A Manufacturer of Cellular Phones Has Decided That an Assembly

question 77

Multiple Choice

A manufacturer of cellular phones has decided that an assembly line is operating satisfactorily if less than 0.0 2% of the phones produced per day are defective. To check the quality of a day s production, the company decides to randomly sample 40 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 40 phones sampled and tested
• C) the 40 responses: defective or not defective
• D) the 0.02% of the phones that are defective

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