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Flag Apollo Drones Inc. manufactures small aerial drones for a variety of applications. Although they source some of the

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Flag Apollo Drones Inc. manufactures small aerial drones for a
variety of applications. Although they source some of the parts,
the frame for the body of the drone is manufactured in-house and
must meet strict quality control guidelines. One of the measures
that are particularly important is the total weight of the body
frame. Quality control is based on the statistical properties of
sampling to make inferences about the process of interest. The
company would like you to apply the analytic and problem-solving
skills you recently developed in a statistics and data analytics
course to provide guidance on the best parameters for the
manufacturing process and to design a testing protocol to ensure
quality standards are maintained. In particular, the company would
like you to analyze data for a new small drone it has developed for
which the body frame should weigh no more than 0.6 pounds. The
company has begun an initial production run, manufacturing 5 units
per week, and provides you with data from the first eight weeks. I
would like you to determine whether the current average frame
weight is acceptable, or whether it should be reduced. The
recommendation on reducing the average frame weight should be based
on a calculation of the associated costs. The company can reduce
the average frame weight for the manufacturing process by up to
0.05 pounds per unit by machining out some of the metal of the
frame, but the company estimates that each 0.01lb. reduction in
weight will cost an additional $3per unit to manufacture. The
company cannot adjust the standard deviation of the manufacturing
process. Each drone frame that weighs more than 0.6 pounds and that
goes into a final product for a customer will cost the company a
total of $325.Assume the company plans to manufacture 100 units per
day. Apollo Drones is also planning ahead for future quality
control measures. I would like your help in calculating the sample
size of manufactured drones that should be tested each day (after
production ramps up to 100 units/day) for a 95% confidence interval
on the average frame weight to have a margin of error no greater
than 0.02.
Part 2: Determine what sample size of manufactured drones should
be tested each day for quality control once final production
begins.6. If the company would like the margin of error (one-half
the total width of the confidence interval) on the average drone
frame weight to be no greater than 0.02pounds, what sample size
should be used? Also report the standard variate that you use in
your calculation (i.e. 𝑧𝛼/2)
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