Ahouse of quality would depict the strength of the relationship between which of the following two​ items?

a. the design​ team's choice of material for a wallet and the materials that were considered but rejected by the design team.
b. the​ customer's need for a sealable change pocket and the​ customer's need for plastic inserts to display pictures.
c. the​ customer's desire for a durable wallet and the​ company's choice of material for the wallet.
d. the stitching used in your​ company's new product and the stitching used in a​ competitor's wallet.

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?