At a Large Automobile Factory,four Different Machines Are Used to Produce

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Multiple Choice

At a large automobile factory,four different machines are used to produce disc brakes.To make sure that the disc brakes are all being produced with comparable diameters,daily samples of 16 disc brakes are taken from the production lines of each of the four machines and their diameters measured.The deviation from the goal diameter of 322 micrometers is measured to the nearest micrometer.Assume that the distribution of these deviations is approximately Normal with a common standard deviation.Does it appear that disc brakes made on the four machines are made with equal mean diameters? SPSS output is included below. What is the value of the estimate of the common population standard deviation?

• A)9.97
• B)11.75
• C)34.17
• D)99.37

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