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The Deming or Shewhart cycle is best described as:

a. plan to increase the amount of inprocess quality assurance inspection stations in domestic manufacturing

b. orderly approach to continuous improvement efforts

c. periodic improvement of quality that occurs immediately before managers performance appraisals are done.

d. cyclical phenomenon unexplained to date in which qulaity deteriorates then improves and so on.

I believe the answer is B.

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