Consider a sampling plan with n=40 and c=1 and given Acceptable quality level (AQL), Lot tolerance percent defective (LTPD), producer's risk (α) and consumer's risk (β).Suppose that c is increased to 2, keeping AQL and LTPD unchanged, consumer's risk (β) will
A)Always decrease
B)Always increase
C)Sometime decrease
D)Stay the same.
E)None of the above.

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Increasing the acceptance number c from 1 to 2 generally increases the consumer's risk (β) because it allows more defective items in the sample before rejecting the lot, thus increasing the chance of accepting a bad lot.

Consider a Sampling Plan with N=40 and C=1 and Given