Question Bank
Module-4
Q1 A college conducts both morning and evening classes intended to be identical. A
sample of 100 morning students yields examination results as under:
Mean = 72.4, S.D = 14.8.
A sample of 200 evening students yields examination results as under:
Mean = 73.9, S.D = 17.9.
Is there any significant difference between the mean results of both the classes? Test
at 5% level of significance.
[Ans: Not significant]
Q2 A manufacturer claims at least 95% of the items he produces are failure free.
Examination of a random sample of 600 items showed 39 to be defective. Test the
claim at a significance level of 0.05.
[Ans: Significant]
Q3 In a sample of 500 people in Kerala, 280 are tea drinkers and the rest are coffee
drinkers. Can we assume that both coffee and tea are equally popular in this state at
1% level of significance?
[Ans: Not Significant]
Q4 The mean weekly sales of the chocolate bar in a candy stores was 140.3 bars per store.
After an advertisement campaign, the mean weekly sales in 22 store for a typical week
increased to 153.7 and showed a standard deviation of 17.2. Was the advertising
campaign not successful?
Ans. 𝑡 = 1.9716; the advertisement was successful at 5% level of significance.
Q5 Talcum powder is packed into tins by a machine. A random sample of 11 tins is drawn
and their content are found to weigh in kgs as follows: 0.44, 0.51, 0.49, 0.52, 0.45,
0.48, 0.46, 0.45, 0.47, 0.45 and 0.47. test if the average packing can be taken to be 0.5
kgs.
[Ans. 𝑡 = 3.43; 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑆𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑡]
Q6 The incomes of a random sample of laborers in the industry I are: Rs. 630, 650, 680,
690, 710, and 720 per month. The incomes of a similar sample from Industry II are
Rs. 610, 620, 650, 680, 690, 700, 710, 720, are 730 per month. Discuss the validity of
the suggestion that the industry I pays labourers much better than the industry II.
[Ans. t= 0. [Link] is no significant difference between the salaries of Industry 𝐈
and Industry 𝐈𝐈.]
Q7 The sales data of an item in six shops before and after a special promotional campaign
are as under
Shops A B C D E F
Before campaign 53 28 31 48 50 42
After campaign 58 29 30 55 56 45
Can the campaign be judged to be a success? Test at 5% level of significance.
Ans. 𝑡 = −2.78; the sales campaign has been success.
Q8 Two random samples drawn from normal populations are:
SampleI 20 16 26 27 23 22 18 24 25 19 20
SampleII 17 23 32 25 22 24 28 18 31 33 27
Obtain estimates of the variances of the populations, and test whether the two
populations have the same variance. Use F – Test.
(Ans: F=2.14)
Q9 The time taken by workers in performing a job my method I and method II is given
below:
Method I: 20 16 26 27 22
Method II: 27 33 42 35 32 34 38.
[Ans. 𝐹 = 1.37, variance of time distribution in a population from which the
samples are drawn do not differ significantly.]
Q10 A sample of 400 people with a particular disease was selected, of which 50% were
given a drug, 35% were not cured while 56.25% of not cured were not given any drug.
Test at 5% level of significance whether the drug is effective or not?
[Ans. Computed value of 𝜒 = 2.084.]
Q11 The number of parts of a particular spare part in a factory was found to vary from day
to day. In a sample study the following information was obtained.
Day Mon. Tue. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat. Sun.
No. of part demanded
1124 1125 1110 1120 1126 1115 6720
Test the hypothesis that the number of parts demanded does not depend on the day of
the week. (The table value of 𝑥² for 5 d.f. at 5% level of significance is 11.07.
[Ans. 𝜒 = 0.179. ]
Q12 To test the efficiency of a new drug a controlled experiment was conducted wherein
300 patients were administered the new drug and 200 other patients were not given
the drug. The patients were monitored and the results were obtained as follows:
Cured Condition worsened No effect Total
Given the drug 200 40 60 300
Not given the drug 120 30 50 200
Total 320 70 110 500
Use 𝜒 (𝐶ℎ𝑖 − 𝑆𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑒) test for finding the effect of the drug.
[Ans. Compute value of 𝑥 = 2.435]
Q13 Five coin are tossed 3,200 times and the number of heads appearing each time are
noted. At the end, the following results were obtained:
No. of heads 0 1 2 3 4 5
Frequency 80 570 1100 900 500 50
Use Chi-square test of goodness of fit to determine whether the coins are unbiased.
[Ans. Computed value of 𝜒 = 58.8]
Q14 The theory predicts the production of beans in the four groups 𝐴, 𝐵, 𝐶 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐷 should
be 9 : 3 : 3 : 1. In an experiment among 1,600 beans, the numbers in the four groups
were 882, 313, 287, and 118. Does the experimental results support the theory?
[Ans. 𝜒 = 4.72]
Q15 A machine puts out 16 imperfect articles in a sample of 500. After the machine is
overhauled, it puts 3 imperfect articles in a batch of 100. Has the machine improved?
Test at 5% level of significance.
[Ans: Not Significant]