A cola-dispensing machine is set to dispense 8 ounces of cola per cup, with a standard deviation of 1.0 ounce. The manufacturer of the machine would like to set the control limit in such a way that, for samples of 34, 5% of the sample means will be greater than the upper control limit, and 5% of the sample means will be less than the lower control limit.

a. At what value should the control limit be set? (Round z values to two decimal places. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
b. If the population mean shifts to 7.6, what is the probability that the change will be detected? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answer to 4 decimal places.)
c. If the population mean shifts to 8.7, what is the probability that the change will be detected? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answer to 4 decimal places.)

Step-by-step explanation:

Hello!

The variable of interest is X: ounces per cup dispensed by the cola-dispensing machine.

The population mean is known to be μ= 8 ounces and its standard deviation σ= 1.0 ounce. Assuming the variable has a normal distribution.

A sample of 34 cups was taken:

a. You need to calculate the Z-values corresponding to the top 5% of the distribution and the lower 5% of it. This means you have to look for both Z-values that separates two tails of 5% each from the body of the distribution:

The lower value will be:

= -1.648

You reverse the standardization using the formula

X[bar]= 7.72ounces

The lower control point will be 7.72 ounces.

The upper value will be:

X[bar]= 8.28ounces

The upper control point will be 8.82 ounces.

b. Now μ= 7.6, considering the control limits of a.

P(7.72≤X[bar]≤8.28)= P(X[bar]≤8.28)- P(X[bar]≤7.72)

P(Z≤(8.28-7.6)/(1/√34))- P(Z≤7.72-7.6)/(1/√34))

P(Z≤7.11)- P(Z≤0.70)= 1 - 0.758= 0.242

There is a 0.242 probability of the sample means being between the control limits, this means that they will be outside the limits with a probability of 1 - 0.242= 0.758, meaning that the probability of the change of population mean being detected is 0.758.

b. For this item μ= 8.7, the control limits do not change:

P(7.72≤X[bar]≤8.28)= P(X[bar]≤8.28)- P(X[bar]≤7.72)

P(Z≤(8.28-8.7)/(1/√34))- P(Z≤7.72-8.7)/(1/√34))

P(Z≤-2.45)- P(Z≤-5.71)=0.007 - 0= 0.007

There is a 0.007 probability of not detecting the mean change, which means that you can detect it with a probability of 0.993.

I hope it helps!

in simplified version   it would be x ≤-4

step-by-step explanation:

multiply each term in x ≤-4 by -1