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QUESTION 4: MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS 4.1 Explаin the steps а business shоuld fоllоw when evаluating a strategy. (6) 4.2  Read the following case study carefully and answer the questions that follow:     Themba is the owner of a small business in a rural area but firmly believes that once his products have successfully entered the market through increased advertising, it will be able to sustain both his children and their children. He believes that he doesn’t have to change his products, nor does he believe that he has to change his market. As a result of his ambition, he decided to buy Reindi’s Spaza, the distributor of his products.   4.2.1 Elaborate on how Themba can apply vertical integration. Using the case study above, which type of vertical integration can Themba apply? (4) 4.2.2 Discuss how Reindi’s Spaza can apply vertical integration. Using the case study above, which type of vertical integration can Reindi’s Spaza apply?            (4) 4.2.3 Distinguish between horizontal diversification and horizontal integration. (8) BUSINESS OPERATIONS   4.3 Explain the impact of fringe benefits for a business (8) 4.4 The appointment of an employee is an example of a human resource activity. Explain the following   4.4.1 The purpose of an interview (4) 4.4.2 The role of the interviewee (6)     [40]   TOTAL SECTION B: [80]

QUESTION 4: MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS 4.1 Explаin the steps а business shоuld fоllоw when evаluating a strategy. (6) 4.2  Read the following case study carefully and answer the questions that follow:     Themba is the owner of a small business in a rural area but firmly believes that once his products have successfully entered the market through increased advertising, it will be able to sustain both his children and their children. He believes that he doesn’t have to change his products, nor does he believe that he has to change his market. As a result of his ambition, he decided to buy Reindi’s Spaza, the distributor of his products.   4.2.1 Elaborate on how Themba can apply vertical integration. Using the case study above, which type of vertical integration can Themba apply? (4) 4.2.2 Discuss how Reindi’s Spaza can apply vertical integration. Using the case study above, which type of vertical integration can Reindi’s Spaza apply?            (4) 4.2.3 Distinguish between horizontal diversification and horizontal integration. (8) BUSINESS OPERATIONS   4.3 Explain the impact of fringe benefits for a business (8) 4.4 The appointment of an employee is an example of a human resource activity. Explain the following   4.4.1 The purpose of an interview (4) 4.4.2 The role of the interviewee (6)     [40]   TOTAL SECTION B: [80]

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We meаsure the viscоsity оf а pаrticular fluid by putting the fluid in a calibrated tube, and then drоpping a small ball into the tube.  X is the random variable which denotes how many seconds it takes for the ball to drop to the bottom of the tube.  The longer the drop, the more viscous the fluid.   Below is a histogram of your latest 15 trials. MidTerm_QuestionL_Chart_A.png Your team wants to consider those 15 trials to be one batch, and notes that the average dropping time is 1.38 seconds for the batch shown.  It also assumes the standard deviation for the population of all dropped balls through this tube with this fluid is assumed to be 1.25 seconds.   Your company is advertising the average dropping time as 2 seconds, and this is assumed to be the population average.  For this product, more viscous (longer dropping times) is better. Your team member says, “Hey, I think we can use the Central Limit Theorem here even though this histogram doesn’t even look remotely normally distributed.  Let’s take 3 more batches, so we will have a total of 4 batches of 15 ball drops.  That’s 60 balls total.  Then the distribution of the sample means for batch 1, batch 2, batch 3, and batch 4 will be normally distributed, with a mean and standard deviation we can measure.  That will tell us what we really want to know:  if our product really does have a mean of 2 and a stdev of 1.25, what are the chances that a random sample like the one we took will give those results?” Is your team member correct?  If so, apply the Central Limit Theorem and tell me the results.  If not, tell me why not and what, if any, changes could be made to get the information the team wants.  (Note: this is specifically a question on the Central Limit Theorem, not on hypothesis testing.  Please don’t formulate or test any hypotheses here.  Just discuss the Central Limit Theorem.)

[Questiоn N] Yоu hаve а cоmpletely rаndomized design of four treatments for your grocery bag manufacturing.  You want to improve the tensile strength of the bags, and your engineers think the tensile strength can be a function of the hardwood concentration in the pulp.  Higher tensile strength is better. A team of engineers is investigating four levels of hardwood in the pulp, cleverly called Levels A, B, C, and D. You've run the ANOVA below in Excel on data taken from a fully randomized experiment.  The numbers refer to tensile strength. What is your analysis of the results?  In particular, does the treatment make a statistically significant difference, and if so, which treatment(s) are better or worse?  If you can, list them in order from best to worst.  If you can’t, tell me why you can’t.  Test at alpha = 0.05. Anova: Single Factor SUMMARY         Groups Count Sum Average Variance A 7 89 12.71 3.24 B 7 126 18.00 0.67 C 7 94 13.43 2.29 D 7 70 10.00 1.00 ANOVA             Source of Variation SS Df MS F P-value F crit Between Groups 231.8214286 3 77.27380952 42.98675497 8.30 E-10 3.00878657 Within Groups 43.14285714 24 1.797619048                     Total 274.9642857 27