Question:The mean length of time required to perform a certain assembly
line task at Joe’s Manufacturing...
Question
The mean length of time required to perform a certain assembly
line task at Joe’s Manufacturing...
The mean length of time required to perform a certain assembly
line task at Joe’s Manufacturing has been established to be 15.5
minutes, with a standard deviation of 3 minutes. A random sample of
9 employees is taught a new method. After a training period, the
average time these 9 employees take to perform the same task is
13.5 minutes. The plant manager would like to be at least 98% sure
before switching any more employees to the new, perhaps faster
method and consults you for advice. Do these results provide
sufficient evidence to indicate that the new method is faster than
the old? Use the critical value approach to develop and
test appropriate hypotheses concerning this situation. What would
you advise the manager under these circumstances?