STA 222

Exercise 4

1. An electrical firm manufactures light bulbs that have a lifetime that is approximately
normally distributed with a mean of 8000 hours and a standard deviation of 40 hours.
Test the hypothesis that = 800 hours against the alternative 800 hours if a
random sample of 30 bulbs has an average life of 788 hours. Use a 0.04 level of
significance. (Z = -1.643 Do not reject H0)

2. A taxi driver claims to make an average of $12.00 on each fare, but the Taxation
Office believes that average is higher than that. To test the drivers claim, the
Taxation Office takes a random sample of 30 fares. The amounts that the taxi driver
made on the fare in the sample had a mean of $13.30 with a standard deviation of
2.50. Test the drivers claim at = 0.01. (Z = 2.848 Reject
H 0)

3. In a research report by Richard H. Weindruch of the UCLA Medical School, it is

claimed that mice with an average life span of 32 months will live to be about 40
months old when 40% of the calories in their food are replaced by vitamins and
protein. Is there any reason to believe that the average life span is less than 40
months if 64 mice that are placed on this diet have an average life of 38 months with
a standard deviation of 5.8 months? Use a 0.025 level of significance.
(Z = -2.76 reject H0)

4. A random sample of n = 2000 observations from a binomial population produced

r = 1238
(a) If your research hypothesis is that is greater than 0.6, what should you choose for
your alternative hypothesis? Your null hypothesis?
(b) Does your alternative hypothesis in part (a) imply a one- or two-tailed statistical test?
(c) Do the data provide sufficient evidence to indicate that is greater than 0.60? Test
using = 0.05. ( Z = 1.734 Reject
H 0)

5. The service manager of an appliance sales company asserts that 6% of the appliances
sold are returned to the service department for repair under the warranty, and the sales
manager believes that this claim is too high. Test the service managers assertion at
the 0.05 level of significance if 56 out of a random sample of 1000 appliance sales are
returned to the service department for repair under the warranty.
(Z = -0.533 Do not reject H0)

6. A publisher of a news magazine has found through past experience that 60% of its
subscribers renew their subscriptions. Because it was heading into a business
recession, the company decided to randomly select a small sample of subscribers and,
via telephone questioning to determine whether they planned to renew their
subscriptions. One hundred eight of a sample of 200 indicates that they planned to
renew their subscriptions.
(a) If you want to detect whether the data provide sufficient evidence of a reduction in
the proportion of all subscribers who will renew, what will you choose for your
alternative hypothesis? Null hypothesis?
(b) Conduct the test using a 5% level of significance. State the results.
(Z = -1.732 reject H0)
(c) How many subscribers would have to be included in the publishers sample in order
to estimate to within 0.01, with 95% confidence?
(9220)
7. A coin is thrown 500 times and 267 heads are obtained. Test whether the coin is
unbiased, using a 10% significance level. (Z = 1.521 do not reject H0)
8. A drug company tested a new pain-relieving drug on a random sample of 100
headache suffers. Of these, 75% said that their headache was relieved by the drug.
With the currently marketed drug, 65% of users say that their headache is relieved by
it. Test, at the 4% level, whether the new drug will have a greater proportion of
satisfied users. (Z = 2.097 reject H0)

9. A study was made of the number of gallons of gasoline purchased by customers for
their automobiles at two gasoline stations. If 35 randomly selected purchases made in
station A average 9.6 gallons with standard deviation of 1.75, and 51 randomly
selected sales at station B average 8.3 gallons with a standard deviation of 2.18, test
at the level of significance 0.01, whether the difference between these two sample
means is significant. (Z = 3.06 reject H0)

10. To collect information for a water conservation drive on a college campus, sample
data are collected which show that 50 showers taken by students in dormitory A used,
on the average, 36 gallons of water with standard deviation of 2.5 gallons, while 50
showers taken by students in dormitory B used, on the average, 35.5 gallons of water
with standard deviation of 2.3 gallons. Test whether students in dormitory A use
more water than dormitory B. Test at = 5%. (Z =-1.041 do not reject H0)

11. Bottles of wine are supposed to contain 750ml of wine. An inspector takes a random
sample of six bottles of wine and determines the volumes of their contents, correct to
the nearest half milliliter. Her results are:
747.0, 751.5, 752.0, 747.5, 748.0, 748.0
Determine whether these results provide significant evidence, at the 5% level, that the
population mean is less than 750ml. (t = -1.130 Do not reject H0)

