Thirty-five samples of size 7 each were taken from afertilizer-bag-filling machine at Panos Kouvelis Lifelong Lawn Ltd. The results were: Overall mean 60.75 lb.; Average range R = 1.64 lb.
For the given sample size, the control limits for the 3-sigma x chart are:
a. Upper Control Limit-x = __ (round l to nearest 3 decimal places)
b. Lower Control Limit -x = __
The control limits for 3 sigma R chart are:
c. Upper Control Limit (UCLr) = __ lb. (round to nearest three decimal places)
d. Lower Control Limit (UCLr) = ___ lb

Andy owns islander surfboard inc. in the past, andy has always given his employees bonuses during the holidays if they reached certain sales goals. this year, even though the company is thriving, he decided to cut bonuses from employees and award them to himself instead. what ethical theory of leadership is andy following?

Adrawback of short-term contracting as an alternative to making a component in-house is thata. it is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity so the principal company has no control over the agent. b. the supplying firm has no incentive to make any transaction-specific investments to increase performance or quality. c. it fails to allow a long planning period that individual market transactions provide. d. the buying firm cannot demand lower prices due to the lack of a competitive bidding process.

Varto company has 9,400 units of its sole product in inventory that it produced last year at a cost of $23 each. this year’s model is superior to last year’s, and the 9,400 units cannot be sold at last year’s regular selling price of $42 each. varto has two alternatives for these items: (1) they can be sold to a wholesaler for $8 each, or (2) they can be reworked at a cost of $251,100 and then sold for $34 each. prepare an analysis to determine whether varto should sell the products as is or rework them and then sell them.