An electronics part manufacturer reprimanded an employee. The number of defective parts produced by the employee increased. The increase in the number of defective parts is probably an example of:

a. assignable variation.
b. common-cause variation.
c. random variation.
d. homoscedasticity.
e. costs of attrition.


A

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