Pierre's Motorized Pirogues and Mudboats is setting up an acceptance sampling plan for the special air cleaners he manufactures for his boats. His specifications, and the resulting plan, are shown on the POM for Windows output below. Pierre wants acceptance sampling to remove ALL defects from his production of air cleaners. Explain carefully why this won't happen.

Acceptance sampling is not intended to remove all defects, nor will it. Consider a lot with a defect rate of 0.005 in this example. If the sample is representative, the lot will pass inspection-which means that no one will inspect the lot for defects. The defects that were present before sampling are still there. Generally, acceptance sampling passes some lots and rejects others. Defects can only be removed from those lots that fail inspection.