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1. I. One college student read seven books. II. The college median is equal to the high school median. III. The mean is greater than the median in both groups. I, II, and III The table on the left shows the joint probability distribution between two random variables - X and Y; and the table on the right shows the joint probability distribution between two random variables - A and B. Which of the following statements are true? I. X and Y are independent random variables II. A and B are independent random variables

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How many different outcomes can occur when a coin is flipped 4 times? 16 In one state, 52% of the voters are Republicans, and 48% are Democrats. In a second state, 47% of the voters are Republicans, and 53% are Democrats. Suppose a simple random sample of 100 voters is surveyed from each state. What is the probability that the survey will show a greater percentage of Republican voters in the second state than in the first state? 0.24 Each year, a national achievement test is administered to 3rd graders. The test has a mean score of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. If Jane's z-score is 1.20, what was her score on the test? 118

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12. Suppose X and Y are independent random variables. The variance of X is equal to 16; and the variance of Y is equal to 9. Let Z = X - Y. What is the standard deviation of Z? 5 13. The table at the right shows the joint probability distribution between two random variables - X and Y. (In a joint probability distribution table, numbers in the cells of the table represent the probability that particular values of X and Y occur together.) What is the mean of the sum of X and Y?

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4.7 8. Five-card stud is a poker game, in which a player is dealt 5 cards from an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards. How many distinct poker hands could be dealt? 2598960 How many different ways can you arrange the letters X, Y, and Z? 6 14. A batch of computer chips includes two that are defective and four that are acceptable. If two of these chips are randomly selected without replacement, find the probability that both are defective. 0.067 15. A coin is tossed three times. What is the probability that it lands on heads exactly one time? 0.375 16. Suppose we randomly select 5 cards without replacement from an ordinary deck of playing cards. What is the probability of getting exactly 2 red cards (i.e., hearts or diamonds)? 0.32513 17. What is the probability that 4 or more adults reside at a randomly selected home? 0.1. 18. A weatherman records the high temperature in Norfolk, Va. for each of the first 7 days of the year. The temperatures (in degrees Fahrenheit) are 51, 49, 41, 53, 54, 68, 48. Over that time

I only 3. The four major golf tournaments are the Master's, PGA, U.S. Open, and British Open. The dotplot below shows how many of these tournaments Tiger Woods won in the first decade of his professional career. Which of the following statements is true? 9.

10. In a recent little league softball game, each player went to bat 4 times. The number of hits made by each player is described by the following probability distribution. What is the mean of the probability distribution?

The distribution is left-skewed. 4. An urn contains 6 red marbles and 4 black marbles. Two marbles are drawn without replacement from the urn. What is the probability that both of the marbles are black? 2/15

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period, which of the following statements is true? I. The mean is 51 II. The mean is 52 III. The median is 53 IV. The median is 54 II only 19. The dotplot below shows the number of televisions owned by each family on a city block. Which of the following statements is true?

analysis period, the output is measured with random sampling on 50 consecutive days, and the mean output is found to be 871 tons/day. With a 95 percent confidence level, determine if the plant is operating properly. There is at least 95 percent probability that the plant is not operating properly. 23. Suppose a die is tossed 5 times. What is the probability of getting exactly 2 fours? 0.16 24. The required probability that a two-stage rocket will perform successfully is 0.97. The reliability for the first stage is 0.99. The reliabilities of the two stages are independent. What must be the reliability for the second stage? 0.98

the probability of selecting a man or someone ticketed for speeding. 0.8621 28. A public opinion survey explored the relationship between age and support for increasing the minimum wage. The results are summarized in the two-way table to the right. In the 21 to 40 age group, what percentage supports increasing the minimum wage?

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The Acme Battery Company has developed a new cell phone battery. On average, the battery lasts 60 minutes on a single charge. The standard deviation is 4 minutes. Suppose the manufacturing department runs a quality control test. They randomly select 7 batteries. The standard deviation of the selected batteries is 6 minutes. What would be the chi-square statistic represented by this test? 13.5

The median is about 10. 26. Consider the boxplot below.

21. Four friends take an IQ test. Their scores are 96, 100, 106, 114. Which of the following statements is true? I. The mean II. The mean III. The median IV. The median is 106. II only 22. When it is operating properly, a chemical plant has a daily production rate that is normally distributed wuth a mean of 880 tons/day and a standard deviation of 21 tons/day. During an is is is 103 104. 100

Which of the following statements are true? I. The distribution is skewed right II. The interquartile range is about 8 III. The median is about 10 II only 27. In a survey of randomly selected adults, 150 were ticketed for over speeding and 140 others received illegal parking tickets. Of this group, nobody received both a speeding ticket and a parking ticket. The men received 100 of the speeding tickets and 90 of the parking tickets. If one of these adults is randomly selected, find

30. The average salary for an employee at Acme Corporation is $30,000 per year, with a variance of 4,000,000. This year, management awards the following bonuses to every employee; 1. A Christmas bonus of $500, 2. An incentive bonus equal to 10 percent of the employee's salary. What is the standard deviation of employee bonuses? 200 31. The stemplot below shows the golf scores in a recent amateur tournament.

