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To determine: The percentage of parts that will not meet the specifications.
Introduction: Deviations from a standard is inevitable in a production process for which tolerance limits are fixed but products that exceed the tolerance limits are removed and corrected, which is known as the control process.
b)
To determine: The values within which 95.44 percent of sample mean of the process will fall, when the process is in control and sample is n=16.
Introduction: Deviations from a standard is inevitable in a production process for which tolerance limits are fixed but products that exceed the tolerance limits are removed and corrected, which is known as the control process.
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