MATH30-5 Final Exam Problem Set E

1. A survey conducted by engineering students found that the average

contractor overspends 250 (in thousands) pesos in a single project. Assume
that the standard deviation is 23.4 (in thousands) pesos. Find the
percentage of contractors who overspend less than 270 (in thousands).

2. Ten civil engineers in a construction firm were randomly selected and

asked how long they work in a day. The mean time was 7.1 hours, and the
standard deviation was 0.78 hours. Find the 95% confidence interval of the
mean time. Assume that the variable is normally distributed.

3. Let’s perform a one sample z-test for proportions: A survey claims that
9 out of 10 Engineers recommend using Formwork for their upcoming
construction project. To test this claim, a random sample of 100 engineers
is obtained. Of these samples, 82 indicate that they recommend Formwork. Is
this claim accurate? Use α = 0.05.

4. A city engineer wishes to see if a roof truss compressive strength will

change if a certain material would be added to the overall design. Six
types were pretested and were observed for a period of 6 weeks. The results
are shown in the table below. Can it be concluded that the compressive
strength has been changed at α=0.10? Assume the variable is approximately
distributed. Use Traditional Method.


 Subject 1 2 3 4 5 6
Before X1 210 235 208 190 172 244
After X2 190 170 210 188 173 228

5. A construction firm must anticipate some orders of precast concrete

structures two months before each quarter. They believe that the number of
casted structures that will ultimately be sold for any particular course is
related to the number of new projects registered when the pieces are
ordered. They would like to develop a linear regression equation to help
plan how many precast forms to create. From past records, the construction
firm obtains the number of newly registered projects, X, and the number of
products actually sold, Y, for 12 different quarters.

Quarter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
New 36 28 35 39 30 30 31 38 36 38 29 26
Orders 31 29 34 35 29 30 30 38 34 33 29 26

6. Consider the size of steel bars used for specific building project and
the quantity shown below: 




 Size (mm) 10 12 16 20 25
Quantity 24 30 31 11 4


Test the claim that the quantity of the steel bars used for the specific
building project has no difference.

7. In a construction firm, the project manager wants to test if there is a

significant difference to the number of workers at 3 different construction
sites. Test the claim that there is a significant difference at α=0.05 in
the date shown below.
Firm A Firm B Firm C

30 12 9

26 28 19

18 15 21