In the 1970’s the Ford Motor Company sold its subcompact Pinto model with known design defects. In particular, the gas tank’s design and location led to rupture, leaks and explosion in low-speed, rear-impact collisions. Fifty-nine people burned to death in Pinto accidents. In a cost-benefit analysis weighing the cost of fixing the defects ($11 per vehicle) versus the firm’s potential liability for lawsuits on behalf of accident victims. Ford had placed the value of a human life at $200,000. Ford eventually recalled 1.4 million Pintos to fix the gas tank problem for a cost around $35 million. In addition the automaker ultimately paid out millions more in liability settlements and incurred substantial damage to its reputation. a. Critique Ford’s actions from the perspective of the NSPE code of Ethics. b. What should engineers do when the product they are designing has a known safety defect with an inexpensive remedy?

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This problem has been solved! see the answerthe xyz corporation is interested in possible differences in days worked by salaried employees in three departments in the financial area. a survey of 23 randomly chosen employees reveals the data shown below. because of the casual sampling methodology in this survey, the sample sizes are unequal. research question: are the mean annual attendance rates the same for employees in these three departments? days worked last year by 23 employees department days worked budgets (5 workers) 278 260 265 245 258 payables (10 workers) 205 270 220 240 255 217 266 239 240 228 pricing (8 workers) 240 258 233 256 233 242 244 249 picture click here for the excel data filefill in the missing data. (round your p-value to 4 decimal places, mean values to 1 decimal place and other answers to 2group mean n std. dev variancesbudgets payables pricing total one factor anova source ss df ms f p-value treatment error total