The ezee office furniture company makes high quality desks and chairs for executive offices. the company is about to make a radical change in its production process. it will take measurements from customers, have them select from a variety of fabric patterns and answer some basic questions about the furniture styles they like, then design a chair and desk that is ergonomically designed for maximum comfort for its users. the new method ezee office will use is an example of:

An allergy products superstore buys 6000 of their most popular model of air filters each year. the price of the air filters is $18. the cost of ordering and receiving shipments is $12 per order. accounting estimates annual carrying costs are 20% of the price. the supplier lead time is 2 days. the store operates 240 days per year. each order is received from the supplier in a single delivery. there are no quantity discounts. what is the store’s minimum total annual cost of placing orders & carrying inventory?

Emerson has an associate degree. based on the bar chart below, how will his employment opportunities change from 2008 to 2018

The wall street journal reported that over a recent five-month period, a downturn in the economy has caused endowments to decline 23%. what is the estimate of the dollar amount of the decline in the total endowments held by these 10 universities (to the nearest billion)?