An insurance company processes 900 claims per year. Assume 50 weeks per year. The average processing time for a claim is 8 weeks. 30 % of all claims received are car insurance claims, 40 % of all claims received are motorcycle insurance claims, 25 % are boat insurance claims, and the remaining are house insurance claims. Hint: These are throughput values. On average, there are 27 cars, 15 motorcycles, 48 boats, and some house claims in process. Hint: These are inventory values.

1. What is the average number of claims that are in process?

c. around 120 claims

b. around 108 claims

a. around 96 claims

e. around 165 claims

d. around 144 claims

2. How many house insurance claims are in process?

e. around 75 claims

d. around 59 claims

a. around 45 claims

c. around 54 claims

b. around 50 claims

3. How long, on average, does it take to process a car insurance claim?

a. around 2.4 weeks

d. around 5.0 weeks

b. around 3.0 weeks

c. around 4.0 weeks

e. around 6.5 weeks

4. How long, on average, does it take to process a house insurance claim?

c. around 60 weeks

a. around 36 weeks

e. around 86 weeks

b. around 45 weeks

d. around 192 weeks

(05.04 mc) a 2012 report from the u.s. surgeon general stated: "another common practice is strategically locating tobacco-related marketing materials where young children will be exposed to them. tobacco industry executives acknowledge that products and advertising should be placed at eye level (pollay 2007), but in california, 48% of stores had at least one cigarette marketing item at or below 3 feet from the floor (feighery et al. 2001)." it was also noted that 25% of cigarette displays were next to candy. in addition, a national study found that about one-third of the stores had tobacco ads at low heights. after california banned counter displays, some stores place cigarettes in transparent displays so product brands could still be seen. why did some stores use transparent units to display the cigarettes? (3 points) to comply with the new rules while still encouraging cigarette purchases via visual exposure to ensure children and minors are not exposed to cigarettes and their eye-catching packaging to minimize exposure to humidity, extending the shelf life of the cigarettes' tobacco to reduce the occurrence of shoplifting, since cigarettes are high-revenue items