When building the channel, the english and french each started drilling on opposite sides of the english channel. the two sections became one in 1990. the french used more advanced drilling machinery than the english. suppose the english could drill the channel in 6.2 years, and the french could drill in 5.8 years, how long would it have taken the two together?

Aquality characteristic of new iphone x made at the amsterdam plant at apple computers has a manufacturing specification (in mm) of 0.200 +/- .07. historical data indicates that if the quality characteristic takes on values greater than 0.27 or smaller than 0.13 the component fails at a cost of20.19. based on these data: determine the taguchi loss function (must show work) calculate an estimated loss for a quality characteristic of .30 calculate an estimated loss for quality characteristic of .40.