Aproperty and casualty insurance company (which provides fire coverage for dwellings) felt that the mean distance from a home to the nearest fire department in rural alabama was at least 10 miles. it set its fire insurance rates accordingly. members of the community set out to show that the mean distance was less than 10 miles due to the increased number of volunteer fire departments. this, they felt, would convince the insurance company to lower its rates. they randomly identify 64 homes and measure the distance to the nearest fire department for each. the resulting sample mean was 8.7 miles. if σ = 3.5 miles, does the sample show sufficient evidence to support the community's claim? use the four step process for hypothesis testing.

Spirula trading inc sublets a part of its offices building to jade inc. for a period of ten years . where will the company disclose this information?

Which job role belongs in the middle management level? a. president b. chief executive officer c. department manager d. chief operating officer e. vice president

Mr. smith recently faced a choice between being (a) an economics profes-sor, which pays $60,000/yr, or (b) a safari leader, which pays $50,000/yr. after careful deliberation, smith took the safari job, but it was a close call. "for a dollar more," he said, "i'd have gone the other way."now smith's brother-in-law approaches him with a business proposition. the terms are as follows: - smith must resign his safari job to work full-time in his brother-in-law's business.- smith must give his brother-in-law an interest-free loan of $100,000, which will be repaid in full if and when smith leaves the business. (smith currently has much more than $100,000 in the the business will pay smith a salary of $70,000/yr. he will receive no other payment from the business.the interest rate is 10 percent per year. apart from salary considerations, smith feels that working in the business would be just as enjoyable as being an economics professor. for simplicity, assume there is no uncertainty regarding either smith's salary in the proposed business or the security of his monetary investment in it. should smith join his brother-in-law and, if so, how small would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it not worthwhile for him to join? if not, how large would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it worthwhile for him to join?