In the following table, indicate whether the researcher in the scenario is collecting experimental data or observational data. Scenario
Experimental Data
Observational Data
A sociologist conducts interviews with former protestors and activists in order to study the struggles of the civil rights movement.

An oncologist randomly assigns rats into two groups, giving one group a new drug intended to fight cancer and giving the other group a placebo, in order to study the effects of the new drug.

A pediatrician randomly assigns babies to two different groups, giving one group a new type of infant formula and the other group conventional formula, in order to study the effects of the new formula.

All else equal, economists are more likely to have access to data than to data.

Instructions: use the following information to construct the 2000 balance sheet and income statement for carolina business machines. round all numbers to the nearest whole dollar. all numbers are in thousands of dollars. be sure to read the whole problem before you jump in and get started. at the end of 1999 the firm had $43,000 in gross fixed assets. in 2000 they purchased an additional $14,000 of fixed asset equipment. accumulated depreciation at the end of 1999 was $21,000. the depreciation expense in 2000 is $4,620. at the end of 2000 the firm had $3,000 in cash and $3,000 in accounts payable. in 2000 the firm extended a total of $9,000 in credit to a number of their customers in the form of accounts receivable. the firm generated $60,000 in sales revenue in 2000. their cost of goods sold was 60 percent of sales. they also incurred salaries and wages expense of $10,000. to date the firm has $1,000 in accrued salaries and wages. they borrowed $10,000 from their local bank to finance the $15,000 in inventory they now have on hand. the firm also has $7,120 invested in marketable securities. the firm currently has $20,000 in long-term debt outstanding and paid $2,000 in interest on their outstanding debt. over the firm's life, shareholders have put up $30,000. eighty percent of the shareholder's funds are in the form of retained earnings. the par value per share of carolina business machines stock is

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Which of the following results from the latest decision round is most important in providing guidance to company managers make in strategic moves and decisions to improve their companies competitiveness and rank among the top-performing companies in the current decision round