dependent variable? Does a regression model
    imply causation? Explain why or why not

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  • QNT 275 Week 4 DQ 2
  • QNT 275 Week 4 DQ 3
  • Does correlation equal causation? Does the
    strength of correlation depend on the direction?
    What is the meaning of a zero correlation?
    Explain your answers.
  • What are the requirements that must be met for a
    regression analysis? What happens if these
    requirements are violated? Why is analysis of
    residuals important?

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  • QNT 275 Week 4 Linear Regression Case 12.1
  • QNT 275 Week 4 Quiz
  • Resource Case Study 12.1 in Chapter 12 of
    Essentials of Business Statistics.
  • Click the Sushi Restaurant Data Set link.
  • Calculate the linear regression in item 1 of the
    case study.
  • Discuss the following with your team
  • Explain if simple regression or
    multiple regression is more appropriate for
    making predictions in this case.
  • QNT 275 Week 4 Quiz
  • Question 1 Serial correlation
    is typically observed in
  • Question 2 Another name for an
    explanatory variable is the ___.
  • Question 3 Which of the
    following variables is not qualitative?

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  • QNT 275 Week 5 CLO Business Decision Making
    Project Part 3
  • QNT 275 Week 5 DQ 1
  • CLO Business Decision Making Project, Part 3
  • Prepare an 11- to 15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint 
    presentation for the senior management team based
    on the business problem or opportunity you
    described in Weeks 3-4.
  • How would you select appropriate statistical tests
     for analysis research data? What aspects of resea
    rch questions or data type

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  • QNT 275 Week 5 DQ 2
  • QNT 275 Week 5 DQ 3
  • How do you know you have validated a research stud
    y based on data gathered from primary or secondary
     sources? Have you been involved with any product 
    test-marketing project? Explain. How did the resul
    ting statistics affect the product's marketing str
    ategy? How can organizations skew the statistical 
    outcomes of their business research?
  • In what way has the learning from this course help
    ed you to effectively test hypotheses, draw conclu
    sions, and provide recommendations to management? 
    Consider what you have achieved in your research s
    tudy conducted for this course.

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