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I and II 32. Twenty tickets are numbered 1 to 20 and one of them is drawn at random. What is the probability that the number drawn is a multiple of 3 or 5? 0.45 33. For boys, the average number of absences in the first grade is 15 with a standard deviation of 7; for girls, the average number of absences is 10 with a standard deviation of 6. In a nationwide survey, suppose 100 boys and 50 girls are sampled. What is the probability that the male sample will have at most three more days of absences than the female sample? 0.035 34. The odds that a new product will succeed are estimated as being 5:3. Find the probability that the product will succeed. 0.625 35. The average salary for an employee at Acme Corporation is $30,000 per year. This year, management awards the following bonuses to every employee. A Christmas bonus of $500. An incentive bonus equal to 10 percent of the employee's salary. What is the mean bonus received by employees? 3500 36. The four major golf tournaments are the Master's, PGA, U.S. Open, and British Open. The dotplot below shows how many of these tournaments Tiger Woods won in the first decade of his professional career. Which of the following statements is true?

0.89 37. The probability that a student is accepted to a prestigious college is 0.3. If 5 students from the same school apply, what is the probability that at most 2 are accepted? 0.84 38. Which of the following is a discrete random variable? I. The average height of a randomly selected group of boys II. The annual number of sweepstakes winners from New York City III. The number of presidential elections in the 20th century II only 39. A bag contains 10 red balls, 30 white balls, 20 black balls and 15 yellow balls. If two balls are drawn, replacement being made after each drawing, find the probability that only one is a red ball. 0.2311 40. The probability of getting a credit in an examination is 0.30. If three students are selected at random, what is the probability that at least one of them got a credit? 0.657 41. A business man has 4 dress shirts and 7 ties. How many different shirt/tie outfits can he create? 28 42. A urn contains 6 red marbles and 4 black marbles. Two marbles are drawn with replacement from the urn. What is the probability that both of the marbles are black? 4/25 43. Every year, 50000 runners compete in the Peachtree Road Race. They run 10 kilometers (a little over 6 miles). The average finishing time is 55 minutes, with a standard deviation of 10

minutes. Fred and Wilma completed the race in 61 and 51 minutes, respectively. Barney and Betty had finishing times with z-scores of -0.3 and 0.7, respectively. List the runners in order, starting with the fastest runner and ending with the slowest runner. Wilma, Barney, Fred, Betty 44. In horse racing, a trifecta is a type of bet. To win a trifecta bet, you need to specify the horses that finish in the top three spots in the exact order in which they finish. If eight horses enter the race, how many different ways can they finish in the top three spots? 336 45. Molly earned a score of 940 on a national achievement test. The mean test score was 850 with a standard deviation of 100. What proportion students had a higher score than Molly? 0.18 46. The number of adults living in homes on a randomly selected city block is described by the following probability distribution. What is the standard deviation of the probability distribution?

0.89 47. Bob is a high school basketball player. He is a 70% free throw shooter. That means his probability of making a free throw is 0.70. What is the probability that Bob makes his first free throw on his fifth shot? 0.00567 48. In state lottery, first prize is won if a player selects six-number combination when six different numbers from 1 to 51 are drawn. If a player selects one particular six- number combination, find his probability of winning the first prize. -8 5.5 x 10

49. Find the probability of throwing 11 each time in 3 tosses of two dice. -4 1.71 x 10 50. A card is drawn randomly from a deck of ordinary playing cards. You win $10 if the card is a spade or an ace. What is the probability that you will win the game? 4/13 51. Marie is getting married tomorrow, at an outdoor ceremony in the desert. In recent years, it has rained only 5 days each year. Unfortunately, the weatherman has predicted rain for tomorrow. When it actually rains, the weatherman correctly forecasts rain 90% of the time. When it doesnt rain, he incorrectly forecasts rain 10% of the time. What is the probability that it will rain on the day of Maries wedding? 0.11 52. There are 50 tickets in a lottery in which there is a first prize and a second prize. What is the probability of a man drawing a prize if he owns 5 tickets? 0.1837 53. There are three candidates A, B and C for mayor of a certain town. If the odds that A will win are 7:5 and those of B are 1:3, what is the probability that candidate C will win? 0.17 54. The stem plot below shows the number of hot dogs eaten by contestants in a recent hot dog eating contest

