TABLE 8-1 The Managers of a Company Are Worried About the Morale

question 15

Short Answer

TABLE 8-1
The managers of a company are worried about the morale of their employees. In order to determine if a problem in this area exists, they decide to evaluate the attitudes of their employees with a standardized test. They select the Fortunato test of job satisfaction, which has a known standard deviation of 24 points.
-Referring to Table 8-1, due to financial limitations, the managers decide to take a sample of 45 employees. This yields a mean score of 88.0 points. A 90% confidence interval would go from ________ to ________.

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Definitions:

Payback Period

The duration it takes for an investment to return its original cost to the investor.

NPV

Net Present Value (NPV) is a financial metric used to evaluate the profitability of an investment or project by discounting all expected future cash flows back to their present value.

Profitability Index

A financial tool that calculates the relationship between the costs and benefits of a project by dividing the present value of future cash flows by the initial investment cost.

Mutually Exclusive

Situations or events that cannot occur at the same time—choosing one precludes the selection of the other.