A manufacturer of lawn mowers used to advertise on television by showing a woman giving one pull to the starting rope. If the mower started, she said 'pass'. If it did not start, the mower went back for rework. This type of test of lawn mowers is a form of:

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Feedback control is a type of control in which the output of a system is measured and used to adjust the input. In this case, the output is whether or not the mower starts, and the input is the number of pulls on the starting rope. The manufacturer is using feedback control to ensure that the mowers are starting with one pull.

A Manufacturer of Lawn Mowers Used to Advertise on Television