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Confidence Intervals & Hypothesis Testing Solutions

The document presents practice problems related to confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, including scenarios involving the IRS tax form completion time, pet ownership proportions, environmental awareness claims, tire life expectancy, cookie fat content, driving distances, and coin flipping results. It outlines the necessary calculations for confidence intervals and hypothesis tests, including null and alternative hypotheses, error types, and significance levels. Each problem requires statistical analysis to evaluate claims based on sample data.

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Confidence Intervals & Hypothesis Testing Solutions

The document presents practice problems related to confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, including scenarios involving the IRS tax form completion time, pet ownership proportions, environmental awareness claims, tire life expectancy, cookie fat content, driving distances, and coin flipping results. It outlines the necessary calculations for confidence intervals and hypothesis tests, including null and alternative hypotheses, error types, and significance levels. Each problem requires statistical analysis to evaluate claims based on sample data.

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Week 6 Practice Problems -- Solutions

Confidence Intervals and Introduction to Hypothesis Testing

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) claims that it takes no more than 160 minutes to
complete the standard 1040 tax form. To test this claim, a researcher randomly selected 30
individuals and recorded the time it took each one to complete the standard 1040 tax form. The
mean from this sample was 211.4 minutes with a standard deviation of 159.2 minutes. Using this
information calculate the 95% confidence interval of the mean from the sample.

A recent poll showed that 45 people out of 100 people surveyed said they owned a pet.
Construct a 99% confidence interval for the proportion.

A news outlet reports that the proportion of US adults who say Earth Day has helped
environmental awareness is 41%.
1. State the null and alternative hypotheses, and identify which represents the claim.
2. Describe type I and II errors for a hypothesis test of the claim.
3. Explain whether the test is one- or two-tailed.

New tires manufactured by a company outside Seattle are claimed to provide a mean life
expectancy of at least 40,000 miles. A test with 30 randomly selected tires shows a sample mean
of 39,600 miles, and a standard deviation of 998 miles.
1. State the null and alternative hypotheses, and whether the hypothesis test is one or two-
tailed.
2. Evaluate the claim based on the information provided at a significance level of α = 0.02
(week 7 material)

In a sample of 35 cookies, it is found that the mean amount of saturated fat per cookie is 2.1
grams, with a sample standard deviation is 0.3 gram.
1. Construct an 80% confidence interval for the mean.
2. The makers of those cookies advertise that the mean amount of saturated fat per cookie is
2.0 grams. State the null and alternate hypotheses for this claim and evaluate this test at α
= 0.05 (some week 7 material)

The mean driving distance (in miles) to work of 30 people is 9.5 miles. The standard deviation
of this sample is 8 miles. Calculate the margin of error, E, for a 90% confidence interval.

You flip a coin 87 times, and it lands heads-up 37 times.


1. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the probability of getting heads.
3. Evaluate the claim that this coin is fair at α = 0.1 (week 7 material)

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