Torn Shirts Inc: Telephone Orders

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A challenging but well-guided activity, Torn Shirts has students analyze data to reach a decision on a business question. They first determine the probability that a customer calling to order a shirt gets a busy signal, then estimate the amount of money the company might lose when customers get a busy signal. Work with graphs and averages, especially the median, helps students reach a conclusion.

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Subject keyword(s)	Consumer mathematics, Critical thinking, Data analysis, Education, Mathematics, Mean, median, and mode, Probability, Process skills, Real world applications, Reasoning, Statistics
Grade level	Middle School, High School, Vocational/Professional Development Education
Intended audience	Educator
Resource type	Instructional Material
Resource format	text, text/html

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OR Topic: Simulation New to Bookstores Does This Line Ever Move? Everyday Applications of OR Buy it Today! Primary Objective: Analyze simulated data. Context: Analyze the results of a simulation to manage a telephone ordering system. Teaching Objectives: Calculate measures of central tendency, make and interpret histograms, analyze and manipulate tables of data, interpret data in a business context, and make decisions based on analysis of simulated data. Case Studies: AT&T | Burger King | American Red Cross | STDs: Kenya Please Note: The icons above link to PDF files and ZIP files. If you need a pdf reader, click here. If you need an unzip program, click here. Previous Next Website by: QuIC Solutions, Inc