Saphire, inc., bottles and distributes mineral water from the company’s natural springs in northern oregon. saphire markets two products: 12-ounce disposable plastic bottles and 1-gallon reusable plastic containers. required for 2018, saphire marketing managers project monthly sales of 500,000 12-ounce bottles and 130,000 1-gallon containers. average selling prices are estimated at $0.30 per 12-ounce bottle and $1.60 per 1-gallon container. prepare a revenues budget for saphire, inc., for the year ending december 31, 2018. saphire begins 2018 with 980,000 12-ounce bottles in inventory. the vice president of operations requests that 12-ounce bottles ending inventory on december 31, 2018, be no less than 660,000 bottles. based on sales projections as budgeted previously, what is the minimum number of 12-ounce bottles saphire must produce during 2018? the vp of operations requests that ending inventory of 1-gallon containers on december 31, 2018, be 300,000 units. if the production budget calls for saphire to produce 1,200,000 1-gallon containers during 2018, what is the beginning inventory of 1-gallon containers on january 1, 2018?

This problem has been solved! see the answerthe xyz corporation is interested in possible differences in days worked by salaried employees in three departments in the financial area. a survey of 23 randomly chosen employees reveals the data shown below. because of the casual sampling methodology in this survey, the sample sizes are unequal. research question: are the mean annual attendance rates the same for employees in these three departments? days worked last year by 23 employees department days worked budgets (5 workers) 278 260 265 245 258 payables (10 workers) 205 270 220 240 255 217 266 239 240 228 pricing (8 workers) 240 258 233 256 233 242 244 249 picture click here for the excel data filefill in the missing data. (round your p-value to 4 decimal places, mean values to 1 decimal place and other answers to 2group mean n std. dev variancesbudgets payables pricing total one factor anova source ss df ms f p-value treatment error total

2. the external environment (connect)choose whether each example belongs in the general, task, or internal environment.exampleenvironmenta worldwide recession task environment / general environment / internal environmentlocal mothers asking their community grocery store to carry no-salt cheerios-type cereal for their babies task environment / general environment / internal environmentchoose the phrase that best completes the following sentence.the relationship between the task environment and the general environment is best described as: a one-way system: changes in the task environment affect the general environment, but changes in the general environment do not affect the task environment.an open system: changes in the task environment affect the general environment, and changes in the general environment affect the task environment.a one-way system: changes in the general environment affect the task environment, but changes in the task environment do not affect the general environment.a closed system: changes in the general environment do not affect the task environment, and changes in the task environment do not affect the general environment.©bloomberg via getty imagesmanagement in the newsin april 2010, the explosion of british petroleum’s (bp) deepwater horizon oil drilling rig and the accompanying oil spill dramatically changed the external environment in which all oil companies operate. the explosion released more oil than any other accidental spill in history and had a huge impact on the waters and surrounding communities of the gulf coast. the conditions that led to the spill, the attempts to stop the spill, and the clean-up and aftermath of the spill prompted debates in the u.s. senate, concern on wall street, and attention from companies all over the world.match each oil spill event with a specific dimension of the general environment.eventgeneral environment dimensionbp stock prices falling 25% during the first month after the oil spill oil seeping into pelican nesting grounds, which will place the brown pelican back on the endangered species list people moving from louisiana to oklahoma to avoid the effects of the spill

What can be concluded from the data about the reliability and validity of the thermometers