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Bottoms Up bottles soft drinks. It plans on introducing a new style of bottle to attract more drinkers. The new bottle can hold no more than 12.1 ounces of cola. The company also knows that anything less than 11.9 ounches in the new bottle will be apparent to potential customers as a less than full bottle because of the bottles narrow neck. The current bottling machine is set for 12 ounches and is able to maintain a standard deviation of 0.019 ounce. Compute the Cp. Should the company adopt the new bottle - explain answer.

Cp = process capability index

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Cp = (12.1-11.9)/(6*.019) = 1.75

This is above most minimum requirements so the process would be okay based on the ...

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