A Candy Bar Company Is Interested in Reducing the Percent

question 126

Essay

A candy bar company is interested in reducing the percent defective candy bars made, where a defective candy bar has too few almonds by weight. The company randomly samples 100 candy bars a day for 5 days and finds the percent defective to be 0.0200, 0.0125, 0.0225, 0.0100, and 0.0150. The company wants to construct a control chart for the proportion defective in samples of size n = 100.
Estimate the process fraction defective p.
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Estimate the standard deviation of the sample proportions.
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What are the control limits?
UCL = ______________
LCL = ______________
How are these control limits used?
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