A production manager needs to develop a production schedule to meet the following demand: Period 1 2 3 4 Demand 500 1300 1600 500 production costs are as follows: production cost during regular time: $4 per unit cost of subcontracting: $5 per unit Inventory carrying cost = $3 per unit per period Back-order costs = $8 per unit per period. Regular production rate: 900 units per period You can subcontract at the rate of 150 units per period only during the second and third periods. Develop a production schedule for this scenario and answer the following questions. Equation: Surplus/Shortage in any period = Quantity Produced + Quantity Subcontracted − Demand What is the average inventory for the first period?

Verizon communications, inc., provides the following footnote relating to its leasing activities in its 10-k report. the aggregate minimum rental commitments under noncancelable leases for the periods shown at december 31, 2010, are as follows: years (dollars in millions) capital leases operatingleases 2011 $97 $1,898 2012 74 1,720 2013 70 1,471 2014 54 1,255 2015 42 1,012 thereafter 81 5,277 total minimum 418 $ 12,633 rental commitments less interest and (86) executory costs present value of 332 minimum lease payments less current (75) installments long-term obligation $257 at december 31, 2010 (a) confirm that verizon capitalized its capital leases using a rate of 7.4 %. (b) compute the present value of verizon's operating leases, assuming an 7.4% discount rate and rounding the remaining lease term to 3 decimal places. (use a financial calculator or excel to compute. do not round until your final answers. round each answer to the nearest whole number.)

You decided to charge $100 for your new computer game, but people are not buying it. what could you do to encourage people to buy your game?

In terms of the "great wheel of science", statistics are central to the research process (a) only between the hypothesis phase and the observation phase (b) only between the observation phase and the empirical generalization phase (c) only between the theory phase and the hypothesis phase (d) only between the empirical generalization phase and the theory phase