Questions from General Business Management

Q: Ashley’s Department Store in Kansas City maintains a successful catalog sales department

Ashley’s Department Store in Kansas City maintains a successful catalog sales department in which a clerk takes orders by telephone. If the clerk is occupied on one line, incoming phone calls to the c...

Q: Automobiles arrive at the drive-through window at a post office

Automobiles arrive at the drive-through window at a post office at the rate of four every 10 minutes. The average service time is 2 minutes. The Poisson distribution is appropriate for the arrival rat...

Q: For the post office in Problem 12-17, a second

For the post office in Problem 12-17, a second drive through window is being considered. A single line would be formed, and as a car reached the front of the line it would go to the next available cle...

Q: What are the assumptions underlying common queuing models?

What are the assumptions underlying common queuing models?  

Q: Sid Davidson is the personnel director of Babson and Willcount, a

Sid Davidson is the personnel director of Babson and Willcount, a company that specializes in consulting and research. One of the training programs that Sid is considering for the middle-level manag...

Q: Shader Storage Technologies produces refrigeration units for food producers and retail food

Shader Storage Technologies produces refrigeration units for food producers and retail food establishments. The overall average temperature that these units maintain is 46° Fahrenheit. The avera...

Q: Trapeze Investments is a venture capital firm that is currently evaluating six

Trapeze Investments is a venture capital firm that is currently evaluating six different investment opportunities. There is not sufficient capital to invest in all of these, but more than one will b...

Q: The University of South Wisconsin has had steady enrollments over the past

The University of South Wisconsin has had steady enrollments over the past 5 years. The school has its own bookstore, called University Book Store, but there are also three private bookstores in tow...

Q: Jean Walker is making plans for spring break at the beaches in

Jean Walker is making plans for spring break at the beaches in Florida. In applying techniques she learned in her quantitative methods class, she has identified the activities that are necessary to...

Q: The following are the activity times for the project in Problem 11

The following are the activity times for the project in Problem 11-16. Find the earliest, latest, and slack times for each activity. Then find the critical path. ACTIVITY TIME (DAYS) A …&...