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SCENARIO 12-10 One criterion used to evaluate employees in the assembly section of a large factory is the number of defective pieces per 1,000 parts produced.The quality control department wants to find out whether there is a relationship between years of experience and defect rate.Since the job is repetitious, after the initial training period any improvement due to a learning effect might be offset by a loss of motivation.A defect rate is calculated for each worker in a yearly evaluation. The results for 100 workers are given in the table below. SCENARIO 12-10 One criterion used to evaluate employees in the assembly section of a large factory is the number of defective pieces per 1,000 parts produced.The quality control department wants to find out whether there is a relationship between years of experience and defect rate.Since the job is repetitious, after the initial training period any improvement due to a learning effect might be offset by a loss of motivation.A defect rate is calculated for each worker in a yearly evaluation. The results for 100 workers are given in the table below.   -Referring to Scenario 12-10, find the rejection region necessary for testing at the 0.05 level of significance whether there is a relationship between defect rate and years of experience. A) Reject   6.919 B) Reject   15.507 C) Reject   11.143 D) Reject   488
-Referring to Scenario 12-10, find the rejection region necessary for testing at the 0.05 level of significance whether there is a relationship between defect rate and years of experience.


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