At a Local Manufacturing Plant, Employees Must Complete New Machine

question 6

Multiple Choice

At a local manufacturing plant, employees must complete new machine set ups within 30 minutes.New machine set-up times can be described by a normal model with a mean of 22
Minutes and a standard deviation of four minutes.The typical worker needs five minutes to
Adjust to his or her surroundings before beginning duties.What percent of new machine set
Ups are completed within 25 minutes to allow for this?

• A)77.3%
• B)27.3%
• C)22.7%
• D)72.7%
• E)none of the above

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