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1. Briefly explain what is meant by an experiment and an experimental design.

2. In your capacity as assistant sales manager for a large office products retailer, you have been assigned the task of interviewing purchasing managers for medium and large companies in the San Francisco Bay area. The objective of the interview is to determine the office product buying plans of the company in the coming year. Develop a personal interview form that asks both issue-related questions and demographic questions.

3. A company has 18,000 employees. The file containing the names is ordered by employee number from 1 to 18,000. If a sample of 100 employees is to be selected from the 18,000 using systematic random sampling, within what range of employee numbers will the first employee selected come from?

4. Mount Hillsdale Hospital has 4,000 patient files listed alphabetically in its computer system. The office manager wants to survey a statistical sample of these patients to determine how satisfied they were with service provided by the hospital. She plans to use a telephone survey of 100 patients.

1. Describe how you would attach identification numbers to the patient files; for example, how many digits (and which digits) would you use to indicate the first patient file?

2. Describe how you would obtain the first random number to begin a simple random sample method.

3. How many random digits would you need for each random number you selected?

4. Use Excel to generate the list of patients to be surveyed.

Attachment:- Business Statistics.rar