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Brawdy Plastics, Inc., produces plastic seat belt retainers for General Motors at the Brawdy Plastics plant in Buffalo, New York. After final assembly and painting, the pars are placed on a conveyor belt that moves the pars past a final inspection station. How fast the pars move past the final inspection station depends upon the line speed of the conveyor belt (feet per minute). Although faster line speeds are desirable, management is concerned hat increasing the line speed too much may not provide enough time for inspectors to identify which parts are actually defective. To test this theory, Brawdy Plastia conducted an experiment in which the same batch of parts, with a known number of defective parts, was inspected using a variety of line speeds. The following data were collected. Line Number of Speed Defective Parts Found 20 23 20 20 3O 19 3O 17 4O 15 4O 18 SO 14 SO 10 (a) Develop a scatter diagram with the line speed as the independent variable. 25 25 25 20 20 20 15 15 Number of Defective Parts 15 Number of Defective Parts Number of Defective Parts 10 10 10 5 5 5+ 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 O Line Speed (feet per minute) Line Speed (feet per minute) Line Speed (feet per minute) 25 20 15 Number of Defective Parts 10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 O Line Speed (feet per minute) A(b) What does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? 0 There appears to be a positive relationship between line speed (feet per minute) and the number of defective parts. 0 There appears to be no noticeable relationship between line speed (feet per minute) and the number of defective parts. 0 There appears to be a negative relationship between line speed (feet per minute) and the number of defective parts. (c) Use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation. )7: (d) Predict the number of defective parts found for a line speed of 25 feet per minute. |:l