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a Supplier of Silicone Sheets for Producers of Computer

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TABLE 17-7
A supplier of silicone sheets for producers of computer chips wants to evaluate her manufacturing process. She takes samples of size 5 from each day's output and counts the number of blemishes on each silicone sheet. The results from 20 days of such evaluations are presented below.
 Sheet  Day 12345 Mean  Range81014658.69281366108.67310127799.05459127108.6758389107.676979698.03710105767.65810910658.0596106998.0410698687.431185610107.85126477127.2813757696.8414588766.8315712106109.06167114787.4717845475.64181141111109.4719610610108.442061212688.86\begin{array}{crrrrrrr}&&&&{\text { Sheet }} \\\text { Day } & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & \underline{\text { Mean }} & \underline{\text { Range} } \\\hline & 8 & 10 & 14 & 6 & 5 & 8.6 & 9 \\2 & 8 & 13 & 6 & 6 & 10 & 8.6 & 7 \\3 & 10 & 12 & 7 & 7 & 9 & 9.0 & 5 \\4 & 5 & 9 & 12 & 7 & 10 & 8.6 & 7 \\5 & 8 & 3 & 8 & 9 & 10 & 7.6 & 7 \\6 & 9 & 7 & 9 & 6 & 9 & 8.0 & 3 \\7 & 10 & 10 & 5 & 7 & 6 & 7.6 & 5 \\8 & 10 & 9 & 10 & 6 & 5 & 8.0 & 5 \\9 & 6 & 10 & 6 & 9 & 9 & 8.0 & 4 \\10 & 6 & 9 & 8 & 6 & 8 & 7.4 & 3 \\11 & 8 & 5 & 6 & 10 & 10 & 7.8 & 5 \\12 & 6 & 4 & 7 & 7 & 12 & 7.2 & 8 \\13 & 7 & 5 & 7 & 6 & 9 & 6.8 & 4 \\14 & 5 & 8 & 8 & 7 & 6 & 6.8 & 3 \\15 & 7 & 12 & 10 & 6 & 10 & 9.0 & 6 \\16 & 7 & 11 & 4 & 7 & 8 & 7.4 & 7 \\17 & 8 & 4 & 5 & 4 & 7 & 5.6 & 4 \\18 & 11 & 4 & 11 & 11 & 10 & 9.4 & 7 \\19 & 6 & 10 & 6 & 10 & 10 & 8.4 & 4 \\20 & 6 & 12 & 12 & 6 & 8 & 8.8 & 6\end{array}
-Referring to Table 17-7, an Xˉ\bar { X } chart is to be used for the number of blemishes. The center line of this chart is located at ________.


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