Which of the following statements are true? I. The range is 70 II. The median is 46 I and II 55. How many different ways can you select 2 letters from the set of letters: X, Y, and Z? 3 5. 56. A student goes to the library. The probability that she checks out (a) a work of fiction is 0.40, (b) a work of non-fiction is 0.30, and (c) both fiction and non-fiction is 0.20. What is the probability that the student checks out a work of fiction, non-fiction, or both? 0.5 57. What is the probability of obtaining 45 or fewer heads in 100 tosses of a coin? 0.18

that you applied for a loan with a bank and the P80,000 was approved at an interest of 14% of which P11,200 was deducted and you were given a check of P68,800. Since you have to pay the amount of P80,000 one year after, what then will be the effective interest rate? 0.1628 A steel mill estimates that one of its furnaces will require maintenance P20,000 at the end of 2 years, P40,000 at the end of 4 years and P80,000 at the end of 8 years. What uniform semi-annual amounts could it set aside over the next eight years at the end of each period to meet these requirements of maintenance cost if all funs would earn interest at the rate of 6% compounded semi-annually? P7,897.35 The initial investment to buy an equipment of a proposed project to increase productivity is $25,000 and this equipment will have a salvage value of $5,000 at the end of its expected life of 5 years. Increased productivity attributed to the equipment will amount to $8,000 per 5 year after extra operating costs have been subtracted from the value of the additional production. If MARR (Minimum Attractive Rate of Return) is 20%, compute the Present Worth Method (PW) using the six (6) methods for making Economy Studies. 934.29 The initial investment to buy an equipment of a proposed project to increase productivity is $25,000 and this equipment will have a salvage value of $5,000 at the end of its expected life of 5 years. Increased productivity attributed to the equipment will amount to $8,000 per 5 year after extra operating costs have been subtracted from the value of the additional production. If MARR (Minimum Attractive Rate of Return) is 20%, compute the Annual Worth Method (AW) using the six (6) methods for making Economy Studies. 312

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ENGINEERING ECONOMY (5)

1. You need P4,000 per year for four years to go to college. Your father invested P5,000 in 7% account for your education when you were born. If you withdraw P4,000 at the end of 17th, 18th, and 20th birthday, how much will be left in the account at the end of the 21st year? P1,700.00 As labor productivity increases, which of the following shifts in the labor market should result, ceteris paribus? Demand for labor should shift to the right. Automobile workers in Detroit who are unemployed because of imports of foreign automobiles at the same time that job vacancies exist for coal miners in West Virginia would most likely be classified as: Structurally unemployed It is the practice of almost all banks in the Philippines that when they grant a loan, the interest for one year is automatically deducted from the principal amount upon release of money to a borrower. Let us therefore assume

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A fixed capital investment of $10M and an estimated working capital of $2M is required for a proposed manufacturing plant. Annual depreciation is estimated to be 10% of the fixed capital. Determine the Minimum Payback Period if the annual profit is $2.5M 4.8 years Suppose a supply disruption causes oil prices to rise, which leads to a recession in the United States, and many Americans lose their jobs. Which of the following types of unemployment would develop in the U.S economy? Cyclical unemployment

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value of $5,000 at the end of its expected life of 5 years. Increased productivity attributed to the equipment will amount to $8,000 per 5 year after extra operating costs have been subtracted from the value of the additional production. If MARR (Minimum Attractive Rate of Return) is 20%, compute the External Rate of Return Method (ERR) using the six (6) methods for making Economy Studies. 0.2083 14. A contractor has a job which should be completed in 100 days. At present he has 80 men on the job and estimated that they will finish the work in 130 days. Of the 80 men; 50 are paid at $12 a day, 25 at $18 a day and 5 at $25 a day. For each day beyond the original 100 days, the contractor has to pay $250 liquidated damages. What is the "total wages" if 80 men will do the job? $152,750 15. The initial investment to buy an equipment of a proposed project to increase productivity is $25,000 and this equipment will have a salvage value of $5,000 at the end of its expected life of 5 years. Increased productivity attributed to the equipment will amount to $8,000 per 5 year after extra operating costs have been subtracted from the value of the additional production. If MARR (Minimum Attractive Rate of Return) is 20%, compute the Future Worth Method (FW) using the six (6) methods for making Economy Studies. 2324.8 16. An emission charge: Increases private marginal cost and thus induces lower output 17. Given an annual usage of 8,000 units, unit commodity cost $2, cost of placing an order of $5, and annual inventory carrying cost of 30% of the average inventory; 22 lots 18. A contractor has a job which should be completed in 100 days. At present he has 80 men on the job and estimated that they will finish the work in 130 days. Of the 80 men; 50

