Consider the Following to Answer the Question(s) Below

question 21

Multiple Choice

Consider the following to answer the question(s) below:
An operations manager was interested in determining if there is a relationship between the amount of training received by production line workers and the time it takes for them to troubleshoot a process problem. A sample of recently trained line workers was selected. The number of hours of training time received and the time it took (in minutes) for them to troubleshoot their last process problem were captured. The data, scatterplot and regression results are shown below.

-At α = 0.05

• A) We reject the null hypothesis.
• B) We fail to reject the null hypothesis.
• C) We can conclude that there is a significant relationship between amount of training received by production line workers and the time it takes for them to troubleshoot a process problem.
• D) We reject the null hypothesis and can conclude that there is a significant relationship between amount of training received by production line workers and the time it takes for them to troubleshoot a process problem.
• E) We fail to reject the null hypothesis and can conclude that there is a significant relationship between amount of training received by production line workers and the time it takes for them to troubleshoot a process problem.

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