Course STA 301: Statistics and Probability

Practice Questions
Lecture No 36 to 40

Q1: Define one tailed and two tailed tests.

t
If n=10 and   0.05, then find the value of
v
Q2: 2 .

t
If n=5 and   0.05, then find the value of
v
Q3: 2 .

Q4: If X  400   21 and n  29 , find upper limit of 95% confidence interval for the
population mean µ
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Q5: P
Calculate the pooled proportion c for the given data.

Sample I: X 1  20, n1  100

Sample II: X 2  30, n2  125

If X  250, n  630 and p0  0.50, then find the z-test statistic for proportion.
Q6:

Q7: A sample of 100 electric light bulbs of type I showed a mean lifetime of 1190 hours and a
standard deviation of 90 hours. A sample of 75 bulbs of type II showed a mean of 1230
hours with a standard deviation of 120 hours. Is there a difference between the mean
lifetimes of two types at a significant level of 5%?

Q8: Random samples of 200 bolts manufactured by machine A and 100 bolts manufactured
by machine B showed 19 and 5 defective bolts respectively. Test the hypothesis that
machine B is performing better than machine A. Use a 0.05 level of Significance.
 Answer Keys

t0.025(9) = 2.228
A2:

t0.025(4) = 2.776
A3:

A4: 407.643

Pˆc  0.2222
A5:

A6: Z  5.139.

A7: Z  2.42.

Conclusion:
z
Since the calculated value of  z = 2.42 is greater than the critical value of  2 = 1.96, so we

reject H 0 . or also we conclude that there is a difference between the two types of bulbs.

A8: Z  1.35.

Conclusion:
Since the calculated value of z=-1.35 is greater than the critical value of z =-1.645, so we don’t
reject H 0 . or also we conclude that machine B is not performing better than machine A.