Garcia's Garage desires to create some colorful charts and graphs to illustrate how reliably its mechanics​ "get under the hood and fix the​ problem." The historic average for the proportion of customers that return for the same repair within the​ 30-day warranty period is 0.09. each​ month, Garcia track 80 customers to see whether they return for warranty repairs. The results are plotted as a proportion to report progress toward the goal. If the control limits are to be set at two standard deviations on either side of the​ goal, determine the control limits for this chart. In​ March, 14 of the 80 customers in the sample group returned for warranty repairs. Is the repair process in​ control?   The UCL Subscript p equals           and the LCL Subscript p equals  (Enter your responses rounded to three decimal places​.)

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Garcia's Garage desires to create some colorful charts and graphs to illustrate how reliably its mechanics​ "get under the hood and fix the​ problem." The historic average for the proportion of customers that return for the same repair within the​ 30-day warranty period is 0.09. each​ month, Garcia track 80 customers to see whether they return for warranty repairs. The results are plotted as a proportion to report progress toward the goal. If the control limits are to be set at two standard deviations on either side of the​ goal, determine the control limits for this chart. In​ March, 14 of the 80 customers in the sample group returned for warranty repairs. Is the repair process in​ control?

 
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UCL Subscript p equals           and the LCL Subscript p equals 
(Enter your responses rounded to three decimal places​.)
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Proportion of customers that return for repairs p = 0.09

The sampled customers n = 80

Standard deviation σ = p*(1-p)n

UCL= p + 2*α

LCL= p - 2*α

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