Question: A quality analyst wants to construct a control chart for controlling a packaging process. Each day last week, he randomly selected four packages and weighed
A quality analyst wants to construct a control chart for controlling a packaging process. Each day last week, he randomly selected four packages and weighed each. The population standard deviation is 2.15. The data from that activity appear below.
| Weight | ||||
| Day | Package 1 | Package 2 | Package 3 | Package 4 |
| Monday | 32 | 26 | 24 | 34 |
| Tuesday | 18 | 28 | 27 | 22 |
| Wednesday | 33 | 17 | 25 | 30 |
| Thursday | 18 | 22 | 26 | 17 |
| Friday | 28 | 20 | 24 | 19 |
a. What is the mean of all the sample means? [ Select ] ["20.62", "19.11", "20.63", "22.05", "24.50"]
b. Calculate upper and lower 3-sigma x-bar chart control limits that allow for natural variations. [ Select ] ["25.70, 18.41", "21.45, 18.65", "20.6, 2.82", "15.53, 2.4", "27.73, 21.28"]
c. Based on the x-bar chart, is this process in control? [ Select ] ["yes", "no", "possibly based on acceptable variation", "cannot determine based on the information given"]
d. Calculate upper and lower limits for R-chart. [ Select ] ["15.89, 0", "26.82, 0", "11.41, 0", "24.65, 0", "27.54, 0"]
e. Is the range chart in control? [ Select ] ["no", "cannot determine based on the information given", "based on dispersion in the process, no", "yes"]
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