The average age of teaching staff in a certain institution is 51.0 years old. Assume that the distribution of ages is normal and has a standard deviation of 8.0 years. If 9 teaching staff are chosen at random for a committee, find the probability that the average age of those teaching staff is less than 52.9 years.

In a recent annual report, apple computer reported the following in one of its disclosure notes: "warranty expense: the company provides currently for the estimated cost for product warranties at the time the related revenue is recognized." this note exemplifies apple's use of: (a) conservatism.(b) matching. (c) realization principle. (d) economic entity.

The servers at gerry frasier's busy ice cream shop decided that putting more ice cream in the sundaes and cones would bring back more customers. after three months, gerry was surprised to discover that his profit had

Moon flower cosmetics company executives are aware that their asian customer base is interested in advanced skin care treatments beyond moon flower's traditional herbal and organic compounds. moon flower and a large american chemical company are in discussions to create a 50-50 partnership in a new firm, which would create skin care treatments based on innovative chemical formulations that would be marketed both in asia and in the united states. beyond being a cross-border alliance, this partnership can be called a(n)a. nonequity strategic alliance.b. joint venture.c. horizontal complementary alliance.d. equity strategic alliance.