are paid at $12 a day, 25 at $18 a day and 5 at $25 a day. For each day beyond the original 100 days, the contractor has to pay $250 liquidated damages. What is the amount of the liquidated damages? $7500 19. A fixed capital investment of $10M and an estimated working capital of $2M is required for a proposed manufacturing plant. Annual depreciation is estimated to be 10% of the fixed capital. Determine the Annual Rate of Return on Total Investment 0.125 20. A company must relocate one of its factories in three years. Equipment for the loading duck is being considered for purchase. The original cost is P20,000, the salvage value after three years is P8,000. The company's rate of return (i) on money is 10%. Determine the capital recovery rate per year. P5,625.38 21. When there are positive externalities from the consumption of a good, the government should: Subsidize consumption 22. A fixed capital investment of $10M and an estimated working capital of $2M is required for a proposed manufacturing plant. Annual depreciation is estimated to be 10% of the fixed capital. Determine the Net Annual Profit. $1.5M 23. Machine cost = $15,000; Life = 8 years; Salvage Value = $3,000. What minimum cash return would the investor demand annually from the operation of this machine if he desires interest annually at the rate of 8% on his investment and accumulates a capital replacement fund by investing annual deposits at 5%? 2456.66 24. Governments usually build highways because it is difficult to exclude people who dont pay for the highways from using those highways. What type of market failure is most likely involved? Public goods

10. The initial investment to buy an equipment of a proposed project to increase productivity is $25,000 and this equipment will have a salvage value of $5,000 at the end of its expected life of 5 years. Increased productivity attributed to the equipment will amount to $8,000 per 5 year after extra operating costs have been subtracted from the value of the additional production. If MARR (Minimum Attractive Rate of Return) is 20%, compute the Internal Rate of Return Method (IRR) using the six (6) basic methods for making Economy Studies. 0.2168 11. Which of the following should increase during the expansion phase of the business cycle? Real GDP 12. The initial investment to buy an equipment of a proposed project to increase productivity is $25,000 and this equipment will have a salvage value of $5,000 at the end of its expected life of 5 years. Increased productivity attributed to the equipment will amount to $8,000 per 5 year after extra operating costs have been subtracted from the value of the additional production. If MARR (Minimum Attractive Rate of Return) is 20%, compute the Explicit Reinvestment Rate of Return (ERRR) using the six (6) methods for making Economy Studies. 0.2125 13. The initial investment to buy an equipment of a proposed project to increase productivity is$25,000 and this equipment will have a salvage

25. A fixed capital investment of $10M and an estimated working capital of $2M is required for a proposed manufacturing plant. Annual depreciation is estimated to be 10% of the fixed capital. Determine the Capital Investment. $12M

Determine the probability that the system is empty. 0.25 6. Homer, the owner of a car wash franchise intends to construct another car wash in a suburban location. Based on experience, the owner estimates that the arrival rate for the proposed facility will be 20 cars per hour and the service rate will be 25 cars per hour. Service rate will be variable because all cars are washed by hand rather than by machine. Cars will be processed one at a time. The average number of cars waiting in the system is 3.2 cars. Assume Poisson distribution of arrivals. Determine the number of servers 1 Homer, the owner of a car wash franchise intends to construct another car wash in a suburban location. Based on experience, the owner estimates that the arrival rate for the proposed facility will be 20 cars per hour and the service rate will be 25 cars per hour. Service rate will be variable because all cars are washed by hand rather than by machine. Cars will be processed one at a time. The average number of cars waiting in the system is 3.2 cars. Assume Poisson distribution of arrivals. Determine the average number of cars being washed. 0.80 cars How many customers are allowed in the system? 50 The mean arrival rate of customers at a ticket counter with one server is 3 per minute, and the mean service rate is 4 customers per minute. Determine the average time a customer waits to be served. 0.75 min

OPERATIONS RESEARCH (5)

1. Homer, the owner of a car wash franchise intends to construct another car wash in a suburban location. Based on experience, the owner estimates that the arrival rate for the proposed facility will be 20 cars per hour and the service rate will be 25 cars per hour. Service rate will be variable because all cars are washed by hand rather than by machine. Cars will be processed one at a time. The average number of cars waiting in the system is 3.2 cars. Assume Poisson distribution of arrivals. Determine the average time a car waits to get washed. 9.6 minutes If each server can only accommodate one customer at a time and could only allow 5 customers to queue at any time, what is the number of active servers if there are 50 customers in the system? 9 The mean arrival rate of customers at a ticket counter with one server is 3 per minute, and the mean service rate is 4 customers per minute. Determine the probability that there are two customers in the system. 0.1406 If each server can only accommodate one customer at a time and could only allow 5 customers to queue at any time, what is the number of idle servers if there are 22 customers in the system? 6 The mean arrival rate of customers at a ticket counter with one server is 3 per minute, and the mean service rate is 4 customers per minute. 8.

