A High School Football Coach Decides to Use the Time

question 94

Multiple Choice

A high school football coach decides to use the time taken to run up 100 stairs as a test for running endurance. He tests every team member on three consecutive days and finds that the times for each person are very much the same on all three trials. His test for endurance appears to have good

• A) validity.
• B) generalizability.
• C) reliability.
• D) All of these.

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Definitions:

Single Plantwide Overhead Rate

A cost allocation method that applies the same overhead rate to all products, regardless of the department where they were produced or the amount of overhead they actually incurred.

Machine Hours

A metric used to allocate manufacturing overhead costs to individual products based on the number of hours the machines are run to produce them.

Fabrication Department

A division or unit within a manufacturing firm dedicated to the assembly or production of goods, where raw materials are transformed into finished products.

Multiple Department Rate System

An accounting system used to allocate indirect costs to individual departments based on varying rates, reflecting the different resource usage in each department.