Greer company provides architectural services for mall development companies. the following data are available for 2016. activity cost pool estimated overhead expected use of cost driver per activity secretarial support $220,000 25,000 professional hours direct labor fringe benefits 200,000 $500,000 direct labor cost printing and copying 30,000 20,000 pages computer support 250,000 50,000 minutes liability insurance 140,000 $2,800,000 billed revenue compute the activity-based overhead rates.

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?