At a Local Manufacturing Plant, Employees Must Complete New Machine

question 16

Multiple Choice

At a local manufacturing plant, employees must complete new machine set ups within 30 minutes.New machine set-up times can be described by a normal model with a mean of 22 minutes and a standard deviation of four minutes.The typical worker needs five minutes to adjust to his or her surroundings before beginning duties.What percent of new machine set ups are completed within 25 minutes to allow for this?

• A)77.3%
• B)27.3%
• C)22.7%
• D)72.7%
• E)none of the above

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