A bakery makes chocolate-covered cherries that are world famous. The five step process
includes:
1) selecting cherries and boiling them in a sugary sauce
2) pouring a small amount of chocolate onto wax-paper
3) setting a cherry with sauce onto the chocolate
4) pouring chocolate over the cherry and
5) removing the cherry from the waxed paper with no damage and placing it in the
box.
So far the store made 2700 chocolate-covered cherries and the store owner rejected 120 of the chocolate-covered cherries. This results in
a DPMO of approximately:
8889
14000
22500
562500
1777777