Scenario 2.5
A job consists of three distinct work elements that were timed with a highly accurate Swiss watch by a trained industrial engineer wearing a pristine white lab jacket and carrying an official-looking clipboard.Worker ratings were less inflated by the newness of the job elements to the worker than by the overall nervousness of the worker.The engineer recorded ten observations and assigned the performance rating that is recorded in the bottom row of the table under the corresponding work element.All recorded times are in seconds.

-Use the data in Scenario 2.5 to answer this question.If the rating factor is 15%,what is the normal time for Element 2?
A)23.9 seconds
B)27.5 seconds
C)28.1 seconds
D)31.6 seconds

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Scenario 2.5
A job consists of three distinct work elements that were timed with a highly accurate Swiss watch by a trained industrial engineer wearing a pristine white lab jacket and carrying an official-looking clipboard.Worker ratings were less inflated by the newness of the job elements to the worker than by the overall nervousness of the worker.The engineer recorded ten observations and assigned the performance rating that is recorded in the bottom row of the table under the corresponding work element.All recorded times are in seconds.
 
-Use the data in Scenario 2.5 to answer this question.If the rating factor is 15%,what is the normal time for Element 2?
A)23.9 seconds 
B)27.5 seconds 
C)28.1 seconds 
D)31.6 seconds

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The normal time is calculated by dividing the observed time by (1 + rating factor). If the rating factor is 15%, it means the worker is working at 115% efficiency. Therefore, the normal time is the observed time divided by 1.15.

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