You just got hired as a quality intern for a small startup making 3d printers. each printer uses a number of small motors and one of your jobs is to make sure that these motors, received from a small supplier, meet your rpm (revolutions per minute) specifications. the supplier sends you an mean chart (x-bar chart) with each batch of motors to show you that the average rpms for each batch meets your specifications. notwithstanding this information from the supplier, you are seeing some unexpected inconsistent performance among the motors within each batch. what should be your first step to you and the supplier get to the bottom of this issue? have the supplier create and send you a p-chart with each batch so that you can understand what proportion of all motors are bad in addition to a mean chart, have the supplier create and send you a range chart with each batch. make sure the supplier's manufacturing process is capable of meeting your design specifications instruct the supplier to send you a range chart with each batch and to not send you any more mean charts.

In march 2012, the state of california started requiring that all packaging for food and drink with the additive 4-methylimidazole (4-mi) be clearly labeled with a cancer warning. because of this, both pepsi and coke changed their formula to eliminate 4-mi as an ingredient. if pepsi and coke did not change their formula, holding all else constant, what would have happened to the demand for these goods, assuming pepsi and coke were in a competitive market? a. the demand curve for both pepsi and coke would have shifted to the right, causing the price of both products to decrease and the profits for the companies to fall. b. the demand curve for pepsi and coke would have remained unchanged, but the price of both products would have decreased and the profits for the companies would have fallen. c. the demand curve for pepsi and coke would have decreased, but the prices and profits would not have changed. d. the demand curve for only one of them would change because pepsi and coke are substitutes. e. the demand curve for pepsi and coke would have shifted to the left, causing the price of both products to decrease and the profits for both companies to fall.