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A loom operator in a textiles factory earns $17.00 per hour. By contract, the employee earns $25.50 (time and a half) for overtime hours. The operator worked 43 hours during the first week of May, and overtime is paid after the usual 40 hours.
1) Compute the loom operator's compensation for the week.
2) Calculate the employee's total overtime premium for the week.
3) How much of the employee's total compensation for the week is direct-labor cost? How much is overhead?

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?

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When making broccoli cream soup, the broccoli and aromatics should be a. burned. b. simmered. c. puréed. d. sweated.