11. Homer, the owner of a car wash franchise intends to construct another car wash in a suburban location. Based on experience, the owner estimates that the arrival rate for the proposed facility will be 20 cars per hour and the service rate will be 25 cars per hour. Service rate will be variable because all cars are washed by hand rather than by machine. Cars will be processed one at a time. The average number of cars waiting in the system is 3.2 cars. Assume Poisson distribution of arrivals. Determine the arrival rate. 20 cars per hour 12. Homer, the owner of a car wash franchise intends to construct another car wash in a suburban location. Based on experience, the owner estimates that the arrival rate for the proposed facility will be 20 cars per hour and the service rate will be 25 cars per hour. Service rate will be variable because all cars are washed by hand rather than by machine. Cars will be processed one at a time. The average number of cars waiting in the system is 3.2 cars. Assume Poisson distribution of arrivals. Determine the average number of cars in the system. 4 13. The mean arrival rate of customers at a ticket counter with one server is 3 per minute, and the mean service rate is 4 customers per minute. Determine the System utilization 0.75

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although there is an incentive plan that offers a bonus for every 100 lineal ft above 110% of standard in a shift. The shift allowance has been changed from 12 % to 16 %, so the bonus threshold rate must be revised from its current 158,400 lineal ft per shift. For best results, the new bonus threshold rate (in lineal ft per shift) should be set most nearly to 137,000 5. Hint: Personal allowance = 9; no of occurrence a = 1; b = 2; c = 1 What is the total check time? 2.1 You would like to develop a cell for manufacturing drill bits, and you are given the following operations in sequence, with times per bit. The takt time for a requirement of 720 drill bits per hour is most nearly: 0.083 minutes You are in charge of building a two bedroom wood-frame house and are going to develop a single chart for showing the construction operations to the teams that are working on the electrical wiring , the interior walls, the exterior walls, the ceiling and the plumbing. Of the following chart types, the most appropriate is: An operational process chart You are the industrial engineer at 250-employee plant in Phoenix, AZ. Give your answers to the following questions that may arise in the course of your work. A three person team is systematically revising the plant's operating procedure manuals. Each manual is a 30-page document. They appear to be on a 90 percent learning curve, and the 50th manual took 10 manhours to prepare. For the total manhours to prepare the 20 remaining manuals, the accepted methodology gives an estimate of most nearly. 194 manhours 8. A work sampling study consisted of 400 observations with the result shown below. Assume an overall allowance of 15%. The study covered a period of 10 hour during which 30 assemblies were completed. Determine the normal time for each element ( fill in the table). Then determine the standard time for one

assembly and the accuracy of this study for working time.

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A work sampling study consisted of 400 observations with the result shown below. Assume an overall allowance of 15%. The study covered a period of 10 hour during which 30 assemblies were completed. Determine the normal time for each element ( fill in the table). Then determine the standard time for one assembly and the accuracy of this study for working time.

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10. If the only decided to make these bits on two identical cells, with one press feeding both cells, and with the inspection machine processing the output from bothc cells, the number of the fulte grinders in each cell would be most nearly: 2 11. You are the industrial engineer at 250-employee plant in Phoenix, AZ. Give your answers to the following questions that may arise in the course of your work. Assuming that the data for the forgoing question represent standard times after 15 percent shift allowances, the standard and normal times for prepration of the 51st document are, respectively, 9.97 and 8.47 hours 12. You are the industrial engineer at 250-employee plant in Phoenix, AZ. Give your answers to the following questions that may arise in the course of your work. Your harsh-environment workers work two 16-hr days per week and are off the rest of the week. Female workers complain of weigh gain on the site diet. The nutritionist says they are receiving 3000 kcal daily. If their average level of activity

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What is the limit of accuracy of this study? 0.0247 4. You are the industrial engineer at 250-employee plant in Phoenix, AZ. Give your answers to the following questions that may arise in the course of your work. Aluminum edging stock used as train in finishing operation easily loses its new look . A winnowing operation for this stock has a standard production quota of 5 lineal ft pre sec, or 144, 000 lineal ft. per shift. Actual average production has been only slightly greater than standard,

during the 16-hr double shift is enough to burn 0.8 watts per kilogram of body weight over basal metabolism, and they eat and exercise similarly on their off days, the equilibrium body weight of female workers should be most nearly 80 kg 13. Data from an 8-hour work sampling study are shown below. What is the idle % time for an unbalanced line? 38.9 18. Data from an 8-hour work sampling study are shown below.

