Job destroyer? ~ The Wellcome Global Monitor is the world’s largest study into how people around the world think and feel about science and major health challenges. The battle between man and machines goes back centuries. Are they taking our jobs? Or are they merely easing our workload? According to the article in The Guardian titled "Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data", a study by economists at the consultancy firm Deloitte concluded that rather than destroying jobs, technology has been a "great job-creating machine". The article further states that machines will take on more repetitive and laborious tasks but seem no closer to eliminating the need for human labor than at any time in the last 150 years.

Alocal club is selling christmas trees and deciding how many to stock for the month of december. if demand is normally distributed with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 20, trees have no salvage value at the end of the month, trees cost $20, and trees sell for $50 what is the service level?

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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