Belkin co. provides medical care and insurance benefits to its retirees. in the current year, belkin agrees to contribute 5% of the employees’ $250,000 gross salaries to a retirement program. what is the amount of employee benefits expense for the current period?

Afactory makes propeller drive shafts for ships. a quality assurance engineer at the factory needs to estimate the true mean length of the shafts. she randomly selects four drive shafts made at the factory, measures their lengths, and finds their sample mean to be 1000 mm. the lengths are known to follow a normal distribution whose standard deviation is 2 mm. calculate a 95% confidence interval for the true mean length of the shafts. input your answers for the margin of error, lower bound, and upper bound.