A quality improvement project was initiated in an industry that has seasonal demand for their product, coolers/ice chests, which are purchased/sold more frequently in the summer. The goal of the project is to increase sales. The project has reached the point where the team is developing their baseline measurement. Depicting a baseline measurement for this project is best facilitated by which quality improvement tool?A. HistogramB. Pareto chartC. SIPOC diagramD. Run chart

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Ummit record company is negotiating with two banks for a $157,000 loan. fidelity bank requires a compensating balance of 24 percent, discounts the loan, and wants to be paid back in four quarterly payments. southwest bank requires a compensating balance of 12 percent, does not discount the loan, but wants to be paid back in 12 monthly installments. the stated rate for both banks is 9 percent. compensating balances will be subtracted from the $157,000 in determining the available funds in part a. a-1. calculate the effective interest rate for fidelity bank and southwest bank. (do not round intermediate calculations. input your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) a-2. which loan should summit accept? southwest bank fidelity bank b. recompute the effective cost of interest, assuming that summit ordinarily maintains $37,680 at each bank in deposits that will serve as compensating balances

Any point on a country's production possibilities frontier represents a combination of two goods that an economy: