22/06/2021 Quality Control and Improvement with MINITAB - - Unit 5 - Week 3

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outline Objective Assignment 3
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course work?
1) In a process capability evaluation, 1 point
Week 0
Cp ≥ Cpk

Week 1 Cp does not have any relationship with Cpk

Cp < Cpk
Week 2

Week 3
No, the answer is incorrect.
Lecture 11: Score: 0
Individual Accepted Answers:
Moving Range Cp ≥ Cpk
Chart and
Attribute Chart 2) Processes that operate with “six sigma quality” in short term are assumed to 1 point
(unit? produce about ___ defects per million opportunities (DPMO) considering process shift.
unit=40&lesson=45)
2.4
Lecture 12:
Attribute 3.4
Control Charts 4.4
and Process
Capability
0.002
(unit? No, the answer is incorrect.
unit=40&lesson=46) Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Lecture 13:
3.4
Process
Capability 3) The concept of Six Sigma was developed by the following company. 1 point

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Index (unit? General Electric

unit=40&lesson=47)
Motorola
Lecture 14:
Honeywell
Process
Performance KPMG
and Sigma Deloitte
Level (unit?
unit=40&lesson=48) No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Lecture 15: Accepted Answers:
Process Motorola
Capability for
Attribute data 4) A c-chart is used for, 1 point
(unit?
unit=40&lesson=49) For defects with constant sample size
For defectives with constant sample size
Quiz :
Objective For defectives with varying sample size
Assignment 3 For defects with varying sample size
(assessment?
name=41) No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Assignment Accepted Answers:
solutions-3 For defects with constant sample size
(unit?
unit=40&lesson=76) 5) The Cp equals 1.50 and the process standard deviation equals 1.00. Determine the 1 point
tolerance spread.
Weekly
Feedback 1.0
(unit?
2.0
unit=40&lesson=50)
9.0
Download
12.0
Videos (unit?
unit=40&lesson=51) No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Week 4 Accepted Answers:
9.0
Week 5
6) Which of these is a necessary assumption made for the calculation of Cpk? 1 point

Week 6 The quality characteristic has a normal distribution

The quality characteristic has a lognormal distribution
Week 7
The quality characteristic has an exponential distribution

Week 8 The quality characteristic has any distribution

No, the answer is incorrect.
  Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
The quality characteristic has a normal distribution

7) In a c-chart, the LCL comes out to be -0.16. The value of LCL that should be used 1 point
is:

-0.16
0.16
1
0

h i i

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No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
0

8) If the process capability ratio Cp is 1.53, what percentages of the specification band 1 point
will be used by the process?

65.36%
75.11%
44.21%
21.42%
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
65.36%

9) Observe the MINITAB output for p-control chart with variable subgroup size. 1 point

Why the LCL value is considered constant (and taken as zero) in the above chart, rather than
having varying limits (e.g. as shown for UCL)?

There is a mistake while providing input to MINITAB interface

LCL is always equal to zero for p-chart
Proportion defective cannot be less than zero
None of the options (a, b or c)
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Proportion defective cannot be less than zero

10) The distribution of sample means _____. 1 point

is always a normal distribution.

will be normal if either the population is normal or the sample size is n>30
will be normal only if the sample size is at least n=30.
will be normal only if the population distribution is normal.
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
d

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Accepted Answers:
will be normal if either the population is normal or the sample size is n>30

11) The Minitab output of a random variable x is shown below. 1 point

Is the variable normally distributed?

Yes
Need more information
No
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Yes

12) Customers arrive at a department store, randomly and independently. What is an 1 point
appropriate distribution for modeling the number of customers that arrive in a 2-hour period?

Normal distribution

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Binominal Distribution
Poisson Distribution
Gamma Distribution
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Poisson Distribution

13) Samples of size 25 are selected from a population with mean 40 and standard 1 point
deviation 7.5. Based on Centre limit theorem, the mean of the sampling distribution of sample
means is

7.5
40
25
8
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
40

14) The appropriate measurement scale for a customer survey is: 1 point

Nominal
Ordinal
Ratio
Interval
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Ordinal

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15) Process capability study results are given in the below Figure: 1 point

Sigma level (Short Term) of the process is :

less than 1
more than 1
Equal to 1
Cannot say based on given information
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
more than 1

16) Five samples of subgroup size 3 were collected for a variable measurement. The 1 point
means and within subgroup variation are provided in the following table.

The values of which sample are identical?

sample 1
sample 2
sample 3
sample 4
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
sample 4

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17) One characteristic of attributes data is that they are always 1 point

continuous
discrete
expensive to collect
read from a scale of measurement
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
discrete

18) Which of the following is not a process capability or performance index? 1 point

Cpk
Ppk
Cp
Pp
Cz
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Cz

19) A bank statement on a customer’s savings account contains 24 items of account

information. Last month, 2500 bank statements were checked and 60 errors were found in the
account items. The approximate value of DPMO is __________.

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
(Type: Range) 990,1010

1 point
Question 20, 21, 22 :Data for the number of dissatisfied customers in a department store
observed for 25 samples of subgroup size 300 are shown in below Table. Np-chart is used to

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monitor the process.

20) The centerline of the chart is ___________.

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
(Type: Range) 8.90,10.10

1 point

21) Upper control limit of the chart for 3-sigma limit is ___________.

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
(Type: Range) 17.98,18.34

1 point

22) Lower control limit of the chart for 3-sigma limit is ____________.

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
(Type: Range) 0.23,0.25

1 point

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