following questions that may arise in the course of your work. Outdoor plant workers wait for personnel carriers in sun/rain shelters having 18"-high benches . The shelters are to have horizontal slits to allow seated workers to see carrier coming. The top and bottom dimensions appropriate for the slit, measured from the floor of the shelter, are most nearly 130 and 112 cm 22. The total number of machines needed to make 720 drill bits per hour is most nearly; Nine machines 23. You are the industrial engineer at 250-employee plant in Phoenix, AZ. Give your answers to the following questions that may arise in the course of your work. An envelope-stuffing task consists of picking up an envelope with the nonfavored hand, picking up a pre-folded piece of paper with the favored hand, lifting the flap of the envelope with the thumb of the hand that holds it, slipping the paper into the envelope, swiping the flap across a moist sponge, closing the flap, sealing it by passing it between thumb anf fingers while applying pressure, and putting it on the completed work-staked. All elements except closing the flap require hand or hand-eye adjustment. The layput is very convenient; all movement are within 6 inches of the center of work. The normal time for this task should be most nearly 6.5 sec 24. "You are the industrial engineer at 250employee plant in Phoenix, AZ. Give your answers to the following questions that may arise in the course of your work." The lab purchases supplies in cartoons typically 16" ling, 12" wide and 10" high. Occasionally lab employees must lift a cartoon from the floor to a 31 high tabletop. The maximum that a carton should weigh is most nearly 20 lb

What % of the time is the machine running? 0.54 14. What is the idle % time for the balanced line? What is the limit of accuracy of this study? 0.138 19. You are the industrial engineer at 250-employee plant in Phoenix, AZ. Give your answers to the following questions that may arise in the course of your work. 0.083 15. Data from an 8-hour work sampling study are shown below. Suppose it were decided on the basis of multiple considerations that 10 kg was the greatest appropriate carton weoght for the cartons in the foregoing problem. The lab receives mainly cartons os glassware and cartons of liquid chemicals. Lab employees could appropriately handle cartons containing. Glassware but not liquids 20. The Shimano Bike Co. assigns Jane Smith to assemble a batch of 100 10-speed cassette hubs. Based on a MTM-2 analysis, the IE calculate the standard time of 10 minutes for the assembly of one hub and based on previous hub assemblies estimate an 85 % learning curve. It takes Jane 25 minutes to assemble her first hub. What is the algebraic equation for the learning curve? y = 25 x -0.2345 21. You are the industrial engineer at 250-employee plant in Phoenix, AZ. Give your answers to the

What is the 95% confidence interval of the machine running? 5413.8% 16. Develop an MTM-2 analysis for the following bolt and 3 -washer assembly(insert figures below). Including only the fixed allowances, what is the standard time for this operation? 0.105 17. Answer the following questions base on this precedence diagram and operator times (in minutes)

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29. Develop an MTM-2 analysis for the following bolt and 3 -washer assembly(insert figures below). Which principles of motion economy are violated? Both hands active simultaneously 30. You are the industrial engineer at 250-employee plant in Phoenix, AZ. Give your answers to the following questions that may arise in the course of your work. You must specify the letter height for all caps warning signs intended for crane operators to read from 500 ft away. The applicable code merely says "easily legible.: The 11-point type you are reading now, capital letters about 0.11" high, is easily legible from 12" away. On this basis, the letter height for the warning signs should be mostly nearly 22

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The following noise exposures were recorded for J. Smith at ABBA, Inc. over his 8-hr work day: 1.5 hours in the press area at 95 dBA 3 hours in machining at 90 dBA 0.5 hour lunch at 60 dBA 1 hour in grinding at 92 dBA 2 hours in assembly at 90 dBA Is the exposure acceptable according to OSHA? What is the dose exposure? 1.166

Hint: Personal allowance = 9; no of occurrence a = 1; b = 2; c = 1 What is the total record time? 7 26. In building the framing for an interior wall for a two bedroom house, the most appropriate chart type of the following is: a flow process chart and an operation process chart. 27. Data from an 8-hour work sampling study are shown below.

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1. Each sewing machine produces noise of 70 dBA. What is the maximum number of such machines that can be put together in a room for the combined noise level to be tolerable for 8 hours? 100 machines Many techniques developed for manufacturing industries can also be used for service industries. Consider sanitation workers who collect garbage bags left at the curbside for 8 hours a day. In a typical 2-person team, one worker drives the truck, while the other walks the street, picking up the bags and dumping them into the truck (the lip of which is 50 inches from the ground). Typically the worker lines up the bag, picks it up by the tied top, twists 90o to lift it above the lip and then drops it in. The height of the bag is 18 inches and the horizontal location of the load is 16 inches. Assume one garbage bag per household (with a limit of 20 lbs to protect the workers), a distance of 70 feet between properties, and a walking speed of 3 mph (1 mile = 5280 feet). (INSERT IMAGE 1).56) The recommended weight limit (RWL) is 7.95

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Many techniques developed for manufacturing industries can also be used for service industries. Consider sanitation workers who collect garbage bags left at the curbside for 8 hours a day. In a typical 2-person team, one worker drives the truck, while the other walks the street, picking up the bags and dumping them into the truck (the lip of which is 50 inches from the ground). Typically the worker lines up the bag, picks it up by the tied top, twists 90o to lift it above the lip and then drops it in. The height of the bag is 18 inches and the horizontal location of the load is 16 inches. Assume one garbage bag per household (with a limit of 20 lbs to protect the workers), a distance of 70 feet between properties, and a walking speed of 3 mph (1 mile = 5280 feet).(INSERT IMAGE 1).The value of the horizontal multiplier when the load to be lifted is about 25 cm. in front of the operator 1 Accuweather is considering hiring Bill as a new weather forecast. However, they would like to compare his forecasting skill with their veteran Bob. The following results were obtained during the month of November: Bob correctly picked 10 out 15 rainy days, and 13 out of 15 non-rainy days. Bill correctly picked 11 out of 15 rainy days, and 11 out of 15 non-rainy days. Which forecaster is more conservative? Why? Bob

