Acompany produces 500 microwave ovens per month, each of which includes one electrical circuit. the company currently manufactures the circuits in-house but is considering outsourcing the circuits at a contract cost of $28 each. currently, the cost of producing circuits in-house includes variable costs of $26 per circuit and fixed costs of $7,000 per month. assume the company could eliminate all fixed costs by outsourcing and that there is no alternative use for the facilities presently being used to make circuits. if the company outsources, operating income will

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?

One pound of material is required for each finished unit. the inventory of materials at the end of each month should equal 20% of the following month's production needs. purchases of raw materials for february would be budgeted to be:

Suppose a country's productivity last year was 84. if this country's productivity growth rate of 5 percent is to be maintained, this means that this year's productivity will have to be: