Week 5 Problems Applied Business and Research Statistics 561 1. SupplyCo. is a supplier to a number of firms in an industry. By carefully mining its customer data warehouse‚ SupplyCo. reveals a plausible new model for manufacturing and distributing industry products that would increase the overall efficiency of the industry system‚ reduce costs of production (leading to greater industry profits and more sales for SupplyCo.)‚ and result in greater sales and profits for some of the industry’s
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Week 4 DQ 1 What is your evaluation of the effectiveness of the U.S. health care system in the context of delivery‚ finance‚ management‚ and/or sustainability? What are the issues that prompted a need for health care reform? Support your answer with a credible data reference. Do not use a reference already used by another student. Shortell‚ Gillies‚ & Wu (2010) states that the United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world (16 percent of GDP)‚ but their health status indicators
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Table of Contents Question Descriptions Page Question 1 Multiple Choice Questions 4 Question 2 Absorption costing and standard costing Use the information provided below to prepare the Budgeted Income Statement for the year ended 30 June 2013 using the absorption costing method 2.2.1 Calculate the direct labour efficiency variance 2.2.2 Explain 2 possible causes of an unfavourable direct labour efficiency variance 5 Question 3.1 Question 3.2 Question 3.3 Question 3.4
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Workshop Questions – Week 4 1. Search the Web for a company that is purely Web based. Next‚ find the Web site of a competing company that is a hybrid (i.e.‚ they have a traditional brick-and-mortar business plus a presence on the Web). ASOS vs Westfield (a) Explain the pros and cons of dealing with each type of company. An example of a company that is purely Web based would be ASOS and an example of a competing company that is a hybrid would be Westfield. One of the pros of ASOS
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following samples: (i) 7‚ 4‚ 6‚ 2‚ 6‚ 7‚ 3‚ 5 (ii) 0‚ -3‚ 5‚ -2‚ -6‚ 4‚ 7‚ 9‚ 4‚ -3‚ 0‚ 2 b. The number of days for which each of 15 office workers of a firm was absent during a one-month period is as sfollows: 0‚ 1‚ 1‚ 3‚ 0‚ 0‚ 2‚ 5‚ 0‚ 1‚ 1‚ 2‚ 0‚ 1‚ 1 Calculate the interquartile range‚ variance and standard deviation of the number of days absent. 2. The number of hours a student spent studying for a statistics course over the past seven days was recorded as follows:
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crash cost per day per activity. [10 points] a) 800-300/7-3 =$125 per day crashed b) 350-250/3-1= $50 per day crashed c) 900-400/6-4= $250 per day crashed d) 500-200/3-2= $300 per day crashed e) 550-300/2-1= $250 per day crashed b) Which activities should be crashed to meet a project deadline of 10 days at minimum cost? What is the cost impact of crashing these activities? [3 points] Path ABE= normal length 12 (critical path) Path CDE= normal length 11 B for 1 day @additional
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personal integrity. Part 2 Select one of the following scenarios. Explain in 250-300 words how your personal ethics might help you determine a course of action in this situation. You need to take the day off to attend an event at your child’s school‚ but you don’t have any vacation time. Your work is really strict with sick time‚ and you are only allowed to take it if you are sick. You have more than enough sick time. Do you call in sick? No you do not call out sick. It would be unethical if you
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Team D Week Four Reflection HRM/531 February 2‚ 2015 Brittany Yohn‚ Terri Cephus‚ Audrey Donoghue Week Four Learning Team Reflection This week Team D collaborated on our individual performance management plans for Mr. Stonefield’s limousine service company. We used the information that we received from the correspondence between Traci and Mr. Stonefield which stated that he would like to open a small limousine service with intents to have twenty-five employees‚ with a turnover rate of 10%. Mr
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for the dinner babe! It looks great! It’s so nice to see you too!” He said in his most sarcastic tone. He was beginning to grow tired of her constant need for perfection. He literally spent the entire day doing homework and working. He came home‚ kicked of his shoes and showered the scent of his day away with just enough time to throw together pasta and a salad. Did she even notice the meal he had prepared for her before she got in his case about his shoes on the ground? Carmen and Aiden had been
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Week Four Discussion Question How might you evaluate the credentials and information of people who present themselves as nutrition experts? How do you determine these sources to be credible? Team C discussed the areas to look at when someone presents himself or herself as a nutrition expert. This is an issue that can be discussed from many views. One aspect to be considered is their credentials. Do they have education? What are their views on medicine? What are their views on holistic health?
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