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A Gym Is Offering a New 6-Week Weight Loss Exercise

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A gym is offering a new 6-week weight loss exercise program for its members. Members who sign up for the program are weighed and measured once a week for the duration of the program. The owners of the gym want to know if the weight loss program actually helps people lose weight. What variable could be a possible confounding factor in determining the cause of weight loss?

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Understand the concept of internal rate of return (IRR) and its role in capital budgeting decisions, including the relationship with a firm's required return.

Grasp the limitations and advantages of the IRR method, especially in the context of independent vs. mutually exclusive projects.

Identify situations where NPV and IRR methods can lead to different investment decisions and understand the reasons behind these differences.

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