In a Recent Report to the Supply-Chain Manager in a Major

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In a recent report to the supply-chain manager in a major electronics company, the report writer stated that with 90 percent confidence, the manufacturing lead time for a critical part is between 3.34 hours and 4.14 hours. Based on this, the sample mean that generated the confidence interval was 3.60.

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