Estelle is making vanilla toffee from a new recipe. The mixture must be heated to the specified temperature and stirred constantly, otherwise it will burn. The recipe says to heat the sugar mixture to between 304°F and 310°F.

Question

What are the tolerance, nominal value, and trange of the sugar mixture? How to do this

Answer 1

The tolerance in this case would be the acceptable range of temperatures that the sugar mixture should reach before it is considered properly heated.

The nominal value would be the average or target temperature that the sugar mixture should be heated to, which in this case would be the midpoint of the specified range, (304°F + 310°F) / 2 = 307°F.

The range of the sugar mixture would be the difference between the maximum and minimum specified temperatures, which is 310°F - 304°F = 6°F.

So, the tolerance would be within the range of 304°F to 310°F, the nominal value is 307°F, and the range is 6°F.