Increasing Numbers of Businesses Are Offering Child-Care Benefits for Their $85 \%$

question 46

Essay

Increasing numbers of businesses are offering child-care benefits for their workers. However, one union claims that more than $85 \%$ of firms in the manufacturing sector still do not offer any child-care benefits. A random sample of 420 manufacturing firms is selected and asked if they offer child-care benefits. Suppose the $p$ -value for this test was reported to be $p = .1066$ . State the conclusion of interest to the union. Use $\alpha = .10$ .

Comprehend the importance of safety information and how to communicate it effectively in technical documents.

Identify effective strategies for defining terms within a document.

Recognize the difference between effective and ineffective sentence definitions.

Understand organizational patterns commonly used in technical writing.

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Definitions:

Episodic Buffer

Part of Baddeley's model of working memory, it is a temporary storage system that integrates information from different sources and bridges short-term memory with long-term memory.

Central Executive

A component of working memory model that acts as a control system, orchestrating the processing of information by directing attention, making plans, and integrating information.

Rehearsal

The repetition of an event that keeps the memory of that event in the short-term store.