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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