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Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Harvey Company designs and produces surgical lasers. Its product is brilliantly designed, but the manufacturing process has been plagued by chronic quality control problems. To help address the situation, Harvey formed a crossfunctional team of managers that quantified its costs of quality over the last two quarters as follows: The company's sales were $95 million in Quarter 1 and $100 million in Quarter 2. 3. Refer back to the Template A tab: a. Create a PivotTable based on the data in cells A5 through H17. b. Using PivotChart, create a stacked bar chart that includes a total of two bars-one for each quarter. Each bar should quantify that quarter's total quality costs as well as the portion of those costs that fall within each of the four quality cost categories fie. prevention, appraisal, internal failure, and external failure). c. Using PivotChart again, create a stacked bar chart that includes a total of two bars-one for each quarter. Each bar should quantify that quarter's total quality costs as a percent of that quarter's sales. It should also depict each of the four quality cost categories (i.e., prevention, appraisal, internal failure, and external failure) as a percent of sales. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Using PivotChart, create a stacked bar chart that includes a total of two bars-one for each quarter. Each bar should quantify that quarter's total quality costs as well as the portion of those costs that fall within each of the four quality cost categories (i.e., prevention, appraisal, internal failure, and external failure). Based on a review of your bar chart, answer the following questions: (Enter your answers in thousands.) Using PivotChart again, create a stacked bar chart that includes a total of two bars-one for each quarter. Each bar should quantify that quarter's total quality costs as a percent of that quarter's sales. It should also depict each of the four quality cost categories (i.e., prevention, appraisal, internal failure, and external failure) as a percent of sales. Based on a review of your bar chart, answer the following questions: (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

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