Question: 2 ) The Pareto Chart. ( This exercise involves drawing two separate charts ) A contractor organization is concerned about the quality of its housing

2) The Pareto Chart. (This exercise involves drawing two separate charts)
A contractor organization is concerned about the quality of its housing construction and conducts a survey of its quality defects. The data collected are shown below
Item No. of defects $ Cost per defect
Doors1043.50
Ceiling977
Paint3239
Roof12120
Windows11347
Carpet2233
Plumbing837
a. Draw this chart by hand. You should be able to show people how to do that in the field where the trades involved may not have ready access to special software (and hardware)
b. You may repeat the drawing of the chart using Excel or the brighthub website shown under Section 3 below, but at least one chart should be drawn by hand.Please ensure that the finished document is in Word and that it can be opened
c. Special note: Do the analysis first based on the number of defects. Construct the matrix as discussed in the lecture (See below), then fill in the values required for the analysis.
d. Draw a Pareto chart based on the number of defects shown in the survey. Identify the categories that merit attention, based on the 80/20 rule.
e. Explain the actions that you would recommend, based on the chart.
f. Following that, draw a second Pareto chart, based on the combined cost of each defect. Hint: Multiply the number of occurrences of each defect by its corresponding cost.
g. Identify the categories that merit attention, based on the 80/20 rule.
h. Explain how drawing the second chart changes your decision-making and recommendation

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