Assignment II
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1. An electrical firm manufactures light bulbs that have a length of life that is approximately normally
distributed with a standard deviation of 40 hours. If a sample of 30 bulbs has an average life of 780
hours.
(a) Find a 96% confidence interval for the population mean of all bulbs produced by this firm.
(b) How large a sample is needed if we wish to be 96% confident that our sample mean will be within
10 hours of the true mean?
2. An experiment reported in Popular Science compared fuel economies for two types of similarly
equipped diesel mini-trucks. Let us suppose that 12 Volkswagen and 10 Toyota trucks are used in 90-
kilometer per hour steady-speed tests. If the 12 Volkswagen trucks average 16 kilometers per liter with
a standard deviation of 1.0 kilometer per liter and the 10 Toyota trucks average 11 kilometers per liter
with a standard deviation of 0.8 kilometers.
(a) Construct a 90% confidence interval for the difference between the average kilometers per liter of
these two mini-trucks. Assume that the distances per liter for each truck model are approximately
normally distributed with equal variances.
(b) Construct a 98% confidence interval for 1 / 2 where 1 and 2 are, respectively, the standard
deviations for the distances obtained per liter of fuel by the Volkswagen and Toyota mini-trucks.
3. A manufacturer claims that the average tensile strength of thread A exceeds the average tensile strength
of thread B by at least 12 kilograms. To test his claim, 50 pieces of each type of thread are tested under
similar conditions. Type A thread had an average tensile strength of 86.7 kilograms with a standard
deviation of 6.28 kilograms while type B thread had an average tensile strength of 77.8 kilograms with a
standard deviation of 5.61 kilograms. Test the manufacturer's claim using a 0.05 level of significance.
4. An urban community would like to show that the incidence of breast cancer is higher than in a nearby
rural area. (PCB levels were found to be higher in the soil of the urban community.) If it is found that 20
of 200 adult women in the urban community have breast cancer and 10 of 150 adult women in the
rural community have breast cancer, can we conclude at the 0.05 level of significance that breast cancer
is more prevalent in the urban community?
5. A soft-drink dispensing machine is said to be out of control if the variance of the contents exceeds 1.15
deciliters. If a random sample of 25 drinks from this machine has a variance of 2.03 deciliters, does this
indicate at the 0.05 level of significance that the machine is out of control? Assume that the contents
are approximately normally distributed.
6. An investigation was conducted to determine the source of reduction in yield of a certain chemical
product. It was known that the loss in yield occurred in the mother liquor, that is, the material removed
at the filtration stage. It was felt that different blends of the original material may result in different yield
reductions at the mother liquor stage. The following are results of the percent reduction for 3 batches
at each of 4 preselected blends:
Blend
1 2 3 4
25.6 25.2 20.8 31.6
24.3 28.6 26.7 29.8
27.9 24.7 22.2 34.3
(a) Perform the analysis of variance at the 0.05 level of significance.
(b) Use LSD test determine which blends differ.
7. A study of the amount of rainfall and the quantity of air pollution removed produced the following data:
Daily rainfall, x (0.01 cm) 4.3 4.5 5.9 5.6 6.1 5.2 3.8 2.1 7.5
Particulate remove, y (mcg/cum) 126 121 116 118 114 118 132 141 108
(a) Find the equation of the regression line to predict the particulate removed from the amount of
daily rainfall.
(b) Estimate the amount of particulate removed when the daily rainfall x = 4.8 units.
(c) Find a 95% confidence interval for .
(d) Construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean response when x = 4.8 units.
(e) Compute and interpret the sample correlation coefficient.
(f) Test the hypothesis that H 0 : 0 against the alternative H a : 0 using a 0.05 level of
significance.