Problem 8.3. Let a be a positive number. Find three numbers whose sum is a and whose sum of squares is a minimum.
Give a geometric interpretation of this problem.

Asample of 200 rom computer chips was selected on each of 30 consecutive days, and the number of nonconforming chips on each day was as follows: the data has been given so that it can be copied into r as a vector. non.conforming = c(10, 15, 21, 19, 34, 16, 5, 24, 8, 21, 32, 14, 14, 19, 18, 20, 12, 23, 10, 19, 20, 18, 13, 26, 33, 14, 12, 21, 12, 27) #construct a p chart by using the following code. you will need to enter your values for pbar, lcl and ucl. pbar = lcl = ucl = plot(non.conforming/200, ylim = c(0,.5)) abline(h = pbar, lty = 2) abline(h = lcl, lty = 3) abline(h = ucl, lty = 3)