TABLE 9-6 The Quality Control Engineer for a Furniture Manufacturer Is Interested

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TABLE 9-6
The quality control engineer for a furniture manufacturer is interested in the mean amount of force necessary to produce cracks in stressed oak furniture. She performs a two-tailed test of the null hypothesis that the mean for the stressed oak furniture is 650. The calculated value of the Z test statistic is a positive number that leads to a p-value of 0.080 for the test.
-Referring to Table 9-6, suppose the engineer had decided that the alternative hypothesis to test was that the mean was less than 650. What would be the p-value of this one-tailed test?

• A) 0.040
• B) 0.840
• C) 0.160
• D) 0.960

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Definitions:

Units Sold

The total quantity of product items that a company has sold to consumers during a certain period.

Indirect Manufacturing Cost

Costs in the production process that are not directly tied to the physical production of goods, such as maintenance and utilities.

Units Produced

The total quantity of finished goods manufactured by a company during a specific period.

Incremental Manufacturing Cost

The additional costs incurred when manufacturing one additional unit of a product, essential for decision-making in production and pricing.