Golf-course designers have become concerned that old courses are becoming obsolete since new technology has given golfers the ability to hit the ball so far. designers, therefore, have proposed that new golf courses need to be built expecting that the average golfer can hit the ball more than 260 yards on average. suppose a random sample of 131 golfers be chosen so that their mean driving distance is 257 yards. the population standard deviation is 42.9. use a 5% significance level.

Peyton taylor drew a map with scale 1 cm to 10 miles. on his map, the distance between silver city and golden canyon is 3.75 cm. what is the actual distance between silver city and golden canyon?

You are chairman of the board of a successful technology firm. there is a nominal federal corporate tax rate of 35 percent, yet the effective tax rate of the typical corporation is about 12.6%. your firm has been clever with use of transfer pricing and keeping money abroad and has barely paid any taxes over the last 5 years; during this same time period, profits were $28 billion. one member of the board feels that it is un-american to use various accounting strategies in order to avoid paying taxes. others feel that these are legal loopholes and corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to minimize taxes. one board member quoted what the ceo of exxon once said: “i’m not a u. s. company and i don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the u. s.” what are the alternatives? what are your recommendations? why do you recommend this course of action?

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