Manufacturing and Product Development
The Visniak Bottling Plant in Cheektowaga, New York, has been accused of systematically underfilling 12-oz bottles of soda. An inspection team enters the plant one afternoon and selects bottled soda ready for shipment from various locations within the plant. The contents of each selected bottle are carefully measured.
a. Describe the population and the sample in this problem.
b. Is this a random sample? Justify your answer.