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GATE 2024 PI – Question 22

Industrial Engineering · Work System Design · 1 mark · Multiple choice

With many work-sampling observations, which distribution estimates required sample size?

  1. Poisson
  2. Uniform
  3. Normal
  4. Exponential

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Correct answer: (C) Normal

Explanation

The observed working/idle fraction is a sample proportion. For large n its sampling distribution is approximately normal, permitting $n=z^2p(1-p)/e^2$ for specified precision e. **C**.

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