Jake Flanaghan,Vice President for inpatient pharmacy,at Great Atlantic Medical Center,is designing a c chart to monitor the number of inpatient medication errors that occur each month. The total number of medication errors for January - December last year was 37. The centerline for Jake's c chart is ___________.
A) 3.08
B) 37
C) 8.35
D) -2.18
E) 0.00

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The centerline for a c chart is the average number of defects (errors) per time period. Here, the total number of errors is 37 over 12 months, so the centerline is 37/12 = 3.08.

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