Question

How many units need to be started through a manufacturing process with a process yield of 0.86 to obtain 1812 non-defective units from the process? Please report your answer as an integer.

Answer 1

To obtain 1812 non-defective units from the process with a process yield of 0.86, 2112 units need to be started.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the number of units that need to be started through a manufacturing process, we can set up a proportion using the process yield. Let's call the number of units needed to be started 'x'. We can set up the proportion as:

Non-defective units/Total units = Process yield

Substituting the given values, we have:

1812/x = 0.86

Cross multiplying, we get:

0.86x = 1812

Dividing both sides by 0.86, we find:

x = 2111.6

Since the number of units must be an integer, we round up to the nearest whole number and conclude that 2112 units need to be started.