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Quality, Tolerance and Costs quiz - CCEA GCSE quiz

14questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Quality control (QC) is mainly about:

  2. Quality assurance (QA) differs from QC because QA:

  3. Which instrument measures a diameter most precisely?

  4. A go/no-go gauge shows a part is acceptable when:

  5. A shaft is dimensioned 20 mm plus or minus 0.1 mm. What is the upper limit?

  6. For a dimension 20 mm plus or minus 0.1 mm, the total tolerance is:

  7. Why are tolerances used instead of one exact size?

  8. Which of these is a direct cost?

  9. Which of these is an indirect cost (overhead)?

  10. Materials cost 3 pounds and labour 2 pounds per item; fixed costs are 400 pounds for 100 items. The total cost is:

  11. As more items are made, the cost per item usually:

  12. Which material form is usually the cheapest to buy?

  13. Why is recycling materials important for sustainability?

  14. Which is a genuine challenge of recycling in manufacturing?