ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS (SSTM ZG524/EE ZG523)
FIRST SEMESTER 2021-2022
ASSIGNMENT 2
WEIGHTAGE : 7%
Assignment Date: 28/09/2021 (Tuesday)
Assignment Submission Date: 14/10/2021 (Thursday) 5:00 PM
A single pdf copy of the handwritten assignments should be submitted before the deadline
in the following google form:
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1. The following data related the rubber percentage of two types of rubber plants, where the
samples have been drawn independently. Assume level of significance = 5%. Test for their
mean difference. [Hints: First you need to check whether their variances are equal]. [4]
Type I 6.21 5.70 6.04 4.47 5.22 4.45 4.84 5.84 5.88
5.82 6.09 5.59 6.06 5.59 6.74 5.55
Type II 4.28 7.71 6.48 7.71 7.37 7.20 7.06 6.40 8.93
5.91 5.51 6.36
2. An experiment is conducted in which an unbiased 6-sided die is rolled 240 times. The
outcomes are in the table below. At a significance level of α = 0.05, is there enough evidence
to support the hypothesis that the die is unbiased? [3]
Outcome 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 34 44 30 46 51 35