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Question 1: Normal Distribution: A company supplies pins in bulk to a customer. The company uses an automatic lathe to produce the pins. Due to many causes -vibration, temperature, wear and tear, and the like- the lengths of the pins made by the machine are normally distributed with a mean of 1.012 inches and a standard deviation of 0.018inch. The customer will buy only those pins with length of 1.00inch but will accept up to 0.02inch deviation on either side. This 0.02 is known as the tolerance.

(a)  What percentage of the pins will be acceptable to the consumer?

In order to improve percentage accepted, the production manager and the engineers discuss adjusting the population mean and the standard deviation of the length of the pins.

(b)  If the lather can be adjusted to have the mean of the lengths equal to any desired value, what should it be adjusted to? Why?

(c)  Suppose the mean cannot be adjusted but the standard deviation can be reduced. What maximum value of the standard deviation would make 90% of the parts acceptable to the consumer? (Assume the mean to be 1.012)

(d)  Repeat question (c), with 95% and 99% of the pins acceptable.

(e)  In practice, which one do you think is easier to adjust; the mean or the standard deviation?

Why?

The manager then considers the costs involved. The cost of resetting the machine to adjust the population mean involves the engineers' time and the cost of production time lost. The cost of reducing the population standard deviation involves, in addition to these costs, the cost of overhauling the machine and reengineering the process.

(f)   Assume it costs $150 x2 to decrease the standard deviation by (x/1000) inch. Find the cost of

reducing the standard deviation to the values found in questions (c) and (d).

(g)  Now assume that the mean has been adjusted to the desired value found in question (b) at

a cost of $80. Calculate the reduction in standard deviation necessary to have 90%, 95% and

99% of the parts acceptable. Calculate the respective costs, as in question (f).

(h)  Based on your answers to questions (f) and (g), what are your recommended mean and standard deviation?

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