An individual purchased a $100,000 joint life policy on himself and his wife. eight years later he died in an automobile accident. how much will his wife receive from the policy?
a. nothing
b. $50,000
c. $100,000
d. $200,000

Your project team’s recommendations to increase productivity have been approved and your team is now working on an implementation plan. in order to accomplish the plan, several subject matter experts from various parts of the organization have been brought in to assist. you have noticed friction and conflict among team members. some of the disagreement and opposition on your team supports the achievement of team goals and objectives. this type of conflict can be described as:

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?

The purpose of safety stock is to: a. eliminate the possibility of a stockout. b. control the likelihood of a stockout due to variable demand and/or lead time. c. eliminate the likelihood of a stockout due to erroneous inventory tally. d. protect the firm from a sudden decrease in demand. e. replace failed units with good ones.