Which of the Following Is True of a Bottleneck

question 99

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true of a bottleneck?

• A) It occurs in an operation when the work to be performed approaches or exceeds the capacity available to do it.
• B) It occurs in an operation when there is excess capacity to complete the work given.
• C) It is the uncertainty about when customers will order products or services.
• D) It is the time taken by a manufacturing department to produce a finished product.

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Definitions:

Measures of Center

Quantitative measures that describe the central tendency of a data set, including mean, median, and mode.

Measures of Variability

Statistical indicators that describe the spread or dispersion within a dataset, such as range, variance, and standard deviation.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability in a set of data points, representing the average distance from the mean.

Variance

A metric that quantifies the spread of data points, by calculating the mean of squared variations from the central value.