The Following Information Relates to a Company's Aggregate Production Planning

question 52

Multiple Choice

The following information relates to a company's aggregate production planning activities: Beginning Workforce = 125 workers
Production per Employee = 500 units per quarter
Hiring Cost = $750 per worker
Firing Cost = $1,500 per worker
Inventory Carrying Cost = $10 per unit per quarter
If a chase demand strategy is used the number of workers fired in quarter 3 is

• A)0.
• B)40.
• C)50.
• D)75.

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Definitions:

Significance Level

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true, commonly denoted as alpha (α).

One-Way ANOVA

A statistical test used to compare the means of three or more independent groups to determine if there is a significant difference among them, based on one independent variable.

F Statistic

A statistical measure that determines the ratio of variance between groups to variance within groups in the context of ANOVA tests.

Significance Level

The threshold below which a p-value is considered statistically significant, often set at 0.05 or 5%.