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Which of the following was an French chemist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation of life?

Which of the following was an French chemist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation of life?

When preparing the patient for tracheostomy tube change, the RT should assist the patient into which position?

What should the RT allow for when securing the tracheostomy ties and tying the ends securely?

When suctioning your adult patient, the level of vacuum on the vacuum gauge should be set at: 

When suctioning your adult patient, the level of vacuum on the vacuum gauge should be set at: 

To allow adequate ventilation and oxygenation during suctioning, which action should the RT take?

A product’s demand in each period follows a normal distribution with mean of 60 and standard deviation of 10. The order-up-to level is 200 and the lead time is 2 periods. What is its stockout probability?

Zowee Airline plans to fly several daily flights from Madison to Los Angeles.  Based on historical data, the flight on Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving is always sold out.  However, there are usually no-shows so the airline wants to increase revenue by overbooking.  They estimate that the no-shows are normally distributed with a mean of 8 and a standard deviation of 2.83.  The airline feels that if they “get caught” overbooking, then the cost for bumping customers will be about ten times more than the low fare ticket price.  How many seats should the airline overbook?

Formulas Z = (Q – Mean) / STDEV C.R = Cu / (Cu + Co) I(Z) =NORM.DIST(Z,0,1,0)+Z*NORM.S.DIST(Z,1) Exponential Smoothing: y ̂(t+1) = (alpha × actual data + (1-alpha) × previous forecast