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40. Cooking Preferences Jeff Friedman, of Example 5 in the text, was again reassigned, this time to the home economics department of the electric utility. He interviewed 140 people in a suburban shopping center to discover some of their cooking habits. He obtained the following results:
58 use microwave ovens;
63 use electric ranges;
58 use gas ranges;
19 use microwave ovens and electric ranges;
17 use microwave ovens and gas ranges;
4 use both gas and electric ranges;
1 uses all three;
2 use none of the three.
Should he be reassigned one more time? Why or why not?
EXAMPLE 5 Utility Maintenance
Jeff Friedman is a section chief for an electric utility company. The employees in his section cut down trees, climb poles, and splice wire. Friedman reported the following information to the management of the utility.
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