Which of the following statements is false? a. like typical large us companies, apple uses about 60% debt in its capital structure. b. in a chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation, employees and trade creditors have lower priority amongclaimants than senior and secured lenders. c. in a bankruptcy reorganization, middle managers or 'white collar' employees lose their jobsmore commonly than production workers or 'blue collar' employees. d. following a chapter 11 filing a few years earlier and failed attempts to negotiate concessionswith its unions, hostess again in 2012 filed for bankruptcy with the intent to liquidate its assets

Which of the following is false regarding the links between jit and quality? a. jit increases the cost of obtaining good quality. b. as quality improves, fewer inventory buffers are needed; in turn, jit performs better. c. jit reduces the number of potential sources of error by shrinking queues and lead times. d. inventory hides bad quality; jit immediately exposes it. e. if consistent quality exists, jit allows firms to reduce all costs associated with inventory.

At a small store, a customer enters the front door on average every 8 minutes. a prior study indicated that the time between customers entering the front door during weekdays follows an exponential distribution. what is the probability that the time between customers entering the store on a weekday will be less than or equal to 7? select one: a. 62 b. 43 c. 1/8 d. 7/8 e. 58

Richardson hired j. c. flood company, a plumbing contractor, to correct a stoppage in the sewer line of her house. the plumbing company's 'snake' device, used to clear the line leading to the main sewer, became caught in the underground line. to release it, the company excavated a portion of the sewer line in richardson's backyard. in the process, the company discovered numerous leaks in a rusty, defective water pipe that ran parallel with the sewer line. to meet public regulations, the water pipe, of a type no longer approved for such service, had to be replaced either then or later, when the yard would have to be excavated again. the plumbing company proceeded to repair the water pipe. though richardson inspected the company's work daily and did not express any objection to the extra work involved in replacing the water pipe, she refused to pay any part of the total bill after the company completed the entire operation. j. c. flood company then sued richardson for the costs of labor and material it had furnished. (c) for what, if anything, should richardson be liable? explain."