Bottling Company Case Study

Bottling Company Case Study

Svontaya Murray

Professor P. Self

Math 300- Statistics

June 8, 2015

Bottle Number | Ounces

| Bottle Number | Ounces | BottleNumber | Ounces |

1 | 14.5 | 11 | 15 | 21 | 14.1 |

2 | 14.6 | 12 | 15.1 | 22 | 14.2 |

3 | 14.7 | 13 | 15 | 23 | 14 |

4 | 14.8 | 14 | 14.4 | 24 | 14.9 |

5 | 14.9 | 15 | 15.8 | 25 | 14.7 |

6 | 15.3 | 16 | 14 | 26 | 14.5 |

7 | 14.9 | 17 | 16 | 27 | 14.6 |

8 | 15.5 | 18 | 16.1 | 28 | 14.8 |

9 | 14.8 | 19 | 15.8 | 29 | 14.8 |

10 | 15.2 | 20 | 14.5 | 30 | 14.6 |

The Dunning Bottling Company was established in 2000 by Spencer Dunning. Mr. Dunning was born in Meridian, Mississippi. As Spencer was growing up, he was infatuated with being a boss of a company and running it satisfactorily. His decisions on owning a bottling company came about when he had an incident with a cold drink he once bought from another company. He put hard work and dedication into making the company; he lived by a motto of satisfying his customers, which was “Sparkling drink designed to make you feel better”.

The current manager, Mrs. Dunning, at the Dunning Bottling Company has been receiving ample amount of complaints about the amount of soda in their bottles not being sixteen ounces. It hurts the company on having so many complaints like that because our company is there to satisfy the customers and their thirst. As a manager, she took the proper procedures in investigating the issues of why the bottles not equaling up correctly by taking it to the head board members in a meeting.

According to Bluman (2013), he stated that, “When it comes to the mean, I have to add the values of the data and divide it by the total number of values”. (p.114). In the data that my professor gave me from the bottling company case study, the mean came out to be 14.87 because I added all the numbers and divided it by thirty. The median is found by putting all the numbers in order from least to greatest and selecting the middle value....