Supervisor Robert Hall wants to determine the percent of time a machine in his area is idle.

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Supervisor Robert Hall wants to determine the percent of time a machine in his area is idle. He decides to use work sampling, and his initial estimate is that the machine is idle 20% of the time. How many observations should Hall take to be 98% confident that the results will be less than 5% from the true results?


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Operations management

ISBN: 978-0132163927

10th edition

Authors: Jay Heizer, Barry Render

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