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A boy kicks a football with an initial velocity of 20 m/s at an angle of 25° above the horizontal. If we neglect air resistance, the magnitude of the acceleration of the ball while it is in flight is

(True/False). Trial and error can be used to determine the weights for a weighted moving average forecast. 

Continuing with Yellow Jacket Foods what will be the total inventory and purchase costs if then firm  goes with the new supplier?  This Problem Counts 3 Points  

  Concluding with the DooDad Integrated Supply Chain scenario. Rather than lowering its price to R, W instead offers to start a buyback program where W will pay R $1.20 for each unsold unit. Considering W’s $1.20 buyback plan, what is the new service optimal service level for the DooDad Integrated Supply Chain? This Problem Counts 3 Points

Yellow Jacket Foods most popular item is organic mustard. Demand is 600 jars a month. The firm’s  current vendor charges $3.00 a jar. Holding cost is $.35 per unit and it costs $100 to place an order for more jars. A new supplier (same order cost) has offered to sell the same item to Yellow Jacket Foods for $2.80 a jar if Buzz foods buys at least 3,000 jars each order. If Buzz wants to minimize annual inventory and product cost, what should Buzz Foods do? This Problem Counts 2 Points

Mr. Wing runs a local corner grocery which carries about 1500 consumer products – all typical household items like breakfast cereals, canned fruits, vegetables, soups, and meats, bar soaps and other bathroom products, and a limited assortment of soft drinks, bottled water, candy, and snacks — essentially many of the same products one would find in a convenience store. His store has been in the same location for decades and he knows many of his customers personally. The products he carries are characterized by high demand certainty, reasonably long shelve lives, low inventory costs, and low profit margins, Given Mr. Wings product assortment and business model, he would most likely need a ___________ supply chain model.

Continuing with Larry and the data presented in the previous question, what should be Larry’s initial daily order quantity? This Problem Counts 3 Points

Link to StatCrunch Calculate the measures of center of the following data:  (Give exact answers) 45      850      38      25     32      45      40      45 Mode = [mode] Mean = [mean] Median = [med] Which measure of center does not work well here?  (Enter the name of the measure of center – not its value)  [mn]  

Link to Example        Link to Video that Explains Example Listed are 29 ages for Academy Award winning best actors in order from smallest to largest. 18 21 22 25 26 27 29 30 31 33 36 37 41 42 47 52 55 57 58 62 64 67 69 71 72 73 74 76 77 Find the 60th percentile. (Round the one decimal place) [a] years old Find the 85th percentile. (Round the one decimal place) [b] years old

Which is not a way that supply chains try to reduce the impact the bullwhip effect?