Develop a house of quality for producing a computer mouse knowing the following:

1) Customer Requirements are:
Easy to move (Importance to the customer 3)
Does not freeze (Importance to the customer 5)
Easy to click (Importance to the customer 4)
Contoured to hand (Importance to the customer 4)
Easy to clean (Importance to the customer 2)

2) Engineering and Design Characteristics:
Lightweight
Well finished surface
Button resistance
Ergonomically designed
Product dimension
Sensitive laser

3) There two competitors in the market Company A and Company B rated as follows (1 being the worst and 5 the best):
Easy to move ([email protected], [email protected], Your Company @4)
Does not freeze ([email protected], [email protected], Your Company @1)
Easy to click ([email protected], [email protected], Your Company @2)
Contoured to hand ([email protected], [email protected], Your Company @5)
Easy to clean ([email protected], [email protected], Your Company @3)

Companies in the u.s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

Mikkelson corporation's stock had a required return of 12.50% last year, when the risk-free rate was 3% and the market risk premium was 4.75%. then an increase in investor risk aversion caused the market risk premium to rise by 2%. the risk-free rate and the firm's beta remain unchanged. what is the company's new required rate of return? (hint: first calculate the beta, then find the required return.) do not round your intermediate calculations.

Carmen’s beauty salon has estimated monthly financing requirements for the next six months as follows: january $ 9,000 april $ 9,000 february 3,000 may 10,000 march 4,000 june 5,000 short-term financing will be utilized for the next six months. projected annual interest rates are: january 9 % april 16 % february 10 may 12 march 13 june 12 what long-term interest rate would represent a break-even point between using short-term financing and long-term financing?