SCENARIO 12-10 One Criterion Used to Evaluate Employees in the Assembly

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 12-10 One criterion used to evaluate employees in the assembly section of a large factory is the number of defective pieces per 1,000 parts produced.The quality control department wants to find out whether there is a relationship between years of experience and defect rate.Since the job is repetitious, after the initial training period any improvement due to a learning effect might be offset by a loss of motivation.A defect rate is calculated for each worker in a yearly evaluation. The results for 100 workers are given in the table below.
-Referring to Scenario 12-10, for the cell with 1 to 4 years of training time and a high defect rate, what is the contribution to the overall statistic for the independence test?

A) 0.36
B) 0.1296
C) 0.015
D) 0.0144