A one-way ticket for the Metra train system in Chicago costs $2. The city is considering increasing the price in order to raise money for some necessary repairs. The team responsible for the repair project has estimated that in order to cover the costs of the repairs, the Metra system needs to increase its revenue by 20%. The project supervisor believes this can be done by increasing the price of a ticket to $2.40, which is a 20% increase in the price. Do you agree that this would gene

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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?