SCENARIO 12-10 One Criterion Used to Evaluate Employees in the Assembly Section

question 89

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 12-10
One criterion used to evaluate employees in the assembly section of a large factory is the number of defective pieces per 1,000 parts produced.The quality control department wants to find out whether there is a relationship between years of experience and defect rate.Since the job is repetitious,after the initial training period any improvement due to a learning effect might be offset by a loss of motivation.A defect rate is calculated for each worker in a yearly evaluation.The results for 100 workers are given in the table below.

-Referring to Scenario 12-10,what is the expected number of employees with 1 to 4 years of training time and a high defect rate?

• A)12.00
• B)8.64
• C)6.67
• D)6.00

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