12. Following is a random sample of grades achieved on a statistics examination by nine

men students in a very large class and a random sample of grades achieved in the
same examination by six women students:
Men students: 79 88 64 91 83 66 89 74 68
Women students: 70 51 82 72 90 61
Use the level of significance of 1% to test whether the difference between the means
of these two samples is significant. (t = 1.112 Do not reject H0)

13. The management of Discount Furniture, a chain of discount furniture stores in Nilai,
designed an incentive plan for salespeople. To evaluate this innovative plan, 12
salespeople were selected at random, and their weekly incomes before and after the
plan were recorded.
Weekly income Weekly income
Salesperso Before After Salesperso Before After
n n
Tan C W RM320 RM340 Khoo K C RM625 RM631
Lee M Y 290 285 Chong C S 560 560
Khoo W L 421 475 Chuah C S 360 365
Leong S S 510 510 Toh Y H 431 431
Lee C C 210 210 Kan K M 506 525
Chan K L 402 500 Mong Y K 505 619
Was there a significant increase in the salespersons income due to the innovative
incentive plan? Use the 0.05 significance level to test the doubt.
(t = 2.20 t reject H0)
14. A machine produces metal rods used in an automobile suspension system. A random
sample of 9 rods is selected, and the diameter (in mm) of each rod is measured. The
results are:

8.24 8.19 8.26 8.21 8.20 8.23 8.25 8.20 8.26

(i) Find the unbiased estimates of the mean and variance of the diameters of the
rod. (8.2267, 0.00075)
(ii) Test at = 10% that the true mean is 8.0. (24.830 Reject H0)

15. A random sample of 60 suspension helmets used by motorcycle riders was subjected
to an impact test, and 15 of the helmets were damaged in the test. Test at a
significance level of 3% that the true percentage of the helmets damaged is at most
30%. (-0.845 Do not reject H0)

16. A shoe company intends to test material for the soles shoes. A random sample of
eight pairs of shoes is selected for the test. For each pair of shoes, the new material is
placed on one shoe and the old material is placed on the other shoe. After a period of
wear testing and mechanical abrasion, the wear is measured on a ten-point scale
(higher is better) with the following results.

Pair number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Old material 5 8 4 7 6 6 4 3
New material 4 7 5 9 8 7 2 5

At 5% level of significance, is there enough evidence to conclude that the average

wear of the new material is better than that of the old material?
(-0.8819 Do not reject H0)

17. A training was conducted to determine whether 6 weeks of training is effective in

reducing the cholesterol levels of the participants. A treatment group consisting of 12
people was given lectures thrice a week on how to reduce their cholesterol level.
Another group of 15 people were randomly selected as a control group. All
participants cholesterol level was recoded at the end of the 6 weeks and the results
were as following:

Treatment group Control group

Mean 156.33 170
Variance 1094.95 947

Can we conclude, at 5% significance level, that the 6 weeks training program is

effective in decreasing the cholesterol level of the participants?
(-1.1095 Do not reject H0)

18. A new dietary product claims in its advertising that the use of the product for two
months will result in an average weight loss of at least 5 pounds. Eight persons
randomly chosen used the product for 2 months, and the results were as following.

Person Final weight (lb) Initial weight (lb)

1 146 150
2 193 198
3 161 165
4 183 187
 5 195 201
6 141 143
7 195 201
8 150 156
Can we conclude that the claim of the advertisement is false at 1% significance level?
(-19.337 Reject H0)

19. A city expressway using four lanes in each direction was studied to see whether
drivers preferred to drive on the inside lanes. A total of 1000 automobiles were
observed during the heavy early-morning traffic, and their respective lanes were
recorded. The results were as follows:
Lane 1 2 3 4
Observed count 294 276 238 192

Do the data present sufficient evidence to indicate that some lanes are preferred over
others? Test using = 0.05. ( 24.48, Reject
H 0)

20. A 1985 Gallup survey portrays United States entrepreneurs as the mavericks
dreamers, and loners whose rough edges and uncompromising need to do it their own
way set them in sharp contrast to senior executives in major American corporations.
One of the many questions put to a sample of n = 100 entrepreneurs about their job
characteristics work habits, social activities, etc. concerned the origin of the car they
personally drive most frequently. The responses given in the table were obtained.

