The Manager of a Local Fast-Food Restaurant Is Interested in Improving

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Essay

The manager of a local fast-food restaurant is interested in improving service provided to customers who use the restaurant's drive-up window. As a first step in the process, the manager asks his assistant to record the time (in minutes) it takes to serve a large number of customers at the final window in the facility's drive-up system. The given frame in this case is 200 customer service times observed during the busiest hour of the day for this fast-food restaurant. The frame of 200 service times yielded a mean of 0.881. A simple random sample of 10 from this frame is presented below.
-(A) What sample size would be required for the production personnel to be approximately 95% sure that their estimate of the average number of defective batteries per box is within 0.3 unit of the true mean? Assume that the best estimate of the population standard deviation ( ) is 0.9 defective batteries per box.
(B) How does your answer to (A) change if the production personnel want their estimate to be within 0.5 unit of the actual population mean? Evaluate the tradeoff between required accuracy and sample size requirement for this case and the case in (A).

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