24. The Milham Corporation has two divisions—North and South. The divisions have the following revenues and expenses: North South Sales $540,000 $880,000 Variable costs $250,000 $550,000 Contribution Margin $290,000 $330,000 Traceable fixed costs $250,000 $80,000 Allocated common corporate costs $100,000 $50,000 Net operating income (loss) ($60,000) $200,000 Management at Milham is considering the elimination of the North Division. If the North Division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. Total common corporate costs would be unaffected. Given these data, the elimination of the North Division would result in an increase or decrease to net operating income of:

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The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

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