United States Europe Japan

45 46 9

Do these data provide evidence of a difference in the preference of entrepreneurs for

the cars of the United States, Europe, and Japan? Test using = 0.05.
(26.66, Reject
H 0)

21. Test the null hypothesis of independence of the two classifications A and B, of the 3
3 contingency table shown below. Test using = 0.05.
B
B1 B2 B3
A1 40 72 42
A A2 63 53 70
A3 31 38 30
(12.327 Reject H0)

22. A random sample of 350 inexpensive electronic toys which are produced in Hong
Kong, Japan, and Korea are examined by an importer in the United States to
determine the quality of the toys, with the following results:

Geographical location
Hong Kong Japan Korea
Acceptable 104 64 79
Imperfect, but salable 29 17 24
Defective 16 10 7
 Test at the level of significance = 0.01 whether geographical location of the
producer and quality of the toys are independent (no relationship).
(1.922, Do not reject
H 0)

23. The LDP Expressway, which has 5 lanes after the tollgate, was studied to see whether
drivers preferred to drive on the inside lanes. A total of 921 automobiles were
observed during the early morning traffic, and the number of cars on respective lanes
were recorded. The results were as follows:

Lane 1 2 3 4 5
Observed count 96 154 275 225 171

Do the data provide sufficient evidence at 5% level of significance to indicate that

some lanes are preferred over others? ( 101.93, Reject
H 0)

24. A tile company was interested in comparing the fraction of new house builders
favoring three types of tiles as floor coverings for their houses in three different areas
of Klang Valley, i.e. Subang Jaya, Puchong and Petaling Jaya. A survey was
conducted and the data were as follows:

Area
Floor Coverings Subang Jaya Puchong Petaling Jaya
Type I 224 165 36
Type II 196 152 44
Type III 80 83 20

Test at 5% level of significance whether there is any association between types of

tiles used and the areas concerned. (5.41, Do not reject H0)

25. A die is tossed 180 times with the following results:

Number 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 27 36 36 31 28 22

Is this a balanced die? Conduct a test of goodness-of-fit at 1% significance level.

(5, Do not reject
H0)

26. In an experiment to study the dependence of hypertension on smoking habits, the

following data were taken on 180 individuals:

Nonsmoker Moderate smoker Heavy smoker

Hypertension 15 36 35
No hypertension 43 27 24

Test the hypothesis that the presence or absence of hypertension is independent of

smoking habits. Use a 5% significance level. (16.53, Reject H0)

27. A factory employs there quality control inspectors, each of whom is asked to keep a
record of the number of items he tests, and those he rejects, in the course of a day.
The results are as follows.
 Accepted Rejected
Inspector A 75 15
Inspector B 83 19
Inspector C 92 16

Do the inspectors differ significantly in the proportion of items they reject? Use =
5%. (0.549, Do not reject H0)
28. An anthropologist is researching into hereditary factors in a certain country, and has
formulated a theory that overall, 40% of the population is fair-haired, 10% is red-
haired and the remainder is dark-haired. A sample from one particular tribe, however,
contain 65 fair-haired, 19 red-haired and 66 dark-haired. Are these proportions
consistent with the theory? Use = 5%. (2.5633, Do not reject H0)

29. The number of breakdowns that have occurred during the last 100 shifts is as follows.

Number of breakdowns per shift 0 1 2 3 4 5

Frequency:
Expected number of shifts 14 27 27 18 9 5
Actual number of shifts 10 23 25 22 10 10

Show whether the manager is justified in his claim that the difference between the
number of actual and expected breakdowns is due to chance. It has been customary
to use a significance level of 0.05. (7.88360, Do not reject H0)

30. Two factories using materials purchased from the same supplier and closely
controlled to an agreed specification produce output for a given period classified into
three quality grades, A, B and C, as follows.

Output in tones
A B C
Factory:
X 42 13 33
Y 20 8 25

Do these figures show a significant difference at the 5% level?

(1.5052, Do not reject H0)

31. Seedlings are grown without fertilizer or with one of two kinds of fertilizer. After a
certain period of time, a seedlings growth is classified into one of three categories, as
shown in the following table.
Growing conditions
Seedlings growth No fertilizer Fertilizer A Fertilizer B
Strong growth 142 181 190
Medium growth 111 174 95
Dead 48 63 71
Test at 1% significance level whether there is an association between the seedlings
growth and types of fertilizer applied. ( 2 = 19.4635. Reject H0)

32. The table below shows the number of visitors of a university library during a week.

Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Number of visitors 108 120 148 140 84
 Test at 5% significance level whether the number of visitors is independent of the day
of the week. ( 2 = 21.867. Reject H0)

33. In a survey concerned with changes in working procedures, the following table was
produced.

Opinion on changes in working procedures

In favor Opposed Undecided
Skilled workers 21 36 30
Unskilled workers 48 26 19
Test, at level of significance of 5%, that the opinion on working procedure is
independent of the type of workers. ( 2 = 14.4636. Reject H0)

