The Good Food Chain Has a Contract to Receive Eggs

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Essay

The Good Food chain has a contract to receive eggs from a large egg producer. The eggs come in lots of 4,000 dozen each week. The contract specifies that the rate of broken or defective eggs should not exceed 8 percent. Each time a load comes in, Good Food warehouse employees select a random sample of n = 100 eggs and check to see if they are broken or defective. If Good Food wants no more than a 0.05 chance of rejecting the shipment, what should the cut-off be in terms of proportion of broken or defective eggs so that if the proportion is that value or more, the shipment will be rejected?

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Definitions:

Mere Exposure Effect

The mental effect where individuals start favoring items simply because they have become acquainted with them.

Balance Theory

A psychological theory suggesting that individuals strive for consistency and balance in their relationships and beliefs within a triad of entities (P-O-X model).

Attitudes

A learned tendency to evaluate things in a certain way, which can include evaluations of people, issues, objects, or events.

Subjective Norms

Individual beliefs about how people they care about will view their behavior in a given context.