At the beginning of the year, you purchased a share of stock for $41. Over the year the dividends paid on the stock were $2.25 per share. a. Calculate the return if the price of the stock at the end of the year is $36. (Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answer to 2 decimal places. (e. g., 32.16)) b. Calculate the return if the price of the stock at the end of the year is $46. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places. (e. g., 32.16))

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?

Why are the four primary service outputs of spatial convenience, lot size, waiting time, and product variety important to logistics management? provide examples of competing firms that differ in the level of each service output provided to customers?

Health insurance protects you if you experience any of the following except: a: if you have to be hospitalized b: if you damage someone's property c: if you need to visit a clinic d: if you can't work because of illness