A canning company defines a "nonconformance" as an orange juice can whose diameter is beyond the upper specification limit.A manager at the canning company wants to monitor the number of such orange juice cans produced per day.Each day,an employee will randomly select 120 cans over a period of four weeks.The employee then determines and plots the number of nonconformance cans in each sample.The appropriate control chart is a(n):
A)u-chart.
B)R-chart.
C)p-chart.
D)np-chart.

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The np-chart is used for monitoring the number of defective items in a fixed sample size, which aligns with the scenario of counting nonconforming cans out of a fixed sample of 120 cans per day.

A Canning Company Defines a "Nonconformance" as an Orange Juice