Porter, an employee at Oklahoma Medical Instruments, recently had his job redefined. He now has more flexibility in the hours he works and more say in the procedures used on the job. This suggests that Oklahoma Medical Instruments is trying to change Porter's job so that it has more:

The martinez legal firm (mlf) recently acquired a smaller competitor, miller and associates, which specializes in issues not previously covered by mlf, such as land use and intellectual property cases. given the increase in the firm's size and complexity, it is likely that its internal transaction costs willa. decrease. b. increase. c. become external transaction costs. d. be eliminated.

Jimmy's delicatessen sells large tins of tom tucker's toffee. the deli uses a periodic review system, checking inventory levels every 88 days, at which time an order is placed for more tins. order lead time is 22 days. daily demand is a constant 1515 tins, so average demand during the reorder period and order lead time (1010 days) is 150150 tins. draw a sawtooth diagram. assume that the beginning inventory level is equal to the restocking level and the desired service level is 99.9%. what is the safety stock level? (hint: look at the formula for calculating restocking level.) what is the average inventory level? the safety stock level is average inventory level is __chart: time (10,20,30), tins (0,150) lines touching both axisthe safety stock level is 0 tinsthe average inventory level is 75 tins

Suppose a mutual fund qualifies as having moderate risk if the standard deviation of its monthly rate of return is less than 3%. a mutual-fund rating agency randomly selects 27 months and determines the rate of return for a certain fund. the standard deviation of the rate of return is computed to be 2.19%. is there sufficient evidence to conclude that the fund has moderate risk at the alpha equals 0.05 level of significance? a normal probability plot indicates that the monthly rates of return are normally distributed.