Module -3- Testing of Hypothesis
Tutorial Sheet
1. A random sample of 105 recorded dates in India during the past year showed an
average lifespan of 71.8 yrs assuming a popular standard deviation of 8.2 years.
Does this seem to indicate that the mean lifespan today is greater than 70
years? use a 0.05 level of significance.
2. The manufacture of sport equipment has developed a new synthetic fishing
line that he claims as a means breaking strength of 9 Kgs with a standard
division of 0.6 Kg. Test the hypothesis that 𝜇 ≠ 9 Kgs if a random sample of
50 lines is tested and found to have a mean breaking strength of 7.9 kgs, use
a 0.01 level of significance.
3. In a liver management discussion it was brought up that workers at a certain
large plant take on the average 32.7 minutes to get to work if a random sample
of 70 workers took on the average 33.8 minutes with a standard deviation of 5.9
minutes can we reject the null hypothesis 𝜇 =32.7 in favour of the alternative
hypothesis 𝜇 >32.7 at the point 0.05 level of significance?
4. A Telecom service provider claims that individual customers pay on an
average 400 rs. per month with standard deviation of 25 rs. A random sample
of 50 customers’ bills during a given month is taken with a mean of 250 and
standard deviation of 15. What to say with respect to the claim made by the
service provider?
5. From the data available, it is observed that 400 out of 850 customers
purchased the groceries online. Can we say that most of the customers are
moving towards online shopping even for groceries?
6. It is found that 250 errors in the randomly selected 1000 lines of code from
Team A and 300 errors in 800 lines of code from Team B. Can we assume that
team B’s performance is superior to that of A.
7. An automobile tyre manufacturer claims that the average life of a particular
grade of tyre is more than 20,000 km. A random sample of 16 tyres is having
mean 22,000 km with a standard deviation of 5000 km.
8. Analyze the below data and tell whether you can conclude that smoking
causes cancer or not?
Category Diagnosed as Cancer Without Cancer Total
Smokers 400 300 700
Category Diagnosed as Cancer Without Cancer Total
Non-Smokers 300 500 800
Total 700 800 1500
9. It is claimed that the mean of the population is 67 at 5% level of significance.
Mean obtained from a random sample of size 100 is 64 with SD 3. Validate the
claim.
10. Following is the record of number of accidents took place during the various
days of the week. Can we conclude that accidents are independent of the day of
week?
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
120 140 200 90 140 120 180
11. A company claims that its tubes are superior to those of its main competitor. If
a studies show that a sample of 𝑛1 = 39 of its tubes as a mean lifetime of 645
hours of continuous use with a standard deviation of 26.8 hours, while a sample
of 𝑛2 = 39 tubes made by its main competitor at a mean lifetime of 638 hours of
continuous use with a standard deviation of 31.2 hours, does the substantiate the
claim at the 0.05 level of significance?
12. There is an assumption that there is no significant difference between boys and
girls with respect to intelligence. Tests are conducted on two groups and the
following are the observations. Validate the claim with 5% LoS (Level of
Significance)
Mean Standard Deviation Size
Girls 75 8 60
Boys 73 10 100
13. Mr Joseph is the owner of a small vehicle in a large town. He believes that
the smell of fresh baking will encourage customers to purchase goods from
his bakery. To investigate this belief he records the daily sales for 10 days,
when all the bakeries windows are open and the daily sales for another 10
days, when all the windows are closed the following sales in Rs are recorded.
Assuming that this data may be deemed to be random samples from normal
populations with the same variances investigate the bakers belief.
14. Among 157 African-American men, the mean systolic blood pressure was
146 mm Hg with a standard deviation of 27. We wish to know if on the basis
of these data, we may conclude that the mean systolic blood pressure for a
population of African-American is greater than 140. Use 𝛼=0.01.
15. The time taken by workers to perform a job is given below.
Method-1 20 16 26 27 23 22 -
Method-II 27 33 42 35 32 34 38
Test whether there is any significant difference between the variances in time distribution.
16. Two random samples gave the following:
n1=10, ∑(𝑥𝑖 − 𝑥̅)2 = 90
n2=12, ∑(𝑦𝑖 − 𝑦̅)2 = 108
Test whether the samples came from the populations with the same variance.
17. Two random samples drawn from two normal populations are:
Sample1 20 16 26 27 23 22 18 24 24 25
Sample2 27 33 42 35 32 34 38 28 41 43 30 37
Obtain estimates of the variances of the populations and test whether the populations have same
variances.
18. A school nurse wants to determine whether age is a factor in whether children choose a
healthy snack after school. She conducts a survey of 300 middle school students, with the
results below. Test at α=.05 the claim that the proportion who choose a healthy snack
differs by grade level.
Grade level 6th grade 7th grade 8th grade
Healthy snack 31 43 51
Unhealthy snack 69 57 49
19. Using the data below, test the claim that there is no difference in the colour preferences
of men and women. Use α=.05.
Preferred colour Red Yellow Blue
Men 21 34 45
Women 36 33 31
20. Nationwide the shares of carbon emissions for the year 2000 are transportation, 33%;
industry, 30%; residential, 20%; and commercial, 17%. A state hazardous materials
official wants to see if her state is the same. Her study of 300 emissions sources finds
transportation, 36%; industry, 31%; residential, 17%; and commercial, 16%. At a 0.05
significance level, can she claim the percentages are the same?
21. A researcher wants to know if there is a significant difference in the weight of newborn
babies between two hospitals in a city. The researcher randomly selects 20 newborns
from Hospital A and 20 newborns from Hospital B and records their weights in pounds.
The mean weight for the Hospital A group is 7.5, with a standard deviation of 0.8. The
mean weight for the Hospital B group is 7.1, with a standard deviation of 1.2. Is there a
significant difference between the two hospitals?
22. Average heart rate for Americans is 72 beats/minute. A group of 25 individuals
participated in an aerobics fitness program to lower their heart rate. After six months the
group was evaluated to identify is the program had significantly slowed their heart. The
mean heart rate for the group was 69 beats/minute with a standard deviation of 6.5. Was
the aerobics program effective in lowering heart rate?
23. A research team wants to investigate the usefulness of relaxation training for reducing
levels of anxiety in individuals experiencing stress. They identify 30 people at random
from a group of 100 who have "high stress" jobs. The 30 people are divided into two
groups. One group acts as the control group - they receive no training. The second group
of 15 receive the relaxation training. The subjects in each group are then given an
anxiety inventory. The summarized results appear below where higher scores indicate
greater anxiety.
Control Relaxation
X=30 X=26
S=6.63 S=6.20
n=15 n=15
24. A colleague of the investigators is problem 3 repeats the experiment but matches the
samples on the dimensions of sex and job type. The raw data appear below. Evaluate her
experiment using the criteria of p < .05. Assume it is a two tailed test.
Pairs 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Contr 38 40 35 36 35 32 31 30 28 26 24 21 18 34 22
Relax 35 32 30 34 30 32 28 27 22 22 18 17 17 25 21
25. Experience has shown that 20% of a manufactured product is of top quality. In one
day’s production of 400 articles, only 50 were found to be of top quality. Show that
either the production of the day chosen was not a representative sample or the
hypothesis of 20% was wrong. Based on the particular day’s production, find also
the 95% confidence limits for the percentage of top quality product.
26. A random sample of 100 students gave a mean weight of 58 kg with a S.D. of 4 kg.
Find 95% and 99% confidence limits of the mean of the population.