tors has been getting many complaints from its major customer, Home Station, about the quality of its shipments of home generators Daniel Shimshak, the plant manager, is alarmed that a customer is providing him with the only information the company has on shipment quality. He decide to collect information on defective shipments through a form he has asked his drivers to complete on arrival at customers' stores. The forms for the first 285 shipments have been turned in. They show the following over the past 8 weeks Week 12345678 No. of Shipments 21 29 32 37 35 42 43 46 No. of Shipments with Defects 8 10 12 12 12 14 15 17 This exercise contains only part a. a) Using the point drawing tool eight times, develop a scatter diagram using total number of shipments and number of defective shipments.

tors has been getting many complaints from its major customer, Home Station, about the quality of its shipments of home generators Daniel Shimshak, the plant manager, is alarmed that a customer is providing him with the only information the company has on shipment quality. He decide to collect information on defective shipments through a form he has asked his drivers to complete on arrival at customers' stores. The forms for the first 285 shipments have been turned in. They show the following over the past 8 weeks Week 12345678 No. of Shipments 21 29 32 37 35 42 43 46 No. of Shipments with Defects 8 10 12 12 12 14 15 17 This exercise contains only part a. a) Using the point drawing tool eight times, develop a scatter diagram using total number of shipments and number of defective shipments.

Practical Management Science

6th Edition

ISBN:9781337406659

Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Publisher:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Chapter2: Introduction To Spreadsheet Modeling

Section: Chapter Questions

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