Wintersport ltd. contacted millionaire inc. to offer advertising, production, and printing services for millionaire’s magazine, opulence. wintersport and millionaire entered into a $170,000 contract for the printing of one monthly issue in october 2000. they performed that contract and launched negotiations to print the next month’s issue. strong, senior vice president of millionaire. com, and leiter, president of wintersport, handled most of the negotiations and communications. due to financial difficulties, millionaire reduced the size of its order for the second issue and requested payment terms on the reduced price of $80,000. concerned about millionaire’s creditworthiness, leiter told strong that wintersport would extend credit to millionaire only if millionaire paid a $10,000 down payment and millionaire’s ceo (white) personally guaranteed the balance due. during a phone call between their respective offices in washington and south carolina, leiter requested and received white’s oral agreement to the personal guaranty. leiter then sent a confirming fax to white’s office, and white express mailed to wintersport a $10,000 check drawn on millionaire’s account. when millionaire failed to pay the amount due on the contract, wintersport filed suit against white and others. white argued that the action should have been dismissed because the statute of frauds prevented the enforcement of his oral guaranty. was he correct?

Imagine us is a startup that offers high definition 3d prenatal ultrasounds for high-end customers. the service process includes four activities that are conducted in the sequence described below. (the time required for each activity is shown in parentheses): activity 1: welcome a patient and explain the procedure. (20 minutes)activity 2: prep the patient (e. g., show them to the room, apply ultrasound gel). (17 minutes) (*your id number represents the amount of time needed to complete this task)activity 3: take images. (5 minutes)activity 4: discuss diagnostic with patient. (20 minutes)at each location there are employees (servers) s1, s2, and s3. the assignment of tasks to servers is the following: s1 does activities 1 and 2.s2 does activity 3.s3 does activity 4.a. what is the capacity of this process (in customers per hour)? b. suppose 3 patients arrive every hour on average. ignoring any “start of day” or “end of day” effects, what are the utilizations of all three servers (%)? c. suppose each activity can be done by any server and any server can do any set of activities. however, each activity is done by only one server. for example, a possible assignment includes: s1 does activity 1, s2 does activity 2, and s3 does activities 3 and 4. of course, the original assignment of servers to activities is also feasible. what is the maximum capacity of the process (in customers per hour)? d. now consider the capacity measures in (c) and (a), what is the percentage change? why can you improve capacity without using additional resources? (there is no free lunch, right? )note: for all hw assignments, show your process of getting the results. only providing the final answers is not acceptable and will get 0%. if necessary, use a separate sheet of paper to show your work.