34. A manufacturer of nickel-hydrogen batteries randomly selects 100-nickel plates for

test cells and found that 12 of the plates have blistered. Does the result provide
sufficient evidence to conclude that less than 15% of all plates blister under such
circumstances? Test at 1% significance level. (Z = -0.8402. Do not reject H0)

35. Eleven BMAUH students were given a test in Quantitative Methods. They were
given a months tuition and a second test was held at the end of it. Do the marks give
evidence that the students have benefited by the extra coaching? Test at 1% level of
significance.
Students 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Test 1 23 20 19 18 20 18 17 23 16 19 21
Test 2 24 19 22 10 20 22 20 20 23 20 18
(t = -0.2955. Do not reject H0)

36. The following table summarizes data on compression strength (in pounds) for a
sample of 12-oz aluminum cans filled with orange drinks and another sample filled
with cola drinks.
Beverage Sample size Sample mean Sample standard deviation
Cola 45 1800 63
Orange 50 1750 70
Does the data suggest that average compression strength of cola drinks is higher than
that of the orange drinks at the
(i) 1% significance level? (Z = 3.6642. Reject H0)
(ii) 10% significance level? (Reject H0)

37. A company would like to estimate the length of time required to complete a service
call. The following sample data, corrected to the nearest minute, were obtained.
48 51 28 66 81 36 40 59 50
(i) Estimate the population mean and variance for the length of time to complete
a service call. (51, 259.25)

(ii) It is believed that the true mean time to complete a service call is at most 50
minutes. Test at 5% significance level whether the belief is false.
(t =0.1863. Do not reject H0)

38. Liquid salad dressing is dispensed into bottles by a filling machine. The machine is
known to dispense, on average, 230g of salad dressing per bottle with a standard
deviation of 4.25g. The production manager has taken a random sample of 50 bottles
from a recent batch and found that the sample mean is 228.7g. The manager is
 concerned if the filling machine is now dispensing significantly less salad dressing
into the bottles. Test at 5% significance level. (Z = -2.1629. Reject H0)

39. A dispute exists between workers on two production lines. The workers on
production line A complained that they receive less pay than those on production line
B. The company investigates the complaints by examining the pay of 70 workers
from each production line. The results were as follows:

Production line
Sample statistics A B
Mean $393.00 $394.50
Standard deviation $6.00 $7.50
Are workers on production line A received significantly less pay than those on
production line B? Test at = 5%. (Z = -1.3066. Do not reject H0)

40. The Imaginex Co. Ltd., owns a factory that produces sulphuric acid, used primarily in
automobile batteries. Because of changing conditions, the plants output is quite
variable. The companys managing director has observed that the output is normally
distributed with a mean of 8200 litres per hour. He recently has been informed that
the government is considering a new law that would require him to alter the way in
which the chemical is manufactured. Unsure about whether he should lobby against
the legislation, he undertakes an experiment. He reorganizes production facilities to
comply with the proposed law and observed that the hourly output for two working
days (16 hours). The data are shown below.
8283 8121 7905 8097 7969 8101 8069 8240
8410 8483 8510 7480 8097 8237 7682 8076
Do these data indicate that the new legislation will reduce output? Test at 5%
significance level. (t = -1.3309. Do not reject H0)

41. The times taken (in minutes) to complete a task of a particular type were recorded for
a sample of eight employees before and after a period of training. The data collected
are as follows.
Time taken to complete task
Employee Before training After training
1 15 13
2 14 15
3 18 15
4 14 13
5 15 13
6 17 16
7 13 14
8 12 12
(i) At 10% significance level, test whether the training is effective.
(t = 1.6977. Reject H0)

(ii) State any assumption that you might have used in your test.
(The differences are normally distributed)

42. The manufacturer of a certain brand of cigarette claims that its cigarettes contain less
than 15mg of tar content per cigarette, on average. A random check on the tar
content, xmg of 10 cigarettes revealed the following:
x = 147.8 x2 = 2186.2
Assume that the population sampled is normally distributed.
 (i) Calculate the unbiased estimates of the mean and variance of tar content of
the cigarettes. (14.78 & 0.190666667)

(ii) Test, at 5% significance level, whether we can infer that the claim of the
manufacturer is true.
(Do not reject H0..)

43. A pharmaceutical company claims that not more than 2% of the vitamin bottles
produced are incorrectly sealed. A random check on a sample of 200 vitamin bottles
revealed that 6 of them are incorrectly sealed. Test at 5% significance level, whether
the claim is false.
(Do not reject H0..)

