Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 2, Problem 2.162ACI
Time to develop price quotes. A manufacturer of industrial wheels is losing many profitable orders because of the long time it takes the firm's marketing, engineering, and accounting departments to develop price quotes for potential customers. To remedy this problem, the firm’s management would like to set guidelines for the length of time each department should spend developing price quotes. To help develop these guidelines, 50 requests for price quotes were randomly selected from the set of price quotes made last year: the processing time (in days) was determined for each price quote for each department. Several observations are displayed in the table below. The price quotes are also classified by whether or not they were “lost” (i.e., whether or not the customer placed an order after receiving the price quote).
- a. Construct a stem-and-leaf display for the total processing time for each department. Shade the leaves that correspond to “lost” orders in each of the displays, and interpret each of the displays.
- b. Using your results from part a, develop “maximum processing time” guidelines for each department that, if followed, will help the firm reduce the number of lost orders.
- c. Generate summary statistics for the processing times. Interpret the results.
- d. Calculate the z-score corresponding to the maximum processing time guideline you developed in part b for each department, and for the total processing time.
- e. Calculate the maximum processing time corresponding to a z-score of 3 for each of the departments. What percentage of the orders exceed these guidelines? How does this agree with Chebyshev’s Rule and the
Empirical Rule ? - f. Repeat parte using a z-score of 2.
- g. Compare the percentage of “lost” quotes with corresponding times that exceed at least one of the guidelines in part e to the same percentage using the guidelines in part f. Which set of guidelines would you recommend be adopted? Why?
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Reject H0. We conclude that the relationship between weekly usage (hours) and annual maintenance expense (in hundreds of dollars) is significant.
Do not reject H0. We conclude that the relationship between weekly usage (hours) and annual maintenance expense (in hundreds of dollars) is significant.
Reject H0. We cannot conclude that the relationship between weekly usage…
Jensen Tire & Auto is in the process of deciding whether to purchase a maintenance contract for its new computer wheel alignment and balancing machine. Managers feel that maintenance expense should be related to usage, and they collected the following information on weekly usage (hours) and annual maintenance expense (in hundreds of dollars).
Weekly Usage(hours)
AnnualMaintenance Expense
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between 0.05 and 0.10
greater than 0.10
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Do not conclude that there is a significant relationship between expense and weekly usage
Conclude that there is a significant relationship between expense and weekly usage
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