The heights of all adult American women are normally distributed with a mean of 63.6 inches and a standard deviation of 5 inches. Give the standard (z) score and approximate percentile (from the tables) for women with each of the following heights:

1. 63 inches

2. 60 inches

3. 62.5 inches

1. Lee Company's standards for the most recent period are given below. Fixed and variable manufacturing overhead costs are applied to products on the basis of machine hours. The denominator volume of machine hours is 9,000.

   	Standard Quantity or Hours per unit	Standard Price or Rate per unit	Standard Cost per unit
   Direct Materials	3 feet	$6 per foot	$18
   Direct Labor	1.5 direct labor hours	$10 per direct labor hour	$15
   Variable Overhead	2 machine hours	$12 per machine hour	$24
   Fixed Overhead	2 machine hours	$15 per machine hour	$30

   Actual costs for the most recent period, during which 5,000 units of output were actually produced and used 9,600 machine hours, are given below:

   Direct Materials	The firm purchased 16,000 feet at $6.30 per foot, but only used 14,500 feet in production.
   Direct Labor	The firm used 7,150 direct labor hours and paid $11 per direct labor hour.
   Variable Overhead	Actual variable overhead costs were $122,880.
   Fixed Overhead	Actual fixed overhead costs were $142,000.

   What was the company’s fixed overhead volume variance?

   	A.	$9,000 favorable
   	B.	$9,000 unfavorable
   	C.	$15,000 unfavorable
   	D.	$15,000 favorable

2. A&B Co. provides house cleaning services. The company uses the number of jobs to measure activity. At the beginning of April, the company budgeted for 80 jobs, but the actual number of jobs turned out to be 90. A report comparing the budgeted revenues and costs to the actual revenues and costs appears below:

   A&B Co.
   For the Month Ended April 30
   		Revenue/Cost Formulas	Actual Results	Planning Budget
   Number of jobs (Q)			90	80
   Revenue		$100Q	8,900	8,000
   Expenses:
   	Variable expenses	?	3,800	3,200
   	Fixed expense	?	2,100	2,500
   Total expenses			5,900	5,700
   Net operating income			3,000	2,300

   What is the amount of revenue variance in A&B’s performance report for April?

   	A.	$900 favorable
   	B.	$900 unfavorable
   	C.	$100 unfavorable
   	D.	$100 favorable

3. Alice Supply Corporation manufactures and sells cotton gauze for $2 a box. Expected sales of gauze (in boxes) for upcoming months are as follows:

   	# of boxes
   August....................	60,000
   September..............	75,000
   October..................	100,000

   Management likes to maintain a finished goods inventory equal to 25% of the next month's estimated sales.What is the company's budgeted production in boxes for September?

   	A.	71,250 boxes
   	B.	63,750 boxes
   	C.	81,250 boxes
   	D.	75,000 boxes

4. YZ Co.’s balanced scorecard lists performance measures that belong to the following four perspectives: financial, customer, internal business processes, and learning and growth. Which of the following pairs does NOT belong to the same perspective?

   	A.	Customer satisfaction and number of customer complaints
   	B.	Hours of in-house training per employee and employee turnover
   	C.	Throughput time and manufacturing cycle efficiency
   	D.	Residual income and market share

YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Do a search for "Uncle Tom's Cabin Synopsis"

1. What was/were the purpose(s) of this book?

2. Summarize the story.

3. What was the impact of this book?

4. What were reactions to this novel - - both in the North and in the South.

One term, "He is an Uncle Tom" was much-used in Martin Luther King's day - - what does this term mean to modern black people?

If you can find this information: This "book" did not appear as a book. What was the "marketing approach" to selling copies of Stowe's efforts?

An oil refinery is located 1 km north of the north bank of a straight river that is 2 km wide. A pipeline is to be constructed from the refinery to storage tanks located on the south bank of the river 9 km east of the refinery. The cost of laying pipe is $200,000 per km over land to a point P on the north bank and $400,000 per km under the river to the tanks. To minimize the cost of the pipeline, how far downriver from the refinery should the point P be located? (Round the answer to two decimal places.)
km

QUESTION 14

1. Kim is a 56 year old woman from South Korea heart disease.  

   Would type of culturally appropriate dietary recommendations would you make (be specific).  

QUESTION 15

1. Stavros is an 80 year old man from Greece.  He is unhappy with the food offered in the nursing home and is not eating well.  

   What foods could you offer him that might be culturally appropriate.  Please make up a day’s menu based on his preferences and what could be available in a nursing home setting.  

Using supply and demand diagrams, show the effect of the following events on the market for sweatshirts.

A hurricane in South Carolina damages the cotton crop.

The price of leather jackets falls.

All colleges require morning exercise in appropriate attire.

New knitting machines are invented.

Each original post should include four diagrams with an explanation for each. Respond and engage with at least two of your classmates. NOTE: diagrams can be created using a MS Office product, or drawn by hand and submitted as an image, or some other product of the student's choice.

As defined by economic historian Douglass North,” institutions are the rules of the game in a society or, more formally, are the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction.”

Does the role of institutions or geography offer a more plausible explanation of cross-country differences in economic growth? Explain with reference to the work of Daron Acemoglu.

How does the institution hypothesis explain the difference, in terms of economic growth, between North and South Korea?

How is Gross Domestic Product (GDP) calculated using expenditure-based accounting (3 points)

I need proper answers for the following ( well explained and understandable writing)

1. A long, vertical, metallic wire carries downward electric current. (i) What is the direction of the magnetic field it creates at a point 2 cm horizontally east of the center of the wire? Why?

(a) north

(b) south

(c) east

(d) west

(e) up

2. One pole of a magnet attracts a nail. Will the other pole of the magnet attract the nail? Explain. Also explain how a magnet sticks to a refrigerator door.

Suppose that it takes an average Australian miner 10 hours to mine a ton of coal and 20 hours to mine a ton of manganese. It takes the average South African miner 4 hours to mine a ton of coal and 12 hours to mine a ton of manganese.

a) For each miner, calculate the opportunity cost of mining a ton of coal and a ton of manganese.

b) In what task does each miner have a comparative advantage? Briefly explain.

c) Which resource will each country import? How about export?