Homework 2

Q1. A powerful women's group has claimed that men and women differ in attitudes about
sexual discrimination. A group of 50 men (group 1) and 40 women (group 2) were asked
if they thought sexual discrimination is a problem in the United States. Of those sampled,
11 of the men and 19 of the women did believe that sexual discrimination is a problem.
Find the value of the test statistic,

Q2. The volumes of soda in quart soda bottles are normally distributed with a mean of 32.3
oz and a standard deviation of 1.2 oz. What is the probability that the volume of soda in a
randomly selected bottle will be less than 32 oz?
Let P(Z<0.25)=0.5987, P(Z< -0.3)=0.3821,

Q3. A random sample of 100 households was selected for the survey. The key question
asked was, 'Do you or any member of your household own an Apple product (iPhone, iPod,
iPad, or Mac computer)?". Of the 100 respondents, 35 said "yes" and "65" said no. If the
population proportion is 0.38, determine the sample proportion of households that own an
Apple product and the standard error of the proportion,

Q4. A simple random sample of 15-year-old boys from one city is obtained and their
weights are listed below 150 147 136 180 173 117 168 170 Construct a 95% confidence
interval estimate for the mean weight of this population Assume that the standard deviation
of the weights of ill 15-year-old boys in the city is known to be 16.7 and the population has
a normal distribution

Q5. A researcher is curious about the effect of sleep on students' test performances. He
chooses 60 students and gives each two tests: one given after two hours' sleep and one after
eight hours' sleep. The test the researcher should use would be a related samples test.

True
False

Q6. The owner of a local nightclub has recently surveyed a random sample of n = 250
customers of the club. She would now like to determine whether or not the mean age of
her customers is greater than 30. If so, she plans to alter the entertainment to appeal to an
older crowd. If not, no entertainment changes will be made. Suppose she found that the
sample mean was 30.45 years and the sample standard deviation was 5 years. What is the
p-value associated with the test statistic?
Q7. Suppose, in testing a hypothesis about a mean, the p-value is computed to be 0.043.
The null hypothesis should be rejected if the chosen level of significance is 0.05.
False
True

Q8. The smaller the p-value, the stronger is the evidence against the null hypothesis.
False
True

Q9. An economist is interested in studying the incomes of consumers in a country. The

population standard deviation is known to be $1,000. A random sample of 50 individuals
resulted in a mean income of $15,000. What is the upper end in a 96% confidence interval
for the average income? (Given that z_0.005 = 2.576; z_0.01= 2.326; z_0.025 = 1.960)

Q10. The owner of a local nightclub has recently surveyed a random sample of n = 250
customers of the club. She would now like to determine whether or not the mean age of
her customers is greater than 30. If so, she plans to alter the entertainment to appeal to an
older crowd. If not, no entertainment changes will be made. If she wants to have a level of
significance at 0.01, what rejection region should she use?

Q11. An economist is interested in studying the incomes of consumers in a country. The

population standard deviation is known to be $1,000. A random sample of 50 individuals
resulted in a mean income of $15,000. What is the width of the 90% confidence interval?
(Given that z_0.005 = 2.576; z_0.05= 1.645; z_0.025 = 1.960; z_0.1=1.282)

Q12. The owner of aa local nightclub has recently surveyed a random sample of n = 250
customers of the club. She would now like to determine whether or not the mean age of
her customers is greater than 30. If so, she plans to alter the entertainment to appeal to an
older crowd. If not, no entertainment changes will be made. Suppose she found that the
sample mean was 30.45 years and the sample standard deviation was 5 years. If she wants
to have a level of significance at 0.01, what decision should she make?

Q13. The value of the cumulative standardized normal distribution at Z is 0.6255. The
value of Z is …?

Q14. Major league baseball salaries averaged $3.26 million with a standard deviation of
$1.2 million in a certain year in the past. Suppose a sample of 100 major league players
was taken. What was the standard error for the sample mean salary?
Q15. If the amount of gasoline purchased per car at a large service station has a population
mean of 15 gallons and a population standard deviation of 4 gallons and it is assumed that
the amount of gasoline purchased per car is symmetric, there is approximately a 68.26%
chance that a random sample of 16 cars will have a sample mean between 14 and 16
gallons.
False
True

Q16. Major league baseball salaries averaged $3.26 million with a standard deviation of
$1.2 million in a certain year in the past. Suppose a sample of 100 major league players
was taken. Find the approximate probability that the mean salary of the 100 players was no
more than $3.0 million.

Q17. A Marine drill instructor recorded the time in which each of 11 recruits completed an
obstacle course both before and after basic training. To test whether any improvement
occurred, the instructor would use a t-distribution with 10 degrees of freedom.
False
True

Q18. Suppose we wish to test HO: μ≤47 versus H1: μ > 47, What will result if we conclude
that the mean is greater than 47 when its true value is really 52?

A. We have made a Type I error.

B. We have made a Type II error.
C. None of the above is correct.
D. We have made a correct decision.

Q19. An economist is interested in studying the incomes of consumers in a country.

The population standard deviation is known to be $1,000. A random sample of 50
individuals resulted in a mean income of $15,000. What is the upper end in a 96%
confidence interval for the average income? (Given that z_0.005 = 2.576; z_0.01= 2.326;
z 0.025 = 1.960)

Q20. Suppose a 96% confidence interval for mean turns out to be (500; 900). To make
more useful inferences from the data, it is desired to reduce the width of the confidence
interval. Which of the following will result in a reduced interval width?

