Chapter 10
Practice Problems
(Submit to Moodle one day (23:59)
before the coming class
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Class exercise 1
A report mentioned that MUST students spend MOP606.4 per week for their
lunch. Rachael does not believe it. She thought students spending should not be
MOP606.4. She then picked 30 students and asked them how much they spent for
lunch. The average spending of these 30 students was MOP622.85 and she found
from an official publication that the population standard deviation is 65.
a. Rachael wants to test whether this claim is true. Help her to test this claim with
significance level of 5%. Please also tell her the p-value.
B. In fact, Rachael thought that the students should spend more than MOP606.4
per week. Help her to develop another hypothesis testing (with the same
significance level) to see whether her claim is supported or not.
Class exercise 2
Decades ago, when Rachael was still a university student. Her generation studied
at least 24 hours per week (in addition to class time).
Now, you guys are much more clever (Does my assumption make sense?) and will
spend less hours in studying (Still get similar results?). She then picked 35 students
and asked them how many hours they studied per week and found the average is
16.3714 hours and the sample standard deviation was 7.2155.
At a 5% significance level, can Rachael make the conclusion that the current study
time (per week) of university students is less than 24 hours?
By the way, Rachael also wants to know the p-value.
Homework 1
A recent national survey found that high school students
watched an average (mean) of 6.8 movies per month with a
population standard deviation of 1.8. The distribution of
number of movies watched per month follows the normal
distribution. A random sample of 36 college students revealed
that the mean number of movies watched last month was 6.2.
At the .05 significance level, can we conclude that college
students watch fewer movies a month than high school
students?
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Homework 2
The mean annual consumption of tea per person in an unknown
country is 22.0 gallons. A random sample of 300 persons from one of
the cities of the country (City A) yielded a mean annual tea
consumption of 27.8 gallons.
At the 10% significant level, do the data provide sufficient evidence to
conclude that the mean annual consumption of tea per person for the
city differs from the national mean? Assume that the standard
deviation of tea consumption for that unknown city is 55 gallons.
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Homework 3
2. A Washington, D.C., “think tank” announces the typical
teenager sent 67 text messages per day in 2017. to update that
estimate, you phone a sample of 12 teenagers and ask them
how many text messages thy sent the previous day. There
responses were:
51 175 47 49 44 54 145 203 21 59 42 100
At the .05 level, can you conclude that the mean number is
greater than 67? Estimate the p-value and describe what it tells
you.
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Homework 4
According to the record, the average consumer of an unknown city spent $1729 per
season on buying coffee. In one particular coffee shop, a survey randomly taking 36
consumers had the following seasonal expenditures, in dollars, on coffee.
2220 1646 2072 2172 2125 2036
1310 1540 2182 1842 1470 973
1624 1882 1419 1644 1896 1783
1854 1280 1397 1602 1599 1742
1067 1697 2118 1276 1843 2297
1555 1691 1323 1003 1483 1353
At 5% significance level, do the data provide sufficient evidence to conclude that the
mean annual expenditure on coffee in the coffee shop differed from the city mean of
$1729?
(The sample mean and sample standard deviation are $1667.11 and $351.69 respectively)
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