Suppose you are representing the employees at a large corporation during contract negotiations. you have a list of the salaries of all the employees at the corporation (the salaries include the many lower level employees and the few high paid management employees) and you plan to find a measure of center (e. g. mean, median, or mode). a. which measure or center would you use to represent the employees in an effort to support your claim that the average salary of lower level employees is much lower than the national average (for lower level employees) and thus should be increased?

Waterway company’s record of transactions for the month of april was as follows. purchases sales april 1 (balance on hand) 672 @ $6.00 april 3 560 @ $11.00 4 1,680 @ 6.08 9 1,568 @ 11.00 8 896 @ 6.41 11 672 @ 12.00 13 1,344 @ 6.51 23 1,344 @ 12.00 21 784 @ 6.61 27 1,008 @ 13.00 29 560 @ 6.79 5,152 5,936 (a) calculate average-cost per unit. (b) assuming that periodic inventory records are kept in units only, compute the inventory at april 30 using lifo and average-cost. (c) assuming that perpetual inventory records are kept in dollars, determine the inventory using (1) fifo and (2) lifo. (d) compute cost of goods sold assuming periodic inventory procedures and inventory priced at fifo.