Individual Assignment 1
Assignment Instructions
1. Submission Deadline:
No late submissions will be accepted after 26 March 2026.
2. Format:
o Your assignment must be printed on A4 paper.
o Ensure that your name and student ID are clearly written on the first page.
3. Submission Method:
o The assignment must be submitted physically in the classroom.
o Online or email submissions will not be accepted.
4. Academic Integrity:
o The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools is strictly prohibited for this
assignment.
o If there is any evidence of AI-generated content, the assignment will receive
a grade of zero (0).
5. Responsibility:
o Students are responsible for ensuring their work is submitted on time and
follows all instructions.
o Failure to follow these instructions may result in penalties or rejection of the
assignment.
Question 1:
A city reports that the average mathematics aptitude score of high school students is 98.2. The
scores are normally distributed, and the population standard deviation is 14. A principal
claims that the students in her school have an average aptitude score greater than 98.2. She
randomly selects 36 students and finds that their mean score is 102.5. Test the claim at α =
0.05.
Question 2:
A researcher wants to test the claim that the average monthly rent for apartments in a city
is greater than $1,200. She randomly selects 49 apartments and finds the sample mean rent
to be $1,260. The population standard deviation is known to be $210.
At the α = 0.05 significance level, is there enough evidence to support the claim that the
average rent exceeds $1,200?
Use the P-value method to test the claim.
Question 3:
A quality control manager claims that the average number of defective items produced by a
machine per day is 12.5. A random sample of 9 days shows a mean of 13.8 defective items
per day. The sample standard deviation is 2.1.
At the α = 0.05 significance level, is there enough evidence to reject the manager’s claim
about the average number of defective items produced per day?
Question 4:
A nutritionist claims that the average number of calories consumed per day by adults in a
certain town is 2,150 calories. A random sample of 12 adults shows a mean daily calorie
intake of 2,240 calories. The sample standard deviation is 140 calories.
At the α = 0.05 significance level, is there enough evidence to reject the nutritionist’s
claim?
Use the P-value method.
Question 5:
A health researcher claims that 22% of teenagers ages 13–18 get less than 8 hours of sleep
per night. To test this claim, she randomly selects 250 teenagers and finds that 68 of them
get less than 8 hours of sleep per night.
At α = 0.05, is there enough evidence to reject the claim?
Question 6:
A national survey reports that 28% of university students work part-time while studying.
A researcher believes that in his city, the percentage of students who work part-time is lower
than 28%. He randomly selects 120 university students and finds that 24 students work
part-time.
At α = 0.01, is there enough evidence to conclude that the percentage of students who work
part-time in his city is less than 28%?
Question 7:
The standard deviation of scores on a national statistics exam is 80, which means the
variance is 6,400. A professor wants to determine whether the variance of the exam scores
of students in his class is less than 6,400. He randomly selects 20 students from his class
and finds that the sample variance of their scores is 4,900.
At α = 0.05, is there enough evidence to support the claim that the variance of the
students’ scores in his class is less than 6,400?
Assume that the scores are normally distributed.
Question 8:
A beverage company claims that the variance of the amount of sugar in its bottled drinks
is 0.81. Assume the sugar content is normally distributed. A random sample of 18 bottles
has a standard deviation of 1.10 grams.
At α = 0.05, is there enough evidence to reject the company’s claim about the variance of
the sugar content?
If you want, I can also generate one with the P-value method wording included.