As a hospital administrator of a large hospital, you are concerned with the absenteeism among nurses' aides. The issue has been raised by registered nurses, who feel they often have to perform work normally done by their aides. To get the facts, absenteeism data were gathered for the last three weeks, which is considered a representative period for future conditions. After taking random samples of

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personnel files each day, the following data were produced:

Day	Aides Absent	Day	Aides Absent	Day	Aides Absent
1	6	6	4	11	4
2	5	7	3	12	3
3	5	8	5	13	12
4	4	9	3	14	2
5	7	10	6	15	4

Because your assessment of absenteeism is likely to come under careful scrutiny, you would like a type I error of only 1 percent. You want to be sure to identify any instances of unusual absences. If some are present, you will have to explore them on behalf of the registered nurses.

Part 2

a. Design a p-chart.

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