Adesign engineer wants to construct a sample mean chart for controlling the service life of a halogen headlamp his company produces. he knows from numerous previous samples that this service life is normally distributed with a mean of 500 hours and a standard deviation of 20 hours. on three recent production batches, he tested service life on random samples of four headlamps, with these results:
sample service life
1 495 500 505 500
2 525 515 505 515
3 470 480 460 470
what is the sample mean service life for sample 2?
a) 460 hours
b) 495 hours
c) 515 hours
d) 525 hours

Suppose an economy has only two sectors: goods and services. each year, goods sells 80% of its outputs to services and keeps the rest, while services sells 62% of its output to goods and retains the rest. find equilibrium prices for the annual outputs of the goods and services sectors that make each sector's income match its expenditures.

Suppose a holiday inn hotel has annual fixed costs applicable to its rooms of $1.2 million for its 300-room hotel, average daily room rents of $50, and average variable costs of $10 for each room rented. it operates 365 days per year. the amount of operating income on rooms, assuming an occupancy* rate of 80% for the year, that will be generated for the entire year is *occupancy = % of rooms rented

One of your new suppliers, kim, has been hearing rumors about your firm’s lack of capability to deliver high quality products and writes an email asking you to address the claims being made. in replying to her, you want to be sure that you are very clear and leave no room for misinterpretation. which of the following aspects of effective communication should you give the most attention? (a) making sure you understand kim’s areas of expertise. (b) supporting your reply with relevant data and facts. (c) establishing your credibility as an expert. (d) paying attention to implied communications.