Shown below is a partially completed mps record for ball bearings. a. develop the mps for ball bearings. (enter your responses as integers. a response of "0" is equivalent to being not applicable.) item: ball bearings order policy: 500 units lead time: 1 week quantity on hand: 400 week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 forecast 550 250 450 400 300 350 150 250 400 350 customer orders (booked) 300 350 250 200 250 100 100 50 50 150 projected on-hand inventory 350 0 50 150 350 0 350 100 200 350 mps quantity 500 0 500 500 500 0 500 0 500 500 mps start 0 500 500 500 0 500 0 500 500 0 available-to- promise (atp) inventory 250 0 250 300 150 0 350 0 450 350 b. four customer orders arrived in the following sequence: order quantity week desired 1 600 4 2 500 5 3 200 1 4 400 7

Stocks a, b, and c are similar in some respects: each has an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 25%. stocks a and b have returns that are independent of one another; i. e., their correlation coefficient, r, equals zero. stocks a and c have returns that are negatively correlated with one another; i. e., r is less than 0. portfolio ab is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half in stock b. portfolio ac is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half invested in stock c. which of the following statements is correct? a. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is greater than 25%.b. portfolio ac has an expected return that is less than 10%.c. portfolio ac has a standard deviation that is less than 25%.d. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is equal to 25%.e. portfolio ac has an expected return that is greater than 25%.