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Question
In a certain bottling industry the quality control inspector recorded the weight of each of the 5 bottles selected at random during each hour of four hours in the morning.
| Time | Weight in ml | ||||
| 8:00 AM | 43 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 41 |
| 9:00 AM | 40 | 39 | 40 | 39 | 44 |
| 10:00 AM | 42 | 42 | 43 | 38 | 40 |
| 11:00 AM | 39 | 43 | 40 | 39 | 42 |
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Solution
| Time | Weight in ml | `bar"X"` | R | ||||
| 8:00 AM | 43 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 41 | 42 | 2 |
| 9:00 AM | 40 | 39 | 40 | 39 | 44 | 40.4 | 5 |
| 10:00 AM | 42 | 42 | 43 | 38 | 40 | 41 | 5 |
| 11:00 AM | 39 | 43 | 40 | 39 | 42 | 40.6 | 4 |
| Total | 164 | 16 | |||||
The control limits for `bar"X"` chart is
`\overset{==}{"X"} = (sumbar"X")/"Number of samples" = 164/4` = 41
`bar"R" = 16/4` = 4
UCL = `\overset{==}{"X"} - "A"_2 bar"R"`
= 41 + (0.58)(4)
41 + 2.32 = 43.32
CL = `\overset{==}{"X"}` = 41
LCL = `\overset{==}{"X"} - "A"_2 bar"R"`
= 41 – (0.58)(4)
= 41 – 2.32
= 38.68
The control limits for range chart is
UCL = `"D"_4 bar"R"` = 2.115(4)
= 8.46
CL = `bar"R"` = 4
LCL = `"D"_2 bar"R"` = 0(4) = 0
Conclusion: Since all the points of sample mean and Range are within the control limits, the process is in control.
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| 1 | 12.5 | 12.3 | 12.6 | 12.7 |
| 2 | 12.8 | 12.4 | 12.4 | 12.8 |
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| Sample No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Sample Observations |
50 | 21 | 50 | 48 | 46 | 55 | 45 | 50 | 47 | 56 |
| 55 | 50 | 53 | 53 | 50 | 51 | 48 | 56 | 53 | 53 | |
| 52 | 53 | 48 | 50 | 44 | 56 | 53 | 54 | 549 | 55 | |
| 49 | 50 | 52 | 51 | 48 | 47 | 48 | 53 | 52 | 54 | |
| 54 | 46 | 47 | 53 | 47 | 51 | 51 | 47 | 54 | 52 |
