Applied Statistics in Business and Economics
Applied Statistics in Business and Economics
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ISBN: 9780077837303
Author: David Doane, Lori Seward Senior Instructor of Operations Management
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 17, Problem 49CE

In painting an automobile at the factory, the thickness of the color coat has a process mean of 1.00 mil and a process standard deviation of 0.07 mil. Twenty samples of five cars were tested, resulting in the mean paint thicknesses shown below. (a) Construct upper and lower control limits for the x ¯ chart, using the given process parameters. (b) Plot the data on the control chart. (c) Is this process in control? Explain your reasoning.

Chapter 17, Problem 49CE, In painting an automobile at the factory, the thickness of the color coat has a process mean of 1.00

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