You have now provided your company’s management with powerful tools that model the cost of production in the three factories. when you get an order for a certain number of units, you can be informed of the cost that would be incurred by each factory if chosen to fulfill the order. in reality, the decision must also consider many other factors, but in our scenario, we want to fill our orders at the lowest average cost per unit. consider each of the following questions as a separate, unrelated day of business. a. on monday, you have a single request: order a for 15,000 units. it must be fulfilled by a single factory. to which factory do you send the order? explain your decision. support your argument with numbers. (10 points) b. on tuesday, you have two orders. you may send each order to a separate factory or both to the same factory. if they are both sent to be fulfilled by a single factory, you must use the total of the two orders to find that factory’s cost per unit for production on this day. remember that the goal is to end the day with the lowest cost per unit to produce the company’s products. order b is 7,000 units, and order c is 30,000 units. (15 points, 5 points per part)

the results from a pre-test for students for the year 2000 and the year 2010 are illustrated in the box plot. what do these results tell us about how students performed on the 29 question pre-test for the two years?

if we compare only the lowest and highest scores between the two years, we might conclude that the students in 2010 did better than the students in 2010. this conclusion seems to follow since the lowest score of 8 in 2010 is greater in value than the lowest score of 6 in 2000. also, the highest score of 28 in 2010 is greater in value than the highest score of 27 in 2000.

but the box portion of the illustration gives us more detailed information. the middle bar in each box shows us that the median score of 20 in 2000 is greater in value than the median score of 17 in 2010. further, we note that the box and whiskers divide the illustration into four pieces. each of these four pieces represents the same portion of students. so, the upper half of the students in 2000 scored in the same score range as the upper one-fourth of the students in 2010, see the illustration at a score of 20.

by considering the upper one-fourth, upper half, and upper three-fourths instead of just the lowest and highest scores, we would conclude that the students as a whole did much better in 2000 than in 2010. we would conclude that as a whole the students in 2010 are less prepared than the students in 2000.

in this section, we discuss box-and-whisker plots and the five key values used in constructing a box-and-whisker plot. the key values are called a five-number summary, which consists of the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.

step-by-step explanation:

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the answer will be d: 2