While cindy, a current psychology major, worked frantically at her part-time job at ragtime resale preparing for the regional manager's visit in a few days, her department manager, lucinda, had an interesting word with her: "don't worry cindy, when i first started, i made $9.25 an hour too. it gets better! " cindy shook her head as she reflected on how little lucinda knew about what motivated her to seek perfection at this job. as she continued to neatly stack those pocket tees, she thought, "if the regional manager has the same attitude as lucinda, i'm looking for another job." cindy would prefer to work with a manager.

Electronics assembly inc. is a contract manufacturer that assembles consumer electronics for a number of companies. currently, the operations manager is assessing the capacity requirements as input into a bid for a job to assemble cell phones for a major global company. the company would assemble three models of cell phones in the same assembly cell. setup time between the phones is negligible. electronics assembly inc. operates two 8-hour shifts for 275 days per year. cell phone demand forecast (phones/year) processing time (minutes/phone) mars 47,000 19.8 saturn 35,000 20.7 neptune 7,500 16.2 a. calculate total capacity required by line. b. determine the total operating time available. c. calculate the total number of assembly cells. (round up your answer to the next whole number.)

Afarmer is an example of what kind of producer?

Which is cheaper: eating out or dining in? the mean cost of a flank steak, broccoli, and rice bought at the grocery store is $13.04 (money.msn website, november 7, 2012). a sample of 100 neighborhood restaurants showed a mean price of $12.75 and a standard deviation of $2 for a comparable restaurant meal. a. develop appropriate hypotheses for a test to determine whether the sample data support the conclusion that the mean cost of a restaurant meal is less than fixing a comparable meal at home. b. using the sample from the 100 restaurants, what is the p-value? c. at a = .05, what is your conclusion? d. repeat the preceding hypothesis test using the critical value approach