Adesign engineer wants to construct a sample mean chart for controlling the service life of a halogen headlamp his company produces. he knows from numerous previous samples that this service life is normally distributed with a mean of 500 hours and a standard deviation of 20 hours. on three recent production batches, he tested service life on random samples of four headlamps, with these results:
sample service life
1 495 500 505 500
2 525 515 505 515
3 470 480 460 470
what is the sample mean service life for sample 2?
a) 460 hours
b) 495 hours
c) 515 hours
d) 525 hours

in 2001, dell computer became the world’s largest personal computer vendor, continuing to

gain market share and post profits in an industry struggling with slumping sales and billions of

dollars in losses. dell sells 90% of its pcs directly to the final customer, largely bypassing the

reseller channel that accounts for most of the world’s pc sales. this direct customer relationship

is the key to dell’s business model, and provides distinct advantages over the indirect sales

model. dell’s direct relationship with the customer allows it to tailor its offerings to customer

needs, offer add-on products and services, and use the internet to offer a variety of customer

services. in addition, dell’s pcs are built to customers’ specifications upon receipt of an order,

giving dell additional advantages over indirect pc vendors who must try to forecast demand and

ship products based on those forecasts. dell’s direct sales and build-to-order model has achieved

superior performance in the pc industry in terms of inventory turnover, reduced overhead, cash

conversion, and return on investment (kraemer, et al., 2000).

explanation:

answer$225.00;