Data-Based Business Decisions Answers

You are the manager of a clothing store. You must decide how many of your employees to put on the sales floor, and how many to put on the register. Because employees on the sales floor cause customers to buy more products, if you do not have at least 2 employees on the register for every 5 employees working on the sales floor, your registers will get very clogged and you will lose business. You have a total of 84 employees, and you wish to have as many on the sales floor as possible. How should you divide your employees?a.44 on the sales floor, 40 on the registerb.55 on the sales floor, 29 on the registerc.60 on the sales floor, 24 on the registerd.75 on the sales floor, 9 on the register

Jake has decided to give a bonus to the employee who has worked the greatest total number of hours over the past six months. Four candidates are currently up for consideration. The following graph shows how many hours each one has worked over the past six months. To which employee will Jake give the bonus? a. Vince b. Claire c. Joey d. Katharine Please select the best answer from the choices provided

Natasha is a regional manager for a chain of supermarkets. She has been tasked with researching the weekly sales records of two branch locations over the past month, which she must present to her board of directors. She was able to assemble the relevant information in the table below, but it is scrambled and hard to read. Sales are listed in thousands of dollars. Week 4 1 1 3 4 2 3 2 Sales 16.3 17.8 23.1 15.2 20.2 23.4 22.9 17.6 Branch North South North South South North North South In order to make the data more readable, Natasha has decided to put it into a graph. Which of the following graphs accurately matches the information in the table? I. II. III. IV. a. I b. II c. III d. IV Please select the best answer from the choices provided

Matt has four orange trees, one at each corner of his yard (northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest). The following graph shows the fruit production of each tree over the course of several years. Which tree had the greatest number of increases in output from year to year? a. northeast b. northwest c. southeast d. southwest Please select the best answer from the choices provided

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Matt has four orange trees, one at each corner of his yard (northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest). The following graph shows the fruit production of each tree over the course of several years. Which tree had the greatest number of increases in output from year to year? a. northeast b. northwest c. southeast d. southwest Please select the best answer from the choices provided

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The following graph shows the sales records of four employees over a period of six months. Which employee experienced the single greatest decline in sales between two months? a. Mary b. Lewis c. Todd d. Paige Please select the best answer from the choices provided

Tony is the staff manager of a movie theater, and he is trying to decide which shifts should have the greatest number of employees on staff. Over the course of a week, Tony recorded how many customers appeared during each shift, the results of which can be seen in the graph below. Tony wants the distribution of his employees to match the distribution of the customers. If Tony has 230 total employees, how many should he assign to the 1:00 p.m. shift? a. 15 b. 20 c. 68 d. 156 Please select the best answer from the choices provided

Which of the following is not a way Ian Dicker claims a Business Intelligence Dashboard will help you to make good business decisions?a.allowing five different methods with which to monitor your businessb.increasing data-sampling rate, providing more data points for analysisc.offering a central point by which the organization or team can monitor progressd.reducing decision-making time by viewing the business progress visually rather than numerically