Weights of Candy Bars Narrative

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Weights of Candy Bars Narrative
A candy bar company is interested in reducing the percentage of defective candy bars made, where a defective candy bar is one that has too few almonds by weight. The company randomly samples 100 candy bars a day for 5 days and finds the percentage of the defective bars to be 0.0200, 0.0125, 0.0225, 0.0100, and 0.0150, respectively. The company wants to construct a control chart for the proportion defective in samples of size n = 100.
-Refer to Weights of Candy Bars Narrative. Estimate the standard deviation of the sample proportions.

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