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Hypothesis Testing: Widgets Produced Per Shift

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Please help with the following problem regarding hypothesis testing. Provide a step by step solution.

In a given manufacturing environment there are three shifts which produce X thousands of widgets per eight hour shift. Management is concerned that midnight shift is not keeping up with the other shifts, but the numbers for all three shifts are rather close. How could you use hypothesis testing to show that this is the case?

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The efficiency at which a manufacturing company produces at midnight is compared with other shifts. Step by step calculations are provided.

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Problem: In a given manufacturing environment there are three shifts which produce X thousands of widgets per eight hour shift. Management is concerned that midnight shift is not keeping up with the other shifts, but the numbers for all three shifts are rather close. How could you use hypothesis testing to show that this is the case?

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What we would have to do is an ANOVA. What an ANOVA looks at is if there is a ...

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