PLEASE SEE ATTACHMENT SImagine you are a manager at a major bottling company. Customers have begun to complain that the bottles of the brand of soda produced in your company contain less than the adve

Assignment 1: Bottling Company Case Study

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Assignment 1: Bottling Company Case Study

Introduction

Begin your first paragraph here. The paper will be double-spaced throughout, including the references page. Be sure to indent each new paragraph.

Your paper must be typed, double spaced throughout (including the references page), using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides (American Psychological Association, 2010).  No citations and references are required, but if you use them, they must follow APA format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

You must include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. This is already set up for you in the template, so just enter your name where it says Author’s Name. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Data Set

You can share the data you used for your assignment in this section.

Descriptive Statistics

In this section, please calculate the mean, median, and standard deviation for ounces in the bottles based on the data provided to you by your instructor.

Confidence Interval

Construct a 95% Confidence Interval for the ounces in the bottles. Provide an interpretation of the confidence interval so that your manager would understand it.

Hypothesis Test

Conduct a hypothesis test to verify if the claim that a bottle contains less than sixteen (16) ounces is supported. Clearly state the logic of your test, the calculations, and the conclusion of your test. Remember the conclusion is more than just a reject the null or fail to reject the null, you have to state how the conclusion affects the customer’s claim.

Discussion and Conclusion

You have two options for the discussion. If you conclude that there are less than sixteen (16) ounces in a bottle of soda, speculate on three (3) possible causes. Next, suggest the strategies to avoid the deficit in the future. Or If you conclude that the claim of less soda per bottle is not supported or justified, provide a detailed explanation to your boss about the situation. Include your speculation on the reason(s) behind the claim, and recommend one (1) strategy geared toward mitigating this issue in the future.

*You do not have to use outside sources for your paper. If you decided to use them, you must follow-up APA guidelines. Because of the complexity of APA, I recommend you take one of two easy routes to cite references. One way is to find a good example and follow it closely. Another is to use the Strayer University Library’s resources that allow cut-and-paste references.

Even with cut-and-paste, though, there can be issues. Here’s what instructors will look for in your references: no first names of authors (only use initials); no ALL CAPS titles; italicized book and article titles; year/date published (in parenthesis). Here is a website that makes creating citations much easier: http://www.citefast.com/?s=APA .

Why should you use outside sources? The first reason is that our papers will be more persuasive if we’re using reliable, authoritative information, and we want to remind our reader that we didn’t just make stuff up. Using authoritative references creates an authoritative paper.

The second reason is that we want to avoid plagiarism penalties. Plagiarism can get us kicked out of school, and we’re here to get a degree, so we want to remain enrolled. Plagiarism can be avoided by simply letting your reader know where you found your information. For instance, if I tell you Bill Atkinson sold HyperCard to Apple for $100,000 dollars, I may be making it up. If I instead tell you Levy (2011, p. 15) reminds us that HyperCard was sold to Apple for $100,000 dollars by Bill Atkinson, you’ll be able to use my references list and look it up to help determine whether you want to believe me.

If it’s on your reference page, it needs to be referred to in your paper. If you’ve referred to it in your paper, it needs to be on your list of references. There should be no items on your reference page that don’t also include a parenthetical reference in your paper. If it’s listed as a reference, it must be mentioned in your paper.

So there you have it. Make your paper look like an APA paper. List your references. Refer to those references in your paper. And use this paper as a template if you like.

References

American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Levy, S. (2011). In the plex: How Google thinks, works, and shapes our lives. New York: Simon & Schuster.