Management of Mittel Rhein AG of Köln, Germany, would like to reduce the amount of time between when a customer places an order and when the order is shipped. For the first quarter of operations during the current year the following data were reported:

Inspection time 0.4 days Wait time (from order to start of production) 16.2 days Process time 3.4 days Move time 1.0 days Queue time 3.5 days

Required: 1. Compute the throughput time. (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.) 2. Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) for the quarter. (Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent.) 3. What percentage of the throughput time was spent in non–value-added activities? (Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent.) 4. Compute the delivery cycle time. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 1 decimal place.) 5. If by using Lean Production all queue time during production is eliminated, what will be the new MCE? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your percentage answer to 1 decimal place.)

Consider the following stock price and shares outstanding information.

Consider the following stock price and shares outstanding information.

1. Compute the beginning and ending values for a price-weighted index and a market-value-weighted index. Assume a base value of 100 and Year 1 as the base period. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places.

             PWI_{Year 1}:

             PWI_{Year 2}:

             VWI_{Year 1}:

             VWI_{Year 2}:

2. Compute the percentage change in the value of each index during the year. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places.

   Percentage change in PWI:   %

   Percentage change in VWI:   %

3. Compute the percentage change for an unweighted index assuming $1,000 is invested in each stock. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

     %

Memorial Hospital calculated certain performance measures from their 2017 financial statements listed below.

The same performance measures for 2016 are listed for comparison.

Please indicate if the increase or decrease from 2016 to 2017 in these performance measures is beneficial to the organization or not and explain why.

This questions is asking for the increase or decrease of each individual performance measure to be analyzed (positive or negative contribution to the organization) and explained.

It is NOT asking for an overall analysis of the numbers. Please list if the performance measure increasing or decreasing is good or bad for the organization and why

A 13.05-year maturity zero-coupon bond selling at a yield to maturity of 8% (effective annual yield) has convexity of 157.2 and modified duration of 12.08 years. A 40-year maturity 6% coupon bond making annual coupon payments also selling at a yield to maturity of 8% has nearly identical modified duration—-12.30 years—-but considerably higher convexity of 272.9.

a. Suppose the yield to maturity on both bonds increases to 9%. What will be the actual percentage capital loss on each bond? What percentage capital loss would be predicted by the duration-with-convexity rule? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

b. Suppose the yield to maturity on both bonds decreases to 7%. What will be the actual percentage capital gain on each bond? What percentage capital gain would be predicted by the duration-with-convexity rule? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

What percentage of Average Total Payments is less than $7,000?

What percentage of Average Total Payments should be less than $7,000 based upon the mean and standard deviation?

What percentage of Average Total Payments is less than $10,000?

What percentage of Average Total Payments should be less than $10,000 based upon the mean and standard deviation?

Please show how the answer was calculated.

FCAT scores and poverty. In the state of Florida, elementary school performance is based on the average score obtained by students on a standardized exam, called the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). An analysis of the link between FCAT scores and sociodemographic factors was published in the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (Spring 2004). Data on average math and reading FCAT scores of third graders, as well as the percentage of students below the poverty level, for a sample of 22 Florida elementary schools are summarized by the number given below. (x= percentage of students below poverty level, and y=math score ) n = 22 ??xi = 1292.7 ??yi = 3781.1 ??x2i =88668 ??yi2 =651612 ??xiyi =218292 (a) Propose a straight-line model relating math-score to percentage of students below poverty level. (b) Find the least-squares regression line fitting the model to the data. (c) Interpret the estimates for intercept and slope in the context of the problem. (d) Test whether the math score is negatively related to the percentage of students below the poverty level. (e) Construct a 99% confidence interval for the slope of the model, and interpret your result in the context of the problem.

A 13.35-year maturity zero-coupon bond selling at a yield to maturity of 8% (effective annual yield) has convexity of 164.2 and modified duration of 12.36 years. A 40-year maturity 6% coupon bond making annual coupon payments also selling at a yield to maturity of 8% has nearly identical modified duration—-12.30 years—-but considerably higher convexity of 272.9.

a. Suppose the yield to maturity on both bonds increases to 9%. What will be the actual percentage capital loss on each bond? What percentage capital loss would be predicted by the duration-with-convexity rule? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

b. Suppose the yield to maturity on both bonds decreases to 7%. What will be the actual percentage capital gain on each bond? What percentage capital gain would be predicted by the duration-with-convexity rule? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)