You Work in Marketing for a Company That Produces Work

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Multiple Choice

You work in marketing for a company that produces work boots. Quality control has sent you a memo detailing the length of time before the boots wear out under heavy use. They find that the boots wear out in an average of 208 days, but the exact amount of time varies, following a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 14 days. For an upcoming ad campaign, you need to know the percent of the pairs that last longer than six months-that is, 180 days. Use the empirical rule to approximate this percent.

• A) 2.5%
• B) 5%
• C) 95%
• D) 97.5%

Differentiate between types of discrimination (intentional vs. unintentional) and understand the legal avenues for addressing them.

Recognize the requirements for establishing a prima facie case of discrimination under Title VII and the plaintiff's burden of proof.

Understand the significance of employee count in the applicability of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

Grasp the concepts of back pay and punitive damages in discrimination cases.

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