Homestead crafts, a distributor of handmade gifts, operates out of owner emma finn’s house. at the end of the current period, emma reports she has 700 units (products) in her basement, 29 of which were damaged by water and cannot be sold. she also has another 100 units in her van, ready to deliver per a customer order, terms fob destination, and another 100 units out on consignment to a friend who owns a retail store. how many units should emma include in her company’s period-end inventory?

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1