A Car Mechanic Is Thinking of Guaranteeing Customers That an Oil

Essay

A car mechanic is thinking of guaranteeing customers that an oil change will take no more than 15 minutes with a 99.73% confidence level. He takes a few samples of size 5 and finds the process mean to be 13 minutes with a standard deviation of .2 minutes and average sample range of 1.2 minutes. Find the A₂, D₂, and D₃ values and use them to compute the upper and lower limits for an x-bar chart. Use the upper limit to determine if the mechanic can offer a 15 minute guarantee. Assume the mechanic plots the samples on the x-bar control chart and finds the process is in control, is there anything else the mechanic is missing to ensure the process is in control?