1. A factory produces bottles of spring water.

The manager decides to assess the

performance of the two machines that are used to fill the bottles with water. He selects a
random sample of 60 bottles filled by the first machine X and a random sample of 80
bottles filled by machine Y. The volumes of water, x and y, measured in appropriate
units, are summarized as follows .

Ix= 58.2, Ix = 2
85.8, LY = 97.6, LY 2
= 188.6

(i) Find a 95% confidence interval for the difference between the mean volume of
water in bottles filled by machine X and machine Y.

(ii) Test at the 5% level of significance whether the mean volume of water in bottles
filled by machine Xis less than the mean volume of water in bottles filled by
machine Y.

2. The times taken to run 400 metres by students at two large colleges P and Q are being
compared. There is no evidence that the population variances are equal. The time taken
by a student at college P and the time taken by a student at college Q are denoted by x
seconds and y seconds respectively. A random sample of 50 students from college P and
a random sample of 60 students from college Q give the following summarized data.

Lx = 2620, L x 2 = 138200 , LY = 3060, LY = 2

157000

(i) Using a 10% significance level, test whether, on average, students from college P
take longer to run 400 metres than students from college Q.

(ii) Find a 90% confidence interval for the difference in the mean times taken to run
400 metres by students from colleges P and Q

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3. The numbers of road accidents per week in a certain town form an approximate normal
distribution. A random sample of size 7 is
9, 5, 8, 6, 11, 13, 8.

Find a 95% confidence interval for the mean number of accidents per week.

In a country area, a random sample of size 4 gives the numbers of road accidents per
week as

7, 3, 10, 2.

(a) Assuming that both distributions are normal with a common variance, obtain a pooled
estimate of the variance.

(b) Test at the 5% level of significance whether, on average, accidents occur more
frequently in the town than in the country.

4. Lunch expenses claimed by stockbrokers and bankers are being compared, and random
samples give the following figures in suitable units

Stockbrokers: n 1 = 8, x1 = 15.5, sf = 5.29

Bankers: n 2 = 12, x 2 = 12.8, s? = 15.21

Assuming that the two populations have normal distributions with means µ1 and µ 2 ,
respectively and equal variances.
(i) Test at the 5% significance level the hypothesis that, on , average, stockbrokers
claim more than bankers.

(ii) Obtain a 95% confidence interval for µ 1 - µ 2 correct to 2 decimal places.

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