Question: A design engineer wants to construct a sample mean chart for controlling the service life of a halogen headlamp his company produces. He knows from
A design engineer wants to construct a sample mean chart for controlling the service life of a halogen headlamp his company produces. He knows from numerous previous samples that this service life is normally distributed with a mean of 500 hours and a standard deviation of 20 hours. On three recent production batches, he tested service life on random samples of four headlamps, with these results
| Sample | Service Life (hours) | |||
| 1 | 495 | 500 | 505 | 500 |
| 2 | 525 | 515 | 505 | 515 |
| 3 | 470 | 480 | 460 | 470 |
If he uses upper and lower control limits of 520 and 480 hours, on what sample(s) (if any) does service life appear to be out of control?
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sample 1
all samples are in control
sample 2
both samples 2 and 3
sample 3
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