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:

Pounds

A unit of weight commonly used in the British imperial and United States customary measurement systems.

Direct Materials Price Variance

The difference between the actual cost of direct materials used in production and the expected (or standard) cost of those materials.

Per-unit Standards

Benchmarks or norms for the cost or quantity of materials, labor, and overhead required to produce one unit of product, used for budgeting and performance evaluation.

Gallons

Gallons are a measure of volume used primarily in the United States, equivalent to 3.785 liters.