A. Increase the sample size.

B. Increase the sample mean.
C. Increase the confidence level.
 D. Increase the population mean.

Q21. Suppose, in testing a hypothesis about a mean, the p-value is computed to be 0.034.
The null hypothesis should be rejected if the chosen level of significance is 0.01.
False
True

Q22. According to the Chebyshev rule, at least what percentage of the observations in
any data set are contained within 3 standard deviations around the mean?

Q23. Suppose the ages of students in Statistics 101 follow a right-skewed distribution
with a mean of 23 years and a standard deviation of 3 years. If we randomly sampled 100
students, which of the following statements about the sampling distribution of the sample
mean age is incorrect?
The mean of the sampling distribution is equal to 23 years.
The standard deviation of the sampling distribution is equal to 3 years.
The shape of the sampling distribution is approximately normal.
The standard error of the sampling distribution is equal to 0.3 years.

Q24. In testing the difference between two proportions using the normal distribution,
you may use a two-tail Z test.
True
False

Q25 The t distribution is used to develop a confidence interval estimate of the population
mean when the population standard deviation is unknown.
False
True

Q26. Suppose, in testing a hypothesis about a mean, the p-value is computed to be 0.043.
The null hypothesis should be rejected if the chosen level of significance is
0.05.
False
True

Q27. A Marine drill instructor recorded the time in which each of 11 recruits completed
an obstacle course both before and after basic training. To test whether any improvement
occurred, the instructor would use a t-distribution with 11 degrees of freedom.
False
True

Q28. The owner of a fish market determined that the mean weight for a catfish is 3.2
pounds with a standard deviation of 0.8 pounds. A citation catfish should be one of the
top 2% in weight. Assuming the weights of catfish are normally distributed, at what
weight (in pounds) should the citation designation be established?

Q29. If we know that the length of time it takes a college student to find a parking spot in
the library parking lot follows a normal distribution with a mean of 3.5 minutes and a
standard deviation of 1 minute, 75.8% of the college students will take more than how
many minutes when trying to find a parking spot in the library parking lot?

Q30. Sales prices of baseball cards from the 1960s are known to possess a right-skewed
distribution with a mean sale price of $5.25 and a standard deviation of $2.80. Suppose a
random sample of 100 cards from the 1960s is selected. Describe the sampling
distribution for the sample mean sale price of the selected cards.

Q31. The larger the p-value, the more likely you are to reject the null hypothesis.
True
False

Q32. If the amount of gasoline purchased per car at a large service station has a
population mean of 15 gallons and a population standard deviation of 4 gallons and a
random sample of 4 cars is selected, there is approximately a 68.26% chance that the
sample mean will be between 13 and 17 gallons.
True
False

Q33 Suppose a department store wants to estimate the mean age of the customers of its
contemporary apparel department, correct to within 2 years, with level of confidence
equal to 95%. Management believes that the standard deviation is 8 years. What should
the sample size be? (Given that z_0.005 = 2.576; z_0.05= 1.645; z_0.025 = 1.960;
z_0.1=1.282)

Q34. For a given data set, the confidence interval will be wider for 98% confidence than
for 95% confidence.
True
False

Q35. The owner of a local nightclub has recently surveyed a random sample of n = 250
customers of the club. She would now like to determine whether or not the mean age of
her customers is greater than 30. If so, she plans to alter the entertainment to appeal to an
older crowd. If not, no entertainment changes will be made. Suppose she found that the
sample mean was 30.45 years and the sample standard deviation was 5 years. If she
wants to have a level of significance at 0.01 what conclusion can she make?
There is not sufficient evidence that the mean age of her customers is not greater than 30.
There is sufficient evidence that the mean age of her customers is greater than 30.
There is not sufficient evidence that the mean age of her customers is greater than 30.
There is sufficient evidence that the mean age of her customers is not greater than 30.

Q36. Major league baseball salaries averaged $3.26 million with a standard deviation of
$1.2 million in a certain year in the past. Suppose a sample of 100 major league players
was taken. Find the approximate probability that the mean salary of the 100 players
exceeded $3.5 million.

Q37. If we know that the length of time it takes a college student to find a parking spot in
the library parking lot follows a normal distribution with a mean of 3.5 minutes and a
standard deviation of 1 minute, find the probability that a randomly selected college student
will take between 2 and 4.5 minutes to find a parking spot in the library parking lot.

Q38. A worker earns $15 per hour at a plant in China and is told that only 2.5% of all
workers make a higher wage. If the wage is assumed to be normally distributed and the
standard deviation of wage rates is $5 per hour, the mean wage for the plant is $7.50 per
hour.
False
True

Q39. The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article indicating differences in perception of
sexual harassment on the job between men and women. The article claimed that women
perceived the problem to be much more prevalent than did men. One question asked to
both men and women was: "Do you think sexual harassment is a major problem in the
American workplace?" Some 24% of the men compared to 62% of the women responded
"Yes." Suppose that 150 women and 200 men were interviewed. For a 0.01 level of
significance, what is the critical value for the rejection region?

Q40. You wish to test the claim that μ > 132 at a level of significance
of α= 0.05 and are given sample statistics n=40, mean = 137, and s = 14.2. Compute the
value of the test statistic and critical values.

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