Question: An employee performs statistical process control on a process she is in charge of. Each day she collects sample data and adds a new point

An employee performs statistical process control on a process she is in charge of. Each day she collects sample data and adds a new point to the chart. For the first time in the months since she has been charting the process, the point she just plotted is below the lower control limit. Which of the following are true?

The point that was just observed is due simply to random variation

It would be better if the point that was just observed were above the Upper Control Limit

It is time to determine the cause of the point that was just observed

She must have made a mistake calculating the Lower Control Limit

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