Wilson Publishing Company produces books for the retail market. Demand for a current book is expected to occur at a constant annual rate of 7,800 copies. The cost of one copy of the book is $13.5. The holding cost is based on an 17% annual rate, and production setup costs are $135 per setup. The equipment on which the book is produced has an annual production volume of 26,000 copies. Wilson has 250 working days per year, and the lead time for a production run is 14 days. Use the production lot size model to compute the following values: Minimum cost production lot size. Round your answer to the nearest whole number. Do not round intermediate values.

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?