SCENARIO 3-14-B
You Are the Quality Control Manager of a Water

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SCENARIO 3-14-B
You are the quality control manager of a water bottles company. One of the biggest complaints in the
past years has been the breakage and, hence, the concern on the durability of the connector between
the lid and the bottle which many users use as a handle for the bottles. To collect evidence before
implementing any modification to the production process, your department has subjected 100 water
bottles to a durability test and the following data on the number of times the handles have been used
to lift the bottles before they break are contained in the file Scenario3-14-DataB.XLSX. $$\begin{array} { l l l l l l l l l l } 493 & 506 & 515 & 491 & 500 & 505 & 517 & 510 & 506 & 503 \\503 & 491 & 495 & 496 & 496 & 505 & 493 & 486 & 504 & 483 \\514 & 494 & 497 & 501 & 493 & 490 & 510 & 494 & 494 & 495 \\494 & 486 & 495 & 506 & 506 & 507 & 502 & 498 & 510 & 501 \\500 & 505 & 492 & 486 & 501 & 496 & 501 & 521 & 510 & 498\end{array}$$
-Referring to Scenario 3-14-B, the most number of times the handles have been used to lift the
bottles before they break in this sample is ________.

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Definitions:

Average Total Cost

The per-unit cost of production, calculated by dividing the total cost of production by the number of units produced, including both fixed and variable costs.

Demand Schedule

A table that shows the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity demanded at each price level.

Demand Curve

A graph showing the relationship between the price of a good or service and the quantity demanded by consumers.

Monopolistically Competitive

Pertaining to a market scenario where firms engage in monopolistic competition, each firm has some control over its price because its product is different from those of its competitors.