College of Engineering

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Jim Lagrant
Professor of Practice in Manufacturing

MIE422 Statistical Quality Control [online]

QA Homework #4
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The purpose of this homework is for students to solve design of experiments problems using QA.
This homework is worth 25 points.

Please make sure your answer fits within the allotted box. Do not move, add, or delete pages.

Before you begin this homework, refer to chapter 8 of the QA manual for ANOVA testing and
refresh your memory on the use of the p-value in hypothesis testing in chapter 4 of your text

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1. Three adhesives are being analyzed for their impact on the bonding strength of paper in a pulp and
paper mill. The adhesives are each randomly applied to four batches. The data are shown in the
table below. Here, the three treatments are the adhesives ( ρ = 3), and the number of replications for
each treatment is 4 ( r = 4). The completely randomized design is balanced. (Note that this like
example 12-1.)

Adhesive Type Bonding Strength (kg)

1 12.7 14.3 12.1 14.9
2 15.3 17.2 15.8 17.9
3 9.7 12.3 11.2 11.7

1.1. Define a new data set in QA and use the appropriate One-way ANOVA statistical routine to
determine if there is a difference in terms of the mean bonding strength. Paste your QA output
below. (4 points)

1.2. At the 1% level of significance, is there a difference between the adhesives? (2 points)

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1.3. Above what level of significance, is there a difference in the diet types? Test. (1 point)

That is 0.10 OR 10.00 % significance level. There is difference in the diet types

1.4. Above what level of significance was the blocking effective? (1 point)
At 0.05 or 5 % level of significance was the blocking effective?