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Accuweather is considering hiring Bill as a new weather forecast. However, they would like to compare his forecasting skill with their veteran Bob. The following results were obtained during the month of November: Bob correctly picked 10 out 15 rainy days, and 13 out of 15 non-rainy days. Bill correctly picked 11 out of 15 rainy days, and 11 out of 15 non-rainy days. Which forecaster is the most accurate? Why? Be specific with the numbers. Bob decrease errors Per NIOSH, a lifting activity carried out for 30 minutes should be followed by a rest period or light activity of ___ minutes. 36 Joe Schmoe lifts 30 lb bar stock (10" in diameter) from the floor to a jig 40" from the floor. Assume that the standard time for the operation is 0.5 min. and the operator works a full 8-hr shift. An OSHA inspector visits the plant and is ready to cite the company. What is the % reduction in low back compressive force from your design? 0.6

10. Accuweather is considering hiring Bill as a new weather forecast. However, they would like to compare his forecasting skill with their veteran Bob. The following results were obtained during the month of November: Bob correctly picked 10 out 15 rainy days, and 13 out of 15 non-rainy days. Bill correctly picked 11 out of 15 rainy days, and 11 out of 15 non-rainy days. What is Bob's false alarm rate? 0.133 11. A worker is to lift a basket with a circular cross section having a diameter of 20 inches . Handles are placed at opposite ends of the circles diameter. Determine the least possible H for this lifting activity 18 inches 12. Many techniques developed for manufacturing industries can also be used for service industries. Consider sanitation workers who collect garbage bags left at the curbside for 8 hours a day. In a typical 2-person team, one worker drives the truck, while the other walks the street, picking up the bags and dumping them into the truck (the lip of which is 50 inches from the ground). Typically the worker lines up the bag, picks it up by the tied top, twists 90o to lift it above the lip and then drops it in. The height of the bag is 18 inches and the horizontal location of the load is 16 inches. Assume one garbage bag per household (with a limit of 20 lbs to protect the workers), a distance of 70 feet between properties, and a walking speed of 3 mph (1 mile = 5280 feet).(INSERT IMAGE 1).The speed of the worker doing the job in ft per minute is: 264 13. The computed noise dose in a workplace is 219.455%. What is the equivalent TWA 95.67 dBA 14. The following noise exposures were recorded for J. Smith at ABBA, Inc. over his 8-hr work day: 1.5 hours in the press area at 95 dBA 3 hours in machining at 90 dBA 0.5 hour lunch at 60 dBA

1 hour in grinding at 92 dBA 2 hours in assembly at 90 dBA Is the exposure acceptable according to OSHA? What is the resultanttime-weighted average noise for the 8-hr day? 91.1 dBA 15. You as the IE are being asked to design an addition (separate room) to the existing production facility. This room woll hold several identical milling machines and several identical grinders. The current best model milling machine produce 86 dBA noise, while one grinder produce 89 dBA noise. Each hour of milling requires and additional half-hour of grinding to finish off the piece and each piece is done in batch processing, i.e. in sequence. Management wants to maximize production (i.e. put in as many machines as possible) while maintaining complaince with OSHA noise standards. Howeve, they do not want to require workers to use earplugs. Assume that 0.5 hours of the 8 hour day are spent at lunch in a quiet area. Find the best number of milling machines and grinders so as to maximize production and maintain OSHA compliance. 2 Mills, 2 Grinders 16. Accuweather is considering hiring Bill as a new weather forecast. However, they would like to compare his forecasting skill with their veteran Bob. The following results were obtained during the month of November: Bob correctly picked 10 out 15 rainy days, and 13 out of 15 non-rainy days. Bill correctly picked 11 out of 15 rainy days, and 11 out of 15 non-rainy days. Which forecaster has the better hit rate (correctly forecasting rain)? Give value: Bill, .733 17. Joe Schmoe lifts 30 lb bar stock (10" in diameter) from the floor to a jig 40" from the floor. Assume that the standard time for the operation is 0.5 min. and the operator works a full 8-hr shift. An OSHA inspector visits the plant and is ready to cite the company.

