A manufacturer of cellular phones has decided that an assembly line is operating satisfactorily if less than 0.05% of the phones produced per day are defective. To check the quality of a dayʹs production, the companydecides to randomly
Sample 10 phones from a dayʹs production to test for defects. Define the population ofinterest to the manufacturer.
A) all the phones produced during the day in question
B) the 10 phones sampled and tested
C) the 10 responses: defective or not defective
D) the 0.05% of the phones that are defective

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The population of interest to the manufacturer includes all the phones produced during the day in question, as the goal is to ensure that less than 0.05% of these phones are defective.

A Manufacturer of Cellular Phones Has Decided That an Assembly