Suppose the amount of time a service technician needs to change the oil in a car is uniformly distributed between [a] and [b] minutes.  Let X = the time needed to change the oil on a car. Find 

The nurse is auscultating over a patient’s femoral arteries and notices the presence of a bruit on the left side. What statement would the nurse use to describe a bruit?

The nurse is conducting an abdominal assessment and listening to bowel sounds. How long should auscultation take place before they can be determined as absent?

How does Marlowe try to convince Harriet Huntress to leave Gerald Jeeter?

Jenny recently learned of plans to cut down an old, beautiful tree on her campus to make way for a new bike path. Jenny is opposed to cutting down the tree, so she decides to survey some students at her university to see if others also oppose cutting down the tree. She plans to share the results of her survey with the school administration to argue to keep the tree. One question on Jenny’s survey asks, “Do you oppose not cutting down this tree?” A problem with this question is that it is which type of question?

Is it ethical for psychological researchers to observe people in a public place?

Increasing the quality of performance measure, and ensuring the fairness of feedback delivery can increase feedback acceptance, which will subsequently result in employees’ behavioral adjustment. 

One of the advantages of the results approach to performance measurement is that it disassociates an individual’s results from the organization’s strategies and goals. True or false?

We are here at last for our first exam! You have worked hard this quarter and in your career to arrive at this moment, an achievement that has assuredly involved overcoming many challenges. This exam is just a part of your overall grade comprised of many other components, of which you’ve done well thus far. Take a deep breath, relax for a moment, and for a single point, please select the only answer choice below! If you disagree with this statement, please select the answer choice below anyway in order to receive the point, and please reach out to me later to commiserate and let me know why you disagree. 🙂

You leave two open Petri dishes out overnight in the lab: one containing a complex medium like tryptic soy agar (TSA), and the other a chemically defined medium like glucose salts agar (GSA). On which do you expect more growth the next day, and why? Please briefly explain.