Gproblem: a purchasing manager within your company has asked you to provide a summary of the time required to create and process a purchase order within the purchasing manager's functional group. at the start of 2017, the purchasing manager had established a goal of 31.25 minutes to create and process a purchase order. the ability to track purchase order processing time is enabled by the company's purchasing database. you have extracted samples of process data for the same time periods in both 2017 and 2018. the purchasing manager has asked you to provide a summary for the following: was the process time goal met if the results from 2017 and 2018 are combined? was there a statistically significant difference in the process times when comparing 2017 to 2018? what do you recommend as a next step? data file is attached below. assumption: assume the purchasing manager considers all purchase orders to have the same level of complexity. therefore, the time required to process a purchase order should be relatively consistent. hint: remember to think of this scenario graphically, then from an analysis perspective.

The bonds issued by the south foot bear a coupon rate of 7.5 percent, payable semiannually. the bonds mature in 6.5 years, sell at par, and have a $1,000 face value. what is the yield to maturity

Auniversity spent $1.8 million to install solar panels atop a parking garage. these panels will have a capacity of 400 kilowatts (kw) and have a life expectancy of 20 years. suppose that the discount rate is 20%, that electricity can be purchased at $0.10 per kilowatt-hour (kwh), and that the marginal cost of electricity production using the solar panels is zero. hint: it may be easier to think of the present value of operating the solar panels for 1 hour per year first. approximately how many hours per year will the solar panels need to operate to enable this project to break even? a. a.3,696.48 b.14,785.92 c.9,241.20 if the solar panels can operate only for 8,317 hours a year at maximum, the project (would/would not)break even?

In december of 2004, the company you own entered into a 20-year contract with a grain supplier for daily deliveries of grain to its hot dog bun manufacturing facility. the contract called for "10,000 pounds of grain" to be delivered to the facility at the price of $100,000 per day. until february 2017, the supplier provided processed grain which could easily be used in your manufacturing process. however, no longer wanting to absorb the cost of having the grain processed, the supplier began delivering whole grain. the supplier is arguing that the contract does not specify the type of grain that would be supplied and that it has not breached the contract. your company is arguing that the supplier has an onsite processing plant and processed grain was implicit to the terms of the contract. over the remaining term of the contract, reshipping and having the grain processed would cost your company approximately $10,000,000, opposed to a cost of around $1,000,000 to the supplier. after speaking with in-house counsel, it was estimated that litigation would cost the company several million dollars and last for years. weighing the costs of litigation, along with possible ambiguity in the contract, what are three options you could take to resolve the dispute? which would be the best option for your business and why?