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You as the IE are being asked to design an addition (separate room) to the existing production facility. This room woll hold several identical milling machines and several identical grinders. The current best model milling machine produce 86 dBA noise, while one grinder produce 89 dBA noise. Each hour of milling requires and additional half-hour of grinding to finish off the piece and each piece is done in batch processing, i.e. in sequence. Management wants to maximize production (i.e. put in as many machines as possible) while maintaining complaince with OSHA noise standards. Howeve, they do not want to require workers to use earplugs. Assume that 0.5 hours of the 8 hour day are spent at lunch in a quiet area. What is the resulting time-weight average noise? 89.7

Is the inspector justified in his/her actions? Support or refute the inspector's claim. 2.5 18. Accuweather is considering hiring Bill as a new weather forecast. However, they would like to compare his forecasting skill with their veteran Bob. The following results were obtained during the month of November: Bob correctly picked 10 out 15 rainy days, and 13 out of 15 non-rainy days. Bill correctly picked 11 out of 15 rainy days, and 11 out of 15 non-rainy days. What is d' for Bill? 1.246 19. A manufacturing operation is to be accomplished using 2 machines: X and Y. For a perfect balance, the ratio of machine X to Y in a production line is 2:3. Machines X and Y produce sound at levels of 75 dBA and 65 dBA, respectively. How much noise is produced by a well-balanced line? 78.6 dBA 20. What is the contrast created by black text (reflectance = 10%) on light green paper (reflectance = 52%)? 0.81 21. Many techniques developed for manufacturing industries can also be used for service industries. Consider sanitation workers who collect garbage bags left at the curbside for 8 hours a day. In a typical 2-person team, one worker drives the truck, while the other walks the street, picking up the bags and dumping them into the truck (the lip of which is 50 inches from the ground). Typically the worker lines up the bag, picks it up by the tied top, twists 90o to lift it above the lip and then drops it in. The height of the bag is 18 inches and the horizontal location of the load is 16 inches. Assume one garbage bag per household (with a limit of 20 lbs to protect the workers), a distance of 70 feet between properties, and a walking speed of 3 mph (1 mile = 5280 feet). (INSERT IMAGE 1).57) The lifting index (LI) is 2.51

22. Many techniques developed for manufacturing industries can also be used for service industries. Consider sanitation workers who collect garbage bags left at the curbside for 8 hours a day. In a typical 2-person team, one worker drives the truck, while the other walks the street, picking up the bags and dumping them into the truck (the lip of which is 50 inches from the ground). Typically the worker lines up the bag, picks it up by the tied top, twists 90o to lift it above the lip and then drops it in. The height of the bag is 18 inches and the horizontal location of the load is 16 inches. Assume one garbage bag per household (with a limit of 20 lbs to protect the workers), a distance of 70 feet between properties, and a walking speed of 3 mph (1 mile = 5280 feet). (INSERT IMAGE 1). The horizontal multiflier is 0.625 23. You are intalling lighting for the reading of books and newspapers in the living area of a senior citizens' home. The room have a drab paint scheme (reflectance 25%). How much of a reduction in the intensity can be obtained if the lamp is lowered 1 foot? 55.6 24. Many techniques developed for manufacturing industries can also be used for service industries. Consider sanitation workers who collect garbage bags left at the curbside for 8 hours a day. In a typical 2-person team, one worker drives the truck, while the other walks the street, picking up the bags and dumping them into the truck (the lip of which is 50 inches from the ground). Typically the worker lines up the bag, picks it up by the tied top, twists 90o to lift it above the lip and then drops it in. The height of the bag is 18 inches and the horizontal location of the load is 16 inches. Assume one garbage bag per household (with a limit of 20 lbs to protect the workers), a distance of 70 feet between properties, and a walking speed of 3 mph (1 mile = 5280 feet).(INSERT IMAGE 1) The distance multiplier is 0.856

25. You are intalling lighting for the reading of books and newspapers in the living area of a senior citizens' home. The room have a drab paint scheme (reflectance 25%). Assume that you will use the typical tungsten light bulb (similar to apoint source of light). What should be intensity of the light source if it will be placed 3 feet above the reading area? 900 cd 26. You are intalling lighting for the reading of books and newspapers in the living area of a senior citizens' home. The room have a drab paint scheme (reflectance 25%). What is the recommended level of illumination? 100 f.c. 27. Many techniques developed for manufacturing industries can also be used for service industries. Consider sanitation workers who collect garbage bags left at the curbside for 8 hours a day. In a typical 2-person team, one worker drives the truck, while the other walks the street, picking up the bags and dumping them into the truck (the lip of which is 50 inches from the ground). Typically the worker lines up the bag, picks it up by the tied top, twists 90o to lift it above the lip and then drops it in. The height of the bag is 18 inches and the horizontal location of the load is 16 inches. Assume one garbage bag per household (with a limit of 20 lbs to protect the workers), a distance of 70 feet between properties, and a walking speed of 3 mph (1 mile = 5280 feet).(INSERT IMAGE 1) The frequency multiplier is 0.45