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Chapter 8: Q69SE (page 452)

Question:Quality control. Refer to Exercise 5.68. The mean diameter of the bearings produced by the machine is supposed to be .5 inch. The company decides to use the sample mean from Exercise 5.68 to decide whether the process is in control (i.e., whether it is producing bearings with a mean diameter of .5 inch). The machine will be considered out of control if the mean of the sample of n = 25 diameters is less than .4994 inch or larger than .5006 inch. If the true mean diameter of the bearings produced by the machine is .501 inch, what is the approximate probability that the test will imply that the process is out of control?

Short Answer

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The probability that the test will imply that the process is out of control is 0.97725.

Step by step solution

01

Given Information

The sample size is 25

The mean is 0.501.inch

The standard deviation is 0.001.inch

The standard deviation of x¯is calculated as

σX¯=σn=0.00125=0.0002

02

Explanation

The probability is computed as

px¯<0.4994=px¯-μσn<0.4994-0.5010.0002=pz<-0.00160.0002=pz<-8=0

And

px¯>0.5006=px¯-μσn>0.5006-0.5010.0002=pz>-0.00040.0002=pz>-2=0.97725

Here we used equation 1 & 2 to get required probability.

px¯<0.4994+px¯>0.5006=0+0.97725=0.97725

Hence, the probability is 0.97725

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