Which of the Four Major Categories of Quality Costs Is

question 7

Multiple Choice

Which of the four major categories of quality costs is particularly hard to quantify?

• A) prevention costs
• B) appraisal costs
• C) internal failure costs
• D) external failure costs
• E) None is hard to quantify.

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Definitions:

Peptide

Short chains of amino acid monomers linked by peptide (amide) bonds, playing crucial roles in biological functions.

α-Carbon

The carbon atom directly attached to a functional group in an organic molecule.

Racemic Mixtures

A mixture containing equal amounts of two enantiomers of a compound, making it optically inactive due to the canceling effect of the two forms' rotation of plane-polarized light.

Achiral

A term describing an object or molecule that is superposable on its mirror image; not chiral.