Imagine that it's December and you're ready to place the order for shimmer bathing suits that will fill the stores. So, on December 30th, you place the order. One week later, on January 6th, you get a
phone call from the bathing suit manufacturer saying that their equipment broke down, they had to
declare bankruptcy, and they can't produce the bathing suits. This is not good news. You know that it
takes at least four months to create this large of an order, so by the time you find and sign a contract
with a new production company and they get their team set up to produce the bathing suits, the
earliest they can probably ship the swimwear is July. That won't work at all! People want to start
buying bathing suits in April or May.
You've got a big problem on your hands, and if you don't solve the problem, you're going to lose your
job. If we apply the four-step problem-solving process to this scenario and seek to understand the
problem and create a strong plan, what might we do?

Dodd corporation uses the weighted-average method in its process costing system. this month, the beginning inventory in the first processing department consisted of 400 units. the costs and percentage completion of these units in beginning inventory were:

Part i a company's cereal is not selling well. create a 10-15-question survey that measures customers' preferences for the company's cereal product. then, answer the following questions: how many scale items will you put in the survey? justify your answer. will you use multiple-choice questions? why or why not? how many scale points will you use in the survey? justify your answer. what data type will be used in the survey? justify your answer. part ii as a second part of this assignment, create a set of survey questions, assuming that you sell cars. you are attempting to measure how customers perceive the quality of the cars that you sell. create three survey questions with simple category scales. justify why you selected those questions and scales. create three survey questions with multiple-choice, single-response scales. justify why you selected those questions and scales. create three survey questions with multiple-choice, multiple-response scales. justify why you selected those questions and scales. create three survey questions with likert scale summated ratings. justify why you selected those questions and scales.

Dr. dow jones wants to know whether a problem-based approach to teaching economics will result in higher academic performance than his traditional method. of the six sections of economics 101 at his university, dr. jones randomly assigns three sections to the traditional method and three sections to the problem-based method for unit 1 of the course. then all sections switch the instructional method for unit 2. he plans to compare the performance of the two groups of sections on their unit 1 and unit 2 exams. this study employs a design.