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. What are the control limits?

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Definitions:

Field Experiment

An experiment conducted in a natural setting rather than a controlled environment to test hypotheses in real-world conditions.

Survey

A method of gathering information from a sample of individuals, typically involving questionnaires or interviews.

Naturalistic Observation

A research method where subjects are observed in their natural environment without any manipulation or intervention by the researcher.

Laboratory Experiment

An experimental research method in which variables are controlled and manipulated in a lab setting to observe the effects on another variable.