The athens vegan’s farm owns a greenhouse, which produces strawberries and squash to sell at the local farmer’s market. the greenhouse can grow any combination of the two. they sell the strawberries in batches of 12 quart boxes, and the squash in 10 lbs. bushels. they have 10,000 square feet available for planting this year. each bunch box of strawberries take about 4 square feet and each bushel of squash about 5 square feet. special fertilizer is required for fruit and vegetables: strawberries need 5 pounds and squash 2 pounds. the availability of the fertilizer is limited to 5000 pounds. sales commitments require the company to grow at least 500 boxes of strawberries. profit contributions are $6 per box and $8 per bushel of squash. if the manager’s objective is to maximize profit, formulate the production plan as a linear program and solve on excel solver. what are the profit maximizing quantities and the optimal amount of profit?

The hawthorne works was a large western electric factory with 45,000 employees. during the 1920s and 1930s, hawthorne works was the site of some well-known industrial studies. in one of the studies, researchers investigated the impact of different working conditions on worker productivity. prior to the start of the study, researchers secretly measured workers' productivity for several weeks. then researchers chose two workers, who then chose their own teams. the teams were separated from the general workforce and completed their work in different experiment rooms where the researchers could observe them more easily. over a 5-year period researchers manipulated the structure of the workday for each team (number and duration of breaks and number of hours per shift). for each of these changes in working conditions, the researchers measured the effect on productivity. for some conditions, such as frequent short breaks, workers rebelled by intentionally decreasing productivity.why did the researchers secretly measure the workers' productivity before creating the two treatment groups? a, to create similar treatment groups so that a cause-and-effect relationship could be establishedb, to draw conclusions about the productivity of all workers in the plant based on the test groupsc, to directly control for confounding variablesd, to provide a baseline for measuring worker productivity

1.     regarding general guidelines for the preparation of successful soups, which of the following statements is true? a. thick soups made with starchy vegetables may thin during storage. b. soups should be seasoned throughout the cooking process. c. finish a cream soup well before serving it to moderate the flavor. d. consommés take quite a long time to cool. student c   incorrect

What impact might an economic downturn have on a borrower’s fixed-rate mortgage? a. it might cause a borrower’s payments to go up. b. it might cause a borrower’s payments to go down. c. it has no impact because a fixed-rate mortgage cannot change. d. it has no impact because the economy does not affect interest rates.