Assignment 4- Hypothesis testing

1. A textile fiber manufacturer is investigating a new drapery yarn, which the company claims has a
mean thread elongation of 12 kilograms with a standard deviation of 0.5 kilograms. The company
wishes to test the hypothesis H0 : =12 against H1 : <12 . Find the boundary of the critical region
if the type I error is = 0.05 and n=16. [Ans: 11.793
]
2. In Question 1, calculate the P-value if the observed statistic is

. [Ans: 0.0135]

3. A manufacturer is interested in the output voltage of a power supply used in a PC. Output voltage
is assumed to be normally distributed, with standard deviation 0.25 volts, and the manufacturer
wishes to test H0 : =5 volts against H1 : 5 volts, using n=8 units.
(a) The acceptance region is 4.85

. Find the value of .

(b) Find the power of the test for detecting a true mean output voltage of 5.1 volts.
(c) Rework question 3(a) and (b) when the sample size is 16 and the boundaries of the
acceptance region do not change. What impact does the change in sample size have on the
results of part (a) and (b). [Ans: =0.0164, power = 0.21186]
4. In Question 3, calculate the P-value if the observed statistic is

.[Ans: 0.0007]

5. Supercavitation is a propulsion technology for undersea vehicles that can greatly increase their
speed. It occurs above approximately 50 meters per second, when pressure drops sufficiently to
allow the water to dissociate into water vapour, forming a gas bubble behind the vehicle. When
the gas bubble completely encloses the vehicle, supercavitation is said to occur. Eight tests were
conducted on a scale model of an undersea vehicle in a towing basin with the average observed
speed
meters per second. Assume that speed is normally distributed with known
standard deviation = 4 meters per second.
(a) Test the hypothesis H0 : =100 versus H1 : < 100 using = 0.05. [Ans: zo = 1.56 >- 1.65 do
not reject Ho]
(b) What is the P-value for the test in part (a)? [Ans: 0.94]
(c) Compute the power of the test if the true mean speed is as low as 95 meters per second. [Ans:
0.97062]
(d) What sample size would be required to detect a true mean speed as low as 95 meters per
second if we wanted the power of the test to be at least 0.85? [Ans: n=5]
6. For the hypothesis test H0 : =7 against H1 : 7 with variance unknown and n=20, approximate
the P-value for each of the following test statistics.
(a) t0 = 2.05
(b) t0 = -1.84
(c) t0 = 0.4
[Ans: 0.05
]
[Ans: 0.05
]
[Ans: 0.5
]

7. The sodium contain of thirty 300-gram boxes of organic corn flakes was determined. The data (in
milligrams) are as follows:
131.15, 130.69, 130.91, 129.54, 129.64, 128.77, 130.72, 128.33, 128.24,
129.65, 130.14, 129.29, 128.71, 129.00, 129.39, 130.42, 129.53, 130.12,
129.78, 130.92, 131.15, 130.69, 130.91, 129.54, 129.64, 128.77, 130.72,
128.33, 128.24, 129.65.
Can you support a claim that mean sodium content of this brand of cornflakes differs from 130
miligram? Use = 0.05. Find the P-value.

8. Consider the test H0 : 2 = 5 against H1 : 2 <5 . approximate the P-value for each of the following
test statistics.
(a) 2 = 25.2 and n = 20
(b) 2 = 4.2 and n = 15
[Ans: 0.5
]
[Ans: 0.005
]
9. A research engineer for a tire manufacturer is investigating tire life for a new rubber compound
and has built 16 tires and tested them to end-of-life in a road test. The sample standard deviation
was 3645.94 km.
(a) can you conclude using =0.05 that the standard deviation of tire life is less than 4000 km?
Use the P-value method. [Ans: 2=0.23<26.3 do not reject H0 , 0.1< p-value< 0.4 ]
(b) Explain how you could answer question in part (a) by constructing 95% one-sided confidence
interval for . [Ans:
]

Tutorial 4
1. The life in hours of a battery is known to be approximately normally distributed, with standard
deviation =1.25 hours. A random sample of 10 batteries has a mean life
hours.
(a) Is there evidence to support the claim that battery life exceeds 40 hours? Use =0.05. [Ans:
zo = 1.26 < 1.65 do not reject Ho]
(b) What is the P-value for the test in part (a)? [Ans:0.1038]
(c) What is the -error for the test in part (a) if the true mean life is 42 hours? [Ans: =0.000325]
(d) What sample size would be required to ensure that does not exceed 0.10 if the true mean
life is 44 hours? [Ans: n=1]
2. For the hypothesis test H0 : =5 against H1 : <5 with variance unknown and n=12, approximate
the P-value for each of the following test statistics.
(a) t0 = 2.05
(b) t0 = -1.84
(c) t0 = 0.4
[Ans: 0.95
]
[Ans: 0.025
]
[Ans: 0.6
]