Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition
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ISBN: 9780134685113
Author: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, David F. Stephan, Kathryn Szabat
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 3, Problem 69PS
A quality characteristic of interest for a tea-bag-filling process is the weight of the tea in the individual bags. If the bags are underfilled, two problems arise. First, customers may not be able to brew the tea to be as strong as they wish. Second, the company may be in violation of the truth-in-labeling laws. For this product, the label weight on the package indicates that, on average, there are 5.5 grams of tea in a bag. If the
a. Compute the mean,
b. Compute the
c. Interpret the measures of
d. Construct a boxplot Are the data skewed? If so, how?
e. Is the company meeting the requirement set forth on the label that. on average. there are 5.5 grams of tea in a bag? If you were in charge of this process. what changes. if any. would you try to make concerning the distribution of weights in the individual bags?
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Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition
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