[ Exercise 1 ]

1. The number of banks charging their customers ATM user fees is increasing.
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2. The majority of the committee feels that the right decision was made.
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3. Time as well as temperature is important during the batch process.
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4. The professor told the student, "You need to finish early."
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5. The graduate assistant conducted the experiment. Although time and the amount of pressure applied to the conductive material were essential to success, the process lasted too long.
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6. Different criteria often conflict with each other, implying that simultaneously optimizing different objectives is relatively difficult.
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7. The Taguchi approach combines experimental design techniques with quality loss considerations and minimizes the average quadratic loss as well.
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8. Engineers must either combine all inputs to create the output of a product or set the parameter values so that the product's performance remains unaffected.
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9. The notions can be simply modified by implementing the following procedure:
   Select the levels that maximize SN.
   Estimate the slope of the linear regression model.
   Identify the control factors and the adjustment factors.
   Identify the control factors that significantly affect the variables.
   Adjust the target as much as possible.
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10. To simulate the program, the engineer must take precautions.
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11. My academic advisor gave me much valuable advice when I was a graduate student.
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12. Before examining all of the available options, they decided to initiate the plan.
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13. The proposed procedure corrects dimensional distortion and errors better than conventional options.
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14. Our company prefers that organization more than their institute does.
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15. The new company is as competitive as, if not more competitive than, existing ones.
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16. When a student is preparing for an examination, he or she should get plenty of rest before the test.
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17. The professor prefers using a calculator to estimate costs instead of using a pen because it can more easily add numbers.
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18. The graduate student recorded the data and then wrote a summary report.
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