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

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SCENARIO 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-tail 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 Scenario 9-6,suppose the engineer had decided that the alternative hypothesis to test was that the mean was greater than 650.What would be the p-value of this one-tail test?

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

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Definitions:

Decreasing Output

A situation where a firm produces less output over time, often due to rising costs or decreased demand.

Always Decrease

A scenario where a variable or condition consistently declines over a period of time without increasing.

Marginal Cost

The cost associated with producing one additional unit of a product, emphasizing the incremental expense in production processes.

Additional Unit

The next unit of product or service that is being considered for production or consumption.