Suppose Procter & Gamble sells about 20 million bars of soap per week, but the demand is not constant and production management would like to get a better handle on how sales are distributed over the year. Let the following sales figures given in units of million bars represent the sales of bars per week over 1 year (in no particular order). 17.1 22.3 17 25.2 19.6 12.2 18.3 26.3 15.4 19.9 13.6 23.9 17.4 21.5 39.8 30.6 15 20.4 20.7 25.2 18.5 20.3 21.3 26.2 20.6 15.5 22.5 26.9 18.4 23.6 21.4 32.8 20 19.1 23.4 26.3 20.9 20.4 23.1 26.6 19.3 15.4 22.8 24.3 18.2 20.3 21.4 26.2 14.7 24.4 24 23.8

Required:
a. Construct a histogram chart to represent the data.
b. Creating a chart is not useful in and of itself unless it is properly interpreted. Write a brief analysis of the graph. What do you see in the graph that might be helpful to the production and sales people?

Lavage rapide is a canadian company that owns and operates a large automatic car wash facility near montreal. the following table provides data concerning the company’s costs: fixed cost per month cost per car washed cleaning supplies $ 0.70 electricity $ 1,400 $ 0.07 maintenance $ 0.15 wages and salaries $ 4,900 $ 0.30 depreciation $ 8,300 rent $ 1,900 administrative expenses $ 1,400 $ 0.03 for example, electricity costs are $1,400 per month plus $0.07 per car washed. the company expects to wash 8,000 cars in august and to collect an average of $6.50 per car washed. the actual operating results for august appear below. lavage rapide income statement for the month ended august 31 actual cars washed 8,100 revenue $ 54,100 expenses: cleaning supplies 6,100 electricity 1,930 maintenance 1,440 wages and salaries 7,660 depreciation 8,300 rent 2,100 administrative expenses 1,540 total expense 29,070 net operating income $ 25,030 required: calculate the company's revenue and spending variances for august.