INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS II

RESPONSE – WEEK 3
Q CLASS
1. When a robot welder is in adjustment, its mean time to perform its
task is 1.3250 minutes. Past experience has found the standard
deviation of the cycle time to be 0.0396 minutes. An incorrect
mean operating time can disrupt the efficiency of other activities
along the production line. For a recent random sample of 80 jobs,
the mean cycle time for the welder was 1.3229 minutes. Does the
machine appear to be in need of adjustment?
2. It is claimed that a vacuum cleaner expends 46 kWh per year.
A random sample of 12 homes indicates that vacuum cleaners
expend an average of 42 kWh per year with (sample) standard
deviation 11.9 kWh. At a 0.05 level of significance, does this
suggest that, on average, vacuum cleaner expend less than 46
kWh per year? Assume the population to be normally
distributed.
3. The administrator at your local hospital states that on weekends the
average wait time for emergency room visits is 15 minutes or less. Based
on discussions you have had with friends who have complained on how
long they waited to be seein in the ER over a weekend, you dispute the
administrator's claim. You decide to test you hypothesis. Over the course
of a few weekends you record the wait time for 40 randomly selected
patients. The average wait time for these 40 patients is 17 minutes with a
standard deviation of 4 minutes. Do you have enough evidence to
support your hypothesis that the average ER wait time exceeds 15
minutes? You opt to conduct the test at a 5% level of significance.
[4]
The management of Greenhill Golf Club wants to know the performance
of their members. They regularly monitor the golfers for their speed of
play. Suppose a random sample of golfers was taken in 2016 and another
sample of golfers was taken in 2017. From the sampling, the result of the
golfers sample mean in 2016 and 2017 respectively are 225 and 219. The
sample standard deviation is 20.25 for 2016, and 21.70 for 2017. 32
samples were taken in 2016, and 30 samples in the following year.

Based on the sample results, the management of Greenhill Golf Club

concludes that the average speed of play was different in both years.
Do an appropriate hypothesis test at the 0.10 significance level, to prove
whether the management made the right conclusion or not. Assume that
the populations of playing time for each year are approximately normally
distributed with equal variances.
[5]
ABC University has just graduated 250 college students in their
recent graduation. A sample of 180 college graduates were taken.
80 of them are women, and 100 of them are men, and each was
asked if they make more or less than $40,000 per year. The
following data was obtained.
More than $40,000 Less than $40,000 Total
Men 60 40 100
Women 30 50 80
Total 90 90 180
Are men more likely to make more than $40,000 than women?
Use significance level 0.05.
ASSIGNMENT
[1]
Maju Terus Company manufactures chips with 4 different flavors and has
increasing demand lately. The production engineers want to test a new
machine program that might increase the productivity (number of units
produced in an hour). Before he changed all the machine installation, he
conduct a test to the 12 machines, and the results are shown in table
below. The result represents the average hourly production output of 12
randomly sampled machines before and after the new program is
implemented.
Machine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Before 49 45 43 44 48 42 46 46 49 42 46 44
After 49 46 48 50 46 50 45 46 47 51 51 49
At the significance level of 5%, can the production engineers conclude that
the new machine program is effective in increasing the machine
productivity?
2. An e-commerce research company claims that 60% or more graduate
students have bought merchandise online. A consumer group is suspicious
of the claim and thinks that the proportion is lower than 60%. A random
sample of 80 graduate students show that only 22 students have ever
done so. Is there enough evidence to show that the true proportion is
lower than 60%? Conduct the test at 10% Type I error rate, and use the p-
value and rejection region approaches.
[3]
A recent study shows that injury rate in airport screeners is higher
compared to other work group. It is stated that the injury rate for
airport screeners was 29%, the number is so high compared to the
injury rate for the rest of the work group which is only 4.5%.
Assume the sample sizes required to obtain these percentages
were 75 and 125 respectively.
Determine if the sample sizes were large enough to allow the
distribution of the difference of the sample proportions to be
approximated with a normal distribution.
Conduct a hypothesis test to determine if the injury rate of airport
screeners is more than 10% larger than the other group. Use alpha
equals to 5%.