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The document contains 10 hypothesis testing problems related to statistics. The problems cover topics like comparing population proportions, means of funds, website access times, claims of customer behavior, machine filling weights, number of text messages, and driver demographics. The problems provide sample data and ask to test hypotheses at various significance levels.

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Performance Task 4.1

The document contains 10 hypothesis testing problems related to statistics. The problems cover topics like comparing population proportions, means of funds, website access times, claims of customer behavior, machine filling weights, number of text messages, and driver demographics. The problems provide sample data and ask to test hypotheses at various significance levels.

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FINGFISHER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND FINANCE

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY


FOURTH QUARTER: PERORMANCE TASK NO. 4.1

Test the following hypothesis.


1. A committee that is studying employer-employee relations proposed that each
employee would rate his or her immediate supervisor, and in turn the supervisor would
rate each employee. To test if the reactions to the survey for office and plant personnel
were the same, 120 office personnel and 160 plant personnel were selected at random.
Seventy-eight of the office personnel and 90 of the plant personnel were in favor of the
proposal. Use the 0.05 level of significance to test the hypothesis that the population
proportions are equal.
2. A financial planner wants to compare the yield of income and growth mutual funds.
Fifty thousand dollars is invested in each of a sample of 35 income and 40 growth funds.
The mean increase for a two-year period for the income funds is $900. For the growth
funds, the mean increase is $875. Income funds have a sample standard deviation of $35;
growth funds have a sample standard deviation of $45. Assume that the population
standard deviations are equal. At the 0.05 significance level, is there a difference in the
mean yields of the two funds?
3.A company is researching the effectiveness of a new website design to decrease the time
to access a website. Five website users were randomly selected and their times (in
seconds) to access the website with the old and new designs were recorded. The results
follow.

Let α = 0.05. Is the mean time to access the new website design shorter than the old one?
4. When can a paired t-test be used to test a hypothesis of no difference between
population means?
5. Provide two examples when a paired t-test can be used to test a hypothesis of no
difference between population means.
6. A certain soft drink bottler claims that less than 16% of its customers drink another
brand of soft drink on a regular basis. A random sample of 100 customers yielded 23 who
did in fact drink another brand of soft drink on a regular basis. Do these sample results
support the bottler’s claim? (Use a level of significance of 0.025.)
7. A machine is set to fill a small bottle with 9.0 grams of medicine. A sample of eight
bottles revealed the following amounts (grams) in each bottle.
9.2 8.7 8.9 8.6 8.8 8.5 8.7
9.0

At the .01 significance level, can we conclude that the mean weight is less than 9.0 grams?
(a) State the null hypothesis and the alternate hypothesis.
(b) How many degrees of freedom are there?
(c) Give the decision rule.
(d) Compute the value of t. What is your decision regarding the null
hypothesis?
(e) Estimate the p-value.
8. A Washington, D.C., “think tank” announces the typical teenager sent 50 text messages
per day in 2009. To update that estimate, you phone a sample of teenagers and ask them
how many text messages they sent the previous day. Their responses were:

51 175 47 49 44 54 14 5 203 21
59 42 100

At the .05 level, can you conclude that the mean number is greater than 50? Estimate the
p-value and describe what it tells you.

9. Suppose prior elections in a certain state indicated it is necessary for a candidate for
governor to receive at least 80 percent of the vote in the northern section of the state to be
elected. The incumbent governor is interested in assessing his chances of returning to
office and plans to conduct a survey of 2,000 registered voters in the northern section of
the state. Using the hypothesis-testing procedure, assess the governor’s chances of
reelection.

10. The National Safety Council reported that 52 percent of American turnpike drivers are
men. A sample of 300 cars traveling southbound on the New Jersey Turnpike yesterday
revealed that 170 were driven by men. At the .01 significance level, can we conclude that a
larger proportion of men were driving on the New Jersey Turnpike than the national
statistics indicate?

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