Centipede has asked you to develop a chase plan for the production of its earth moving equipment. below is the beginning inventory, monthly demand, and relevant work force information. determine the total hire/fire costs and the number of workers employed at the end of october. note: the ending inventory for october should be 0. july beginning inventory 1200: demand is july 3300; aug 3000; sept 2550; oct 2400. hiring costs $50 per worker; firing costs $100 per worker; production rate 15 units per month per worker; starting workforce 200 workers
a. $6,000 and 160 workers
b. $13,000 and 160 workers
c. $6,000 and 170 workers
d. $13,000 and 170 workers
e. $19,000 and 170 workers

Evelyn would like to open a small business that is categorized as a being in the distribution industry. to do this she could open a establishment.

Companies in the u.s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

Which of the following is not a characteristic of enterprise applications that cause challenges in implementation? a. they introduce "switching costs," making the firm dependent on the vendor. b. they cause integration difficulties as every vendor uses different data and processes. c. they are complex and time consuming to implement. d. they support "best practices" for each business process and function. e. they require sweeping changes to business processes to work with the software.