Scenario 2.5 A Job Consists of Three Distinct Work Elements That Were

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Scenario 2.5
A job consists of three distinct work elements that were timed with a highly accurate Swiss watch by a trained industrial engineer wearing a pristine white lab jacket and carrying an official-looking clipboard.Worker ratings were less inflated by the newness of the job elements to the worker than by the overall nervousness of the worker.The engineer recorded ten observations and assigned the performance rating that is recorded in the bottom row of the table under the corresponding work element.All recorded times are in seconds.

-Use the data in Scenario 2.5 to answer this question.If the allowance factor is 15%,what is the average time for Element 1?

• A)15.1 seconds
• B)16.61 seconds
• C)19.1 seconds
• D)14.44 seconds

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