Lodging A travel agent wanted to know whether the price (in dollars) of Marriott, Hyatt, and Sheraton Hotels differed significantly. She knew that location of the hotel is a factor in determining price, so she blocked each hotel by location. After randomly selecting six cities and obtaining the room rate for each hotel, she obtained the following data:

(a) Normal probability plots for each treatment indicate that the requirement of normality is satisfied. Verify that the requirement of equal population variances for each treatment is satisfied.

(b) Is there sufficient evidence that the mean cost of the room is different among the three hotel chains at the  level of significance?

(c) If the null hypothesis from part (b) was rejected, use Tukey’s test to determine which pairwise means differ using a familywise error rate of .

A business mission statement is an integral part of strategic management. It provides direction for formulating, implementing, and evaluating strategic activities. This exercise will give you practice evaluating mission statements, a skill that is a prerequisite to writing a good mission statement. The mission statement for Nestlé is given below: Instructions Step 1 On a separate sheet of paper, write the nine mission statement components down the left side. Step 2 Write “yes” or “no” beside each number to indicate whether you feel the Nestlé mission statement has included the respective component. For any component that you record a “no,” write a good sentence to encompass that component. Step 3 Submit your paper to your instructor for a grade.