Manuel Banales, Marketing Director of Plano Power Plants Inc.'s Electrical Division, is leading a study to assess the relative importance of product features.Two items on a survey questionnaire distributed to 100 of Plano's customers asked them to rate the importance of "ease of maintenance" and "efficiency of operation" on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 1 meaning "not important" and 10 meaning "highly important").His staff assembled the following statistics on these two items: What can Manuel conclude from these statistics?

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Manuel Banales, Marketing Director of Plano Power Plants Inc.'s Electrical Division, is leading a study to assess the relative importance of product features.Two items on a survey questionnaire distributed to 100 of Plano's customers asked them to rate the importance of "ease of maintenance" and "efficiency of operation" on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 1 meaning "not important" and 10 meaning "highly important").His staff assembled the following statistics on these two items:  What can Manuel conclude from these statistics?

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The Answer of Manuel Banales, Marketing Director of Plano Power Plants Inc.'s Electrical Division, is leading a study to assess the relative importance of product features.Two items on a survey questionnaire distributed to 100 of Plano's customers asked them to rate the importance of "ease of maintenance" and "efficiency of operation" on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 1 meaning "not important" and 10 meaning "highly important").His staff assembled the following statistics on these two items:  What can Manuel conclude from these statistics?