TABLE 17-7 A Supplier of Silicone Sheets for Producers of Computer Chips

Short Answer

TABLE 17-7
A supplier of silicone sheets for producers of computer chips wants to evaluate her manufacturing process. She takes samples of size 5 from each day's output and counts the number of blemishes on each silicone sheet. The results from 20 days of such evaluations are presented below.
-Referring to Table 17-7, an R chart is to be constructed for the number of blemishes. One way to create the lower control limit involves multiplying the mean of the sample ranges by D₃. For this data set, the value of D₃ is ________.