Brock's Candy uses a machine for bagging hard candy. The process has been designed so that the content of each bag will weigh 8.000 ounces. The following historical information from five samples with sample size n = 4 was found. Using a value for A2 of 0.73 and 3-sigma limits, what is the value of the upper controllimit for a Means (x-bar) chart? Sample Mean bag weight Minimum bag weight Maximum bag weight
1 7.97oz 7.89oz 7.92oz
2 8.093oz 7.900oz 8.20z
3 8.004oz 7.956oz 8.052oz
4 8.036oz 8.001oz 8.210oz
5 7.996oz 7.853oz 8.912oz

a. 40.036 ounces
b. 8.007 ounces
c. 8.150 ounces
d. 40.074 ounces
e. 40.503 ounces

In mexico, many garment or sewing shops found they could entice many young people to work for them if they offered clean, air conditioned work areas with high-quality locker rooms to clean up in after the work day. typically, traditional garment shops had to offer to get workers to apply for the hard, repetitive, and somewhat dangerous work. a. benchmark competitive wages b.compensating differentials c. monopoly wages d. wages based on human capital development of each employee

David burdick is the ceo of acme bubblegum, a successful public company. as one of the cofounders of the company, burdick has enjoyed speaking and writing about the success of acme bubblegum for several years. typically, he speaks at conferences or directly to the press, but recently, he has been blogging about his firm anonymously. specifically, he defended a recent advertising campaign that was unpopular among consumers and pointedly attacked one of acme bubblegum’s competitors. burdick deeply enjoys his anonymous blogging and believes that none of his readers actually know that he works for acme bubblegum.should burdick be allowed to praise his company’s performance anonymously online? should he be allowed to attack his competitors without disclosing his relationship with the company? how would you feel if the ceo of a company at which you shopped was secretly writing criticisms of his or her competition? how would you feel if you knew a writer for your favorite blog was actually closely involved in a company that the blog discussed? 1. define the ethical issue? 2. who are the primary stakeholders? 3. what are the possible alternatives? 4. how could you evaluate the ethical implications of the alternative actions (use appropriate decision rules)? 5. what action would you recommend and why?

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