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Author: WINSTON, Wayne L.
Publisher: Cengage,
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The time needed for performing a machining operation is to be investigated. Historically, the process has had a standard deviation equal to 0.146 minutes. The means (in minutes) of 39 samples of n = 6 are:

sample

mean

sample

mean

sample

mean

1

3.86

14

3.81

27

3.81

2

3.90

15

3.83

28

3.86

3

3.83

16

3.86

29

3.98

4

3.81

17

3.82

30

3.96

5

3.84

18

3.86

31

3.88

6

3.83

19

3.84

32

3.76

7

3.87

20

3.87

33

3.83

8

3.88

21

3.84

34

3.77

9

3.84

22

3.82

35

3.86

10

3.80

23

3.89

36

3.80

11

3.88

24

3.86

37

3.84

12

3.86

25

3.88

38

3.79

13

3.88

26

3.90

39

3.85

 

the averagee of the 39-sample means is equal to 3.85. construct an xbar-chart for this process with two-sigma limits. Is the process in control? 

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