44. A doctor in a private hospital wishes to evaluate two new treatments for
arthritis. He randomly selected two groups of arthritis patients and assigned
them to the two treatments randomly. The time until the patient experienced
relief after the treatment was then recorded.
Treatment Number of arthritis patients Sample mean Sample variance
A 8 53.0 385.14
B 10 49.6 455.60
Assuming that the time taken for the patients to get relief after the treatment are
normally distributed with equal variances, test, at 5% significance level, whether we
can infer that treatment B is better than treatment A?
(Do not reject H0..)

45. An experiment was done on six randomly selected cars to compare the fuel
consumption of two different car engines. The table below shows the distance
traveled on 1 gallon of gasoline.
Car 1 2 3 4 5 6
Engine A 14.8 21.3 20.2 21.2 16.4 29.3
Engine B 14.7 23.4 23.4 19.7 18.2 28.7
At 10% significance level, test whether we can infer that engine A gives a lower mean
mileage compared to that of engine B.
(Do not reject H0..)

46. The quality officer of a company has randomly selected 60 plastic bottles from the
production line and found that 15 had scratch defects.

(i) Construct a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of bottles with scratch
defects. (0.1404, 0.360)

(ii) The manager of the company claims that less than 30% of the plastic bottles
had scratch effects. Base on the sample result, test at 10% significance level,
whether we can infer that the claim is true. (Z = -0.845 Do not reject H0.)

47. A bakery advertises that the chocolate cookies produced had 30 chocolate chips per
cookie, on average. A random sample of 6 cookies is selected and the number of
chocolate chips is counted. The results are
38 24 18 21 35 23
(i) Calculate the unbiased estimates of the mean and variance of number of
chocolate chips per cookie. (26.5, 65.1)
(ii) Based on the sample result, test, using a 5% significance level, whether the
bakery has overstated the mean number of chocolate chips per cookie.
 (t = -1.06256 Do not reject H0)

48. A factory uses two machines, A and B, to fill ice-cream containers. Random samples
of containers are taken from the two machines and the weight of each container
(measured in oz) is determined. The results are as following:

Number of containers Sample mean Sample variance

Machine A 20 128 1.85
Machine B 15 126 2.89
Assuming that the samples are drawn form two populations with equal variances. At
5% significance level, can we infer that there is a difference in the mean weight of the
containers processed by the two machines?
(t = 3.8683 Reject H0)

49. A road safety campaign was conducted in order to reduce the number of car accidents
in a big city. The table below shows the number of car accidents for the first six
months of year 2003 (before the campaign) and year 2004 (after the campaign).

Month January February March April May June

2003 25 38 22 28 15 36
2004 20 29 35 18 32 27
Test, at 10% significance level, whether we can infer that the campaign is effective in
reducing the number of car accidents. (t = 0.1004 Do not reject H0)
50. A teacher suspects that male students perform better than the females in a
science subject. A random sample of 12 male students and 15 females,
respectively, was taken and the information is summarized in the table below.

Males Females
Sample size 12 15
Sample mean marks 76 64
Sample variance 103 122

Assume that samples are taken from populations that are normally distributed. Test
using = 5%. (2.9065 Reject H0)

51. Eight randomly selected bags of tin ore are taken from a smelter. The
percentage impurities of the ore found in the sample are:
3.6, 3.9, 4.5, 3.8, 4.4, 4.9, 4.2, 3.8
Test whether the average percentage impurities is higher than 4%, using a 10%
significance level. (0.88273 Do not reject H0)

52. In a modern city, 62% of the employees commute to work by public transport.
A recent survey among 200 employees in the city indicated that only 60% of
them commute to work by public transport. Test if the proportion of
employees who commute by public transport has been reduced significantly,
using a 5% significance level. (-0.5827 Do not reject H0)

53. The following table summarizes the Location of cerebral tumours in 141
neurosurgical patients:

Type of tumour
 Location of Benign Malignant Others
tumour
Frontal Lobes 23 9 6
Temporal Lobes 21 4 3
Elsewhere 34 24 17

Perform an appropriate test at 10% level of significance for the above data.
(7.844, Reject H0)

54. Peanuts are packed into packets by two machines. A sample of 40 packets
from machine A gives a mean of 180 g and standard deviation 14 g. Another
sample of 40 packets from machine B gives a mean of 175 g and standard
deviation 10 g. Test if packets from machine A are significantly heavier than
those from machine B, using a 3% significance level.
(1.8380 Do not reject H0)

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