A company manufactures cardboard containers for packaging frozen fruit juices. The manufacturing process forms the containers by joining cardboard stock to a metal bottom. The container can be inspected to determine if there might be leaks along the cardboard seam or where the metal bottom is attached. It is known from long experience that 18% of cans produced by this process are defective. A random sample of 50 cans was selected from the production process on Monday, and it was found that 12% of the selected cans were defective. Because this seemed to indicate an improvement, another sample was selected of the same size on Tuesday, and in it 21% of the cans were defective. The numbers 12%, 18%, and 21% are, respectively, a

The amberssen specialty company is a chain of twelve retail stores that sell a variety of imported gift items, gourmet chocolates, cheeses, and wines in the toronto area. amberssen has an is staff of three people who have created a simple but effective information system of networked point-of-sale registers at the stores and a centralized accounting system at the company head- quarters. harry hilman, the head of amberssens is group, has just received the following memo from bill amberssen, sales director (and son of amberssen’s founder). harry—it’s time amberssen specialty launched itself on the internet. many of our competitors are already there, selling to customers without the expense of a retail storefront, and we should be there too. i project that we could double or triple our annual revenues by selling our products on the internet. i’d like to have this ready by - giving, in time for the prime holiday gift-shopping season. bill after pondering this memo for several days, harry scheduled a meeting with bill so that he could clarify bill’s vision of this venture. using the standard con- tent of a system request as your guide, prepare a list of questions that harry needs to have answered about this project.

The following costs were incurred in may: direct materials $ 44,800 direct labor $ 29,000 manufacturing overhead $ 29,300 selling expenses $ 26,800 administrative expenses $ 37,100 conversion costs during the month totaled:

Match the different financial task to their corresponding financial life cycle phases