An Assembly Line Is Operating Satisfactorily If Fewer Than 2

question 31

Multiple Choice

An assembly line is operating satisfactorily if fewer than 2% of the phones produced per day are defective. To check the quality of a day's production, the company randomly samples 50 phones from a day's production to test for defects. Define the population of interest to the manufacturer.

• A) all the phones produced during the day in question
• B) the 50 phones sampled and tested
• C) the 50 responses: defective or not defective
• D) the 2% of the phones that are defective

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