Buyer on fax: "Will take house for $587,500 if front lawn is fixed." Seller on fax in response: "Price is $589,000 and no front lawn." Buyer on fax in response: "$588,000 plus the front lawn." Seller on fax in response: $589,000 plus the front lawn." a. There is a contract for the sale of the house at $588,000 plus the lawn. b. There is a contract for the sale of the house at $589,000 plus the lawn. c. There is no contract. d. none of the above

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?