Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)

13th Edition

ISBN: 9780134506593

Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 6.2, Problem 6.12ACB

Corporate sustainability of CPA firms. Corporate sustainability refers to business practices designed around social and environmental considerations. Refer to the Business and Society (March 2011) study on the sustainability behaviors of CPA corporations, Exercise 2.23 (p. 59). Recall that the level of support for corporate sustainability (measured on a quantitative scale ranging from o to 160 points) was obtained for each in a sample of 992 senior managers at CPA firms. Higher point values indicate a higher level of support for sustainability. The accompanying Minitab printout gives a 90% confidence interval for the mean level of support for all senior managers at CPA firms.

Chapter 6.2, Problem 6.12ACB, Corporate sustainability of CPA firms. Corporate sustainability refers to business practices

a. Locate the 90% confidence interval on the printout.
b. Use the sample mean and standard deviation on the printout to calculate the 90% confidence interval. Does your result agree with the interval shown on the printout?
c. Give a practical interpretation of the 90% confidence interval.
d. Suppose the CEO of a CPA firm claims that the true mean level of support for sustainability is 75 points. Do you believe this claim? Explain.

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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