Consider the following aggregate planning problem for one quarter: regular time overtime subcontracting production capacity/month 1,000 200 150 production cost/month 5 7 8 assume that there is no initial inventory and there is forecasted demand of 1,250 units in each month in the quarter. carrying cost is $1 per unit per month, and backlogs are not allowed. use the transportation model to find the optimal solution. how much excess capacity is there? units what is the cost of the optimal solution? how many units are actually made by subcontracting? how many units incur a holding cost? in other words, how many are made in one month and held to meet the demand of a future month? units

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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?

At cooly cola, we are testing the appeal of our new diet one cola. in a taste test of 250 randomly chosen cola drinkers, 200 consumers preferred diet one cola to the leading brand. assuming that the sample were large enough, the large-sample 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of cola drinkers that prefer diet one cola would be: