29. manufacturing company uses a chi-square goodness of fit test to determine if a population of...
A manufacturing company produces part 2205 for the aerospace industry. This particular part can be manufactured using 3 different production processes. The management wants to know if the quality of the units of part 2205 is the same for all three processes. The production supervisor obtained the following data: Process 1 had 29 defective units in 240 items, Process 2 produced 12 defective units in 180 items, and Process 3 manufactured 9 defective units in 150 items. At a significance...
5. Interpretation of a chi-square test for goodness of fit Suppose you are reading a study conducted in the year 2000 about welfare recipients in the United States. The study consisted of a random sample of 199 welfare recipients, and provides summary statistics about various demographic characteristics of the sample, indluding household size broken down into five categories (one, two, three, four, and five or more persons in the household). You wonder if welfare recipients tend to live in different-...
5. The chi-square test for goodness of fit - No difference from a known population Aa Aa Suppose you are reading a study conducted in the year 2000 about welfare recipients in the United States. The authors report the following frequency data on the household size of the 2,352 welfare recipients in their random sample: Observed Frequencies Household Size 5-or-more-person 4-person 3-person 2-person 1-person 282 753 588 400 329 You wonder if welfare recipients tend to live in different-sized households...
A distribution and the observed frequencies of the values of a variable from a simple random sample of the population are provided below. Use the chi-square goodness-of-fit test to decide, at the specified significance level, whether the distribution of the variable differs from the given distribution Distribution: 0.1875, 0.1875, Observed frequencies: 16, 20, 24, 36 Significance level 0.05 0.3125, 0.3125 Determine the null and alternative hypotheses. Choose the correct answer below. OA. H: The distribution of the variable differs from...
2. Goodness-of-fit tests Normal population Aa Aa Manufacturing processes, such as coin minting, are subject to small variations due to variations in materials, temperature, and humidity. The variations in materials, temperature, and humidity from their norms are just as likely to be positive as negative but are more likely to be small than large. Consider the 1 coin issued by Belgium. Realizing that there are small variations in the minting process and random error in the weighing process, it might...
Standard Costing: Planned Variances As part of its cost control program, Tracer Company uses a standard costing system for all manufactured items. The standard cost for each item is established at the beginning of the fiscal year, and the standards are not revised until the beginning of the next fiscal year. Changes in costs, caused during the year by changes in direct materials or direct labor inputs or by changes in the manufacturing process, are recognized as they occur by...
Statistical Significance for 2 x 2 Tables Graded Assignment | Read Chapter 13| Back to Assignment Due Friday 04.26.19 at 11:00 PM Keep the Highest: 0.2/1 Attempts: 0.2 2. Chi-square tests for tables larger than 2 x 2 Aa Aa The Chernobyl accident in Ukraine in 1986 is considered the worst nuclear plant disaster in history. Suppose you are a researcher conducting a study to determine whether the Chernobyl accident caused an increase in thyroid cancer among children in southern...
Pittsburgh Aluminum Company uses a process cost system to record the costs of manufacturing rolled aluminum, which consists of the smelting and rolling processes. Materials are entered from smelting at the beginning of the rolling process. The inventory of Work in Process—Rolling on September 1 and debits to the account during September were as follows: Bal., 800 units, 80% completed: Direct materials (800 x $4.6) $ 3,680 Conversion (800 x 80% x $1.9) 1,216 $ 4,896 From Smelting Department, 18,480...
Pittsburgh Aluminum Company uses a process cost system to record
the costs of manufacturing rolled aluminum, which consists of the
smelting and rolling processes. Materials are entered from smelting
at the beginning of the rolling process. The inventory of Work in
Process—Rolling on September 1 and debits to the account during
September were as follows:
Bal., 800 units, 30% completed:
Direct materials (800 x $ 3.8)
$ 3,040
Conversion (800 x 30% x $1.6)
384
$ 3,424
From Smelting Department,...
Exercise 2-37 Assigning Costs to a Cost Object, Direct and Indirect Costs Hummer Company uses manufacturing cells to produce its products (a cell is a manufacturing unit dedicated to the production of subassemblies or products). One manufacturing cell pro- duces small motors for lawn mowers. Suppose that the motor manufacturing cell is the cost object. Assume that all or a portion of the following costs must be assigned to the cell. a. Salary of cell supervisor b. Power to heat...