James received a report from the production and purchasing departments with the following values for january: actual materials quantity: 90,000 pounds total actual cost: $47,200 standard materials quantity: 5.5 pounds/unit standard price: $0.55/pound units made: 16,300 two days later, he got a correction report from the purchasing department that they found another invoice for $6,200. how much would james’ materials price variance change for the month of january?

a : $3,900 f
b : $3,900 u
c : $6,200 u
d : $6,200 f

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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?