Operations Management
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ISBN: 9781259667473
Author: William J Stevenson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 9, Problem 11P
The county sheriff’s department responded to an unusually large number of vehicular accidents along a quarter mile stretch of highway in recent months. Prepare a cause and-effect diagram for this problem.
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