ABC Enterprises is a growing company in which employees must frequently drive company vehicles to meet clients for business purposes. Travel is only within a 2-hour radius of the main office, but employees frequently find themselves on the road for lunch and/or dinner. Currently, each employee is allotted 35 dollars each day to cover meals on the days when they travel to meet their clients. The money is just for the employees' meals (there is a separate budget if they take their clients out). They are also reimbursed for gas/mileage out of a separate budget. Employees have complained that this food allowance is not enough, especially when traveling to some of the more costly areas. A survey was taken to get recommendations for a new allotment. The response rate to the survey was about 55% of the employees at the company.

This discussion summarizes what you have learned from our discussions. Focus your answers on topics tied to statistical analysis from the past 8 weeks.

• What evidence, if any, supports the claim that 35 dollars/day is insufficient to cover all three meals?
• Why cant we just use the sample data and say its the same as the population data? Why did we have to make confidence intervals and do hypothesis tests?
• Why is organization of data essential in statistics?
• What kinds of skills that you needed/learned in this class would you be able to use in a business situation in your field?
• If you were the decision-maker in ABC Enterprises who must balance employee desires with the company budget, what would you do with the meal allotment? Why?