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The Good Chocolate Company makes a variety of chocolate candies,including a 12-ounce chocolate bar (340 grams) and a box of six1-ounce chocolate bars (170 grams).

a.Specifications for the 12-ounce bar are 325grams to 355 grams. What is the largest standard deviation (ingrams) that the machine that fills the bar molds can have and stillbe considered capable if the average fill is 340 grams?(Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal placesand final answer to 3 decimal places.)
  

Standard deviation             grams

b.The machine that fills the bar molds for the1-ounce bars has a standard deviation of .80 gram. The fillingmachine is set to deliver an average of 1.03 ounces per bar.Specifications for the six-bar box are 153 to 187 grams. Is theprocess capable? Hint: The variance for the boxis equal to six times the bar variance.
  

  • Yes

  • No


c.What is the lowest setting in ouncesfor the filling machine that will provide capability in terms ofthe six-bar box? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2decimal places and final answer to 3 decimal places.)
  

Lowest setting             ounces

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aProcess mean 340 gramsLSL 325 gramsUSL 355 gramsSpecification mean Average of USL and LSL 3253552 340Process mean is equal to the specification meanTherefore the    See Answer
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