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Problem-solving Case Study Comparison of Furniture-Store Sales |
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Problem: A new regional sales manager for the Chippendale Furniture Stores has just come into town. She wants to see a monthly, department-by-department comparison, in the form of bar graphs, of the two Chippendale stores in town. The daily sales for each department are kept in each store's accounting files. Data on each store are stored in the following form: |
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Department ID number
Number of business days for the department
Daily sales for day 1
Daily sales for day 2
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Daily sales for last day in period
Department ID number
Number of business days for the department
Daily sales for day 1
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The bar graph to be printed is of the following form: |
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Bar Graph Comparing Departments of Store#1 and Store#2
Store Sales in 1,000s of dollars
# 0 5 10 15 20 25
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Dept 1030
1 ***********************
Dept 1030
2 *****************************************
Dept 1210
1 ***********************************************
Dept 1210
2 *****************************************
Dept 2040
1 ********************************************
Dept 2040
2 ******************************** |
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