A Manufacturing Company Produces Part A732 for the Aerospace Industry

Multiple Choice

A manufacturing company produces part A732 for the aerospace industry.This particular part can be manufactured using 3 different production processes.The management wants to know if the quality of the units of part A732 is the same for all three processes.The production supervisor obtained the following data: Process 1 had 29 defective units in 240 items,Process 2 produced 12 defective units in 180 items,and Process 3 manufactured 9 defective units in 150 items.At a significance level of .05,we performed a chi-square test of independence to determine if the quality of the items produced appears to be independent of the production process.What are the degrees of freedom for the chi-square statistic?

A) 2
B) 3
C) 50
D) 520
E) 570