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

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SCENARIO 3-14-A
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-DataA.XLSX. $$\begin{array} { l l l l l l l l l l } 495 & 499 & 502 & 500 & 491 & 498 & 498 & 495 & 488 & 516 \\513 & 486 & 504 & 503 & 493 & 504 & 489 & 500 & 495 & 499 \\501 & 507 & 511 & 496 & 486 & 497 & 510 & 504 & 493 & 482 \\511 & 502 & 520 & 514 & 486 & 514 & 500 & 505 & 512 & 500 \\504 & 498 & 503 & 514 & 474 & 489 & 488 & 506 & 517 & 490\end{array}$$
-Referring to Scenario 3-14-A, is the number of times the handles have been used to lift the
bottles before they break in this sample lepokurtic or platykurtic?

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Definitions:

Activity-Based Costing

A costing method that assigns costs to products or services based on the activities and resources that go into their production.

Equipment Depreciation

The process of allocating the cost of tangible assets over its useful life, representing how much of the asset's value has been used up.

Supervisory Expense

Supervisory expense relates to the costs associated with the oversight and management of employees or production processes, often part of overhead costs.

Activity Rate

The predetermined rate used to allocate overhead costs to cost objects based on activities.