You Work in the Air Filter Manufacturing Business

question 91

Multiple Choice

You work in the air filter manufacturing business. Your division is made up of three other people with very different biographical characteristics. Gina is 27 years old, single and female. She has been with the company only six months. Jonathan is 63 years old and a widower who has been with the company for thirty years. Sally is a single mother with four children who has been with the company for five years.
-Based on the information given, which employee would you expect to have the lowest rate of avoidable absence?

• A) All these employees would have about the same rate of avoidable absence.
• B) Sally
• C) Gina
• D) Jonathan
• E) Gina and Sally would probably have equally low rates

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Definitions:

Process Variables

Variables that are measured, monitored, or controlled during a process to ensure optimal quality or performance.

Sample Means

The average value of a set of sample data, used to estimate the population mean.

Standard Deviation

An index of how much individual observations of a dataset vary from the dataset's mean.

Lower Control Limit

The lowest boundary of acceptable performance in a statistical quality control chart, below which a process is considered out of control.