A local engineering firm had to conduct a series of lay offs recently. They will lay off 10 people. The company has 180 employees that could be laid off. All are equally qualified so the company decides to use a lottery system to be carried out by the manager to decide who will be laid off. The manager posts a list of the employees to be laid off. Five employees are women and 5 are men. One of the women claims this is gender discrimination and starts a lawsuit against the company. 1. The manager responds, "How could there be gender discrimination when half of the employees laid off were female and half were male?" What additional information do you need to evaluate this statement?
2. How can you investigate the gender discrimination claim? Detail a process that could be used.
3. What percentage of the dots represent half or more females being laid off?
4. Interpret this percentage in context.
5. Do you have convincing evidence of gender discrimination? Explain.

In march 2012, the state of california started requiring that all packaging for food and drink with the additive 4-methylimidazole (4-mi) be clearly labeled with a cancer warning. because of this, both pepsi and coke changed their formula to eliminate 4-mi as an ingredient. if pepsi and coke did not change their formula, holding all else constant, what would have happened to the demand for these goods, assuming pepsi and coke were in a competitive market? a. the demand curve for both pepsi and coke would have shifted to the right, causing the price of both products to decrease and the profits for the companies to fall. b. the demand curve for pepsi and coke would have remained unchanged, but the price of both products would have decreased and the profits for the companies would have fallen. c. the demand curve for pepsi and coke would have decreased, but the prices and profits would not have changed. d. the demand curve for only one of them would change because pepsi and coke are substitutes. e. the demand curve for pepsi and coke would have shifted to the left, causing the price of both products to decrease and the profits for both companies to fall.