Stat II assignment
1. Name the sampling method used in each of the following situations:
i. A woman in the airport is handing out questionnaires to travelers asking them to
evaluate the airport’s service. She does not ask travelers who are hurrying through
the airport with their hands full of luggage, but instead asks all travelers who are
sitting near gates and not taking naps while they wait.
ii. A teacher wants to know if her students are doing homework, so she randomly
selects rows two and five and then calls on all students in row two and all students
in row five to present the solutions to homework problems to the class.
iii. The marketing manager for an electronics chain store wants information about the
ages of its customers. Over the next two weeks, at each store location, 100
randomly selected customers are given questionnaires to fill out asking for
information about age, as well as about other variables of interest.
iv. The librarian at a public library wants to determine what proportion of the library
users are children. The librarian has a tally sheet on which she marks whether
books are checked out by an adult or a child. She records this data for every
fourth patron who checks out books.
v. A political party wants to know the reaction of voters to a debate between the
candidates. The day after the debate, the party’s polling staff calls 1,200 randomly
selected phone numbers. If a registered voter answers the phone or is available to
come to the phone that registered voter is asked whom he or she intends to vote
for and whether the debate changed his or her opinion of the candidates.
2. A sample of 20 heads of lettuce was selected. Assume that the population distribution of head
weight is normal. The weight of each head of lettuce was then recorded. The mean weight
was 2.2 pounds with a standard deviation of 0.1 pounds. The population standard deviation is
known to be 0.2 pounds.
i. Which distribution should you use for this problem?
ii. Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean weight of the heads
of lettuce. State the confidence interval.
iii. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean weight of the heads
of lettuce. State the confidence interval
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3. A hospital is trying to cut down on emergency room wait times. It is interested in the amount
of time patients must wait before being called back to be examined. An investigation
committee randomly surveyed 70 patients. The sample mean was 1.5 hours with a sample
standard deviation of 0.5 hours.
i. Which distribution should you use for this problem?
ii. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean time spent waiting.
State the confidence interval, sketch the graph, and calculate the error bound.
iii. Explain in complete sentences what the confidence interval means.
4. Suppose the marketing company did do a survey. They randomly surveyed 200 households
and found that in 120 of them, the woman made the majority of the purchasing decisions. We
are interested in the population proportion of households where women make the majority of
the purchasing decisions.
i. Which distribution should you use for this problem?
ii. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of households
where the women make the majority of the purchasing decisions. State the
confidence interval.
5. The cost of a daily newspaper varies from city to city. However, the variation among prices
remains steady with a standard deviation of 20¢. A study was done to test the claim that the
mean cost of a daily newspaper is $1.00. Twelve costs yield a mean cost of 95¢ with a
standard deviation of 18¢. Do the data support the claim at the 1% level?
6. It is believed that a stock price for a particular company will grow at a rate of $5 per week
with a standard
deviation of $1. An investor believes the stock won’t grow as quickly. The changes in stock
price is recorded for ten weeks and are as follows: $4, $3, $2, $3, $1, $7, $2, $1, $1, $2.
Perform a hypothesis test using a 5% level of significance. State the null and alternative
hypotheses, find the p-value, state your conclusion, and identify the Type I and Type II errors
7. A grassroots group opposed to a proposed increase in the gas tax claimed that the increase
would hurt working-class people the most, since they commute the farthest to work. Suppose
that the group randomly surveyed 24 individuals and asked them their daily one-way
commuting mileage. The results are in Table below. Using a 5% significance level, test the
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hypothesis that the three mean commuting mileages are the same.
working- professional (middle professional
class incomes) (wealthy)
17.8 16.5 8.5
26.7 17.4 6.3
49.4 22.0 4.6
9.4 7.4 12.6
65.4 9.4 11.0
47.1 2.1 28.6
19.5 6.4 15.4
51.2 13.9 9.3
8. Car manufacturers are interested in whether there is a relationship between the size of car an
individual drives and the number of people in the driver’s family (that is, whether car size
and family size are independent). To test this, suppose that 800 car owners were randomly
surveyed with the results in Table below. Conduct a test of independence.
Family Sub & Mid- Full- Van &
Size Compact size size Truck
1 20 35 40 35
2 20 50 70 80
3–4 20 50 100 90
5+ 20 30 70 70
9. A random sample of ten professional athletes produced the following data where x is the
number of endorsements the player has and y is the amount of money made (in millions of
dollars).
x y x y
1
0 2 5
2
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3 8 4 9
2 7 3 9
1 3 0 3
1 1
5 4
3 0
i. Draw a scatter plot of the data. Use regression to find the equation for the line of best
fit.
ii. Draw the line of best fit on the scatter plot. What is the slope of the line of best fit?
What does it represent?
iii. What is the y-intercept of the line of best fit? What does it represent?
iv. What does an r value of zero mean?