Assignment

1. Let X be N(μ,10). To test H0: μ ≤ 60 against H1: μ > 60, use a rejection region of the form x  c.
Determine the approximate sample size as well as the value of ‘c’ so that the probability of
committing type I error is 0.05 and the probability of committing type II error when μ = 65 is also
0.05. [n = 44; c = 62.5]
2. A new cure has been developed for a certain type of cement that results in a compressive strength
of 5000 kilograms per square centimetre and a standard deviation of 120. To test the hypothesis
that μ ≥ 5000 against the alternative that μ < 5000, a random sample of 50 pieces of cement are
tested. The critical region is defined to be x  4970. Calculate the probability of committing a
type I error. Evaluate β for the alternatives μ = 4970 and μ = 4960. [α = 0.03836; β = 0.5, 0.2776]
3. A company packages detergent powder in 2-kilogram boxes. If the mean weight could be lowered
the company could save a substantial amount of money every year. Adjustments were made in
the filling equipment. Then a random sample of size 25 boxes yielded an average weight of 2.045
kilograms with a standard deviation of 0.0213 kilogram. Assuming the population to be normally
distributed:
a. Formulate and test at 5% level of significance, the appropriate null and alternative
hypotheses.
b. If you were to write the rejection region as “Reject H0 if x ≤k”, what value of k would you
use? [k = 1.9927]
c. If you had a sample of size 50 with sample statistics as above, would your analysis and
conclusion be different?
4. There was a persistent complaint by the users of a facility that the waiting time had been
excessively high. This group of users of the facility could not afford an average waiting time of more
than ten minutes. In order to reduce the waiting time an additional server was provided and the
waiting time in the nearest integer minutes experienced by 30 randomly selected customers in the
modified facility was noted as below:
Waiting Time (in minutes)

9 2 14 6 0 14 2 1 20 6

7 0 0 14 39 10 4 24 4 6

2 16 9 4 21 0 11 0 1 2

Test if the average waiting time in the modified system has come down below ten minutes or not
at 5% level of significance.
[Failed to reject H0, Test statistic = -1.055, p-value = 0.1500]
5. A market researcher intends to conduct a nationwide survey for an automobile dealer concerning
car repairs. One of the questions to be included in survey is the following: “What was the cost of
all repairs performed on your car last year?” In order to determine the sample size necessary for
this survey, he needs to obtain an estimate of the population standard deviation. Using his past
experience and judgement, he estimates that standard deviation of population is $200. Suppose
that a pilot study of 25 randomly selected auto owners indicates a sample standard deviation of
$237.52. At 5% level of significance is there sufficient evidence to conclude that the population
standard deviation is different from $200?
[Failed to reject H0, chi-square = 33.85]
6. For a random sample of 12 bulbs of one brand the mean bulb life is 3400 hours with a sample
standard deviation of 240 hours. For the second brand of bulbs the mean bulb life for sample of 8
bulbs is 2800 hours with standard deviation of 210 hours. The distribution of bulb life is assumed
to be approximately normal. Can variances of two populations be assumed to be equal at 10%
level of significance.
[Failed to reject H0, F = 1.31]
7. Historically, the average height of males in the freshman class of a certain college has been 174.5
centimetres with a standard deviation of 6.9 centimetres. Is there reason to believe that there has
been a change in the average height if a random sample of 50 males in the present freshman class
has an average height of 177.2 centimetres? Use a 0.02 level of significance.
[Reject H0, Test statistic = 2.77, p-value = 0.0056]
8. At a certain college it is estimated that fewer than 25% of the students have cars on campus. Does
this seem to be a valid estimate if in a random sample of 90 college students, 28 are found to have
cars? Use a 0.05 level of significance.
[Failed to reject H0, Test statistic = 1.34, p-value = 0.0901]
9. For a Christmas and New Year’s week, the National Safety Council estimated that 500 people would
be killed and 25,000 injured in road accidents. The NSC claimed that approximately 50% of the
accidents would be caused by drunk driving. A sample of 120 accidents showed that 67 were
caused by drunk driving. Use these data to test the NSC’s claim with α = 0.05.
[Failed to reject H0, Test statistic = 1.278, p-value = 0.20124]
10. A quality characteristic of interest for a tea-bag-filling process is the weight of the tea in the
individual bags. If the bags are under filled, two problems arise. First, customers may not be able
to brew the tea to be so strong as they wish. Second, the company may be in violation of the truth-
in-labelling laws. For this product, the label weight on the package indicates that, on an average,
there are ‘X’ grams of tea in a bag. If the mean amount of tea in a bag exceeds the label weight,
the company is giving away product. Getting an exact amount of tea in a bag is problematic
because of variation in the temperature and humidity inside the factory, differences in the density
of the tea, and extremely fast filling operation of the machine (approximately 170 bags per
minute). The data given below provide the weight, in grams, of a sample of 50 tea bags produced
in one hour by a single machine:
5.65 5.44 5.42 5.40 5.53 5.34 5.54 5.45 5.52 5.41

5.57 5.40 5.53 5.54 5.55 5.62 5.56 5.46 5.44 5.51

5.47 5.40 5.47 5.61 5.53 5.32 5.67 5.29 5.49 5.55

5.77 5.57 5.42 5.58 5.58 5.50 5.32 5.50 5.53 5.58

5.61 5.45 5.44 5.25 5.56 5.63 5.50 5.57 5.67 5.36

From this sample data, the management of the company is interested to ascertain:
a) The point estimates of the label weight ‘X’, the standard deviation of label weight, and the
proportion of bags which have a weight of 5.5 gram or less in the population.
[x-bar = 5.5014, s = 0.1058, p-bar = 0.48]
b) The 95% confidence interval for label weight ‘X’, the standard deviation of label weight,
and the proportion of bags which have a weight of 5.5 gram or less in the population.
[mean: 5.47133 to 5.53147; std dev: 0.0884 to 0.1318; proportion: 0.3415 to 0.6185]
c) The sample size if the margin of error allowed for interval estimate of population
proportion in part (b) is 2% of the actual population proportion.
[n = 9604]