Question

A production manager at a pottery factory has noticed that about 70 percent of defects result from impurities in raw materials, 15 percent result from human error, 10 percent from machine malfunctions, and 5 percent from a variety of other causes. This manager is most likely using __________.

Answer 1

Pareto chart

Step-by-step explanation:

Pareto chart is a kind of chart which contains both the bars and the line graph, where the individual values are presented in the descending order by the bars, and cumulative total is presented by line.

The line in the Pareto chart represents integral along horizontal axis of piece-wise continuous function which is represented by sequence of bars.

The given case in which the impurities are stated as a function of various conditions. The manager is using the Pareto chart as the total corresponds to 100% which is represented by the line and the various conditions can be drawn as bars.