A major department store chain is interested in estimating the average amount its credit card customers spent on their first visit to the chain’s new store in the mall. Fifteen credit card accounts were randomly sampled and analyzed. Using this sample the estimated population mean is $50.50 and the estimated population variance is 400. Assuming the distribution of the amount spent on their first visit is approximately normal, what is the shape of the sampling distribution of the sample mean that will be used to create the desired confidence interval for μ?

A large software development firm recently relocated its facilities. Top management is interested in fostering good relations with their new local community and has encouraged their professional employees to engage in local service activities. They wish to determine the average number of hours the firm’s professionals volunteer per month. They find the 95% confidence interval of 14.62 to 15.78. Which of the following is the correct interpretation?I. We are 95% confident that the average number of hours per month volunteered by professionals employed with this firm is between 14.62 and 15.78.II. 95% of all firm’s professional employees volunteer between 14.62 and 15.78 hours per month.III. The number of hours per month volunteered by the firm’s professional employees is between 14.62 and 15.78 95% of the time.

A difference between racial groups and ethnic groups is that:

What is the name for the belief that wages ought to reflect the worth of a job, not the gender or race of the worker?

The __________ is the number of deaths per thousand live births in a calendar year.

Most crossdressers are __________.

Your text notes that the offspring of parents from different racial categories cannot be categorized into a single racial category and concludes that

For Marx, the key variable in determining social class was

Today, great disparities exist in the distribution of educational resources. Due to the source of funding for education, school districts in wealthy suburban areas generally pay higher teachers’ salaries, have newer buildings, and provide state-of-the-art equipment. What is the source of funding for education?

Which of the following would be the subject of a macrolevel analysis of gender?