Question 1 The Justin Manufacturing Company produces products A, B, and C. Although Justin could sell up to 25 units of A, 30 units of B, and 25 units of C each week, a limitation of 179 machine-hours per week prevents Viking from meeting these sales demands. The product information is as follows: A B C Unit selling price $120 $70 $80 Variable manufacturing costs: $81 $35 $51 Variable selling and admin. costs $5 $5 $5 Machine-hours per unit 2 2 3 There are no fixed selling or administrative expenses. Fixed manufacturing costs are $1,000 per week. Required: a. Develop a schedule indicating the order in which Viking should allocate machine-hours to each product. b. Develop a schedule indicating the number of units of each product that Viking should produce each week.

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?