Prior to Installing a JIT System, Grindstone Company Used Machine

question 20

Multiple Choice

Prior to installing a JIT system, Grindstone Company used machine hours to assign maintenance costs to its three products of 4-inch, 6-inch, and 9-inch insulation. The maintenance costs totaled $432,000 per year. The machine hours used by each product and the quantity produced of each product are as follows: After installing JIT, three manufacturing cells were created and the cell workers were trained to perform maintenance. Maintenance costs for the three cells still totaled $432,000; however, these costs are now traceable to each cell.
The maintenance cost per roll of 4-inch insulation before JIT is installed would be

• A) $11.25.
• B) $6.00.
• C) $7.75.
• D) $3.00.

Discuss the concept of multiple intelligences and its implications.

Differentiate between convergent and divergent thinking.

Understand the significance of standardization and reliability in psychological testing.

Identify the characteristics and importance of emotional and practical intelligence.

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Definitions:

Observational Learning

The process of acquiring knowledge and skills by observing and imitating others.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, encouraging the subject to associate certain behaviors with consequences.

Classical Conditioning

A learning strategy in which two stimuli are continually paired; the response that is initially attracted by the second stimulus is in time attracted by the first stimulus alone.

Observational Learning

The act of acquiring behaviors through observation and replication of others.