Sections 9.3, 9.4, 9.

5, Problems 42, 43, 46, 49, 52, 53, 54, 56, 66

9.42 In a one-tail hypothesis test where you reject H0 only in the upper tail, what is the critical
value of the t-test statistic with 10 degrees of freedom at the 0.01 level of significance? 2.7638
9.43 In Problem 9.42, what is your statistical decision if tSTAT=+2.39? 2.39 < 2.76, there is
insufficient evidence to reject H0.

9.46 The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has set a bus mechanical
reliability goal of 3,013 bus miles. Bus mechanical reliability is measured specifically as the
number of bus miles between mechanical road calls. Suppose a sample of 64 buses resulted in a
sample mean of 3,295 bus miles and a sample standard deviation of 825 bus miles.

a. Is there evidence that the population mean bus miles is greater than 3,013 bus
miles? (Use a 0.05 level of significance.) Yes
b. Determine the p-value and interpret its meaning. .9959

Data
Null Hypothesis = 3013
Level of Significance 0.05
Sample Size 64
Sample Mean 3295
Sample Standard Deviation 825

One-Tail
Intermediate Calculations Calculations  
Standard Error of the Mean 103.1250 T.DIST.RT value 0.0041
Degrees of Freedom 63 1-T.DIST.RT value 0.9959
t Test Statistic 2.7345

Lower-Tail Test  
Lower Critical Value -1.6694
p-Value 0.9959
9.49 You are the manager of a restaurant that delivers pizza to college dormitory rooms. You
have just changed your delivery process in an effort to reduce the mean time between the order
and completion of delivery from the current 25 minutes. A sample of 36 orders using the new
delivery process yields a sample mean of 22.4 minutes and a sample standard deviation of 6
minutes.

a. Using the six-step critical value approach, at the 0.05 level of significance, is
there evidence that the population mean delivery time has been reduced below the
previous population mean value of 25 minutes? Yes, there is sufficient evidence.
b. At the 0.05 level of significance, use the five-step p-value approach.
c. Interpret the meaning of the p-value in (b). Reject H0 and conclude that the
mean completion of delivery time is less than 25 mins.
d. Compare your conclusions in (a) and (b). They seem to confirm one another.

9.52 If, in a random sample of 400 items, 88 are defective, what is the sample proportion of
defective items? .22

9.53 In Problem 9.52, if the null hypothesis is that 20% of the items in the population are
defective, what is the value of ZSTAT? 1.00
9.54 In Problems 9.52 and 9.53, suppose you are testing the null hypothesis H0:π=0.20 against
the two-tail alternative hypothesis H1:π≠0.20 and you choose the level of significance α=0.05.
What is your statistical decision? Reject H0

9.56 The worldwide market share for the Chrome web browser was 26% in a recent month.
(Data extracted from netmarketshare.com.) Suppose that you decide to select a sample of 100
students at your university and you find that 30 use the Chrome web browser.

a. Use the five-step p-value approach to determine whether there is evidence that the
market share for the Chrome web browser at your university is greater than the
worldwide market share of 26%. (Use the 0.05 level of significance.)

Data
Null Hypothesis = 0.26
Level of Significance 0.05
Number of Items of Interest 30
Sample Size 100

Intermediate Calculations
Sample Proportion 0.3000
Standard Error 0.0439
Z Test Statistic 0.9119

Lower-Tail Test
-
Lower Critical Value 1.6449
p-Value 0.8191
Do not reject the null hypothesis  
 b. Suppose that the sample size is n=400, and you find that 30% of the sample of
students at your university (120 out of 400) use the Chrome web browser. Use the
five-step p-value approach to try to determine whether there is evidence that the
market share for the Chrome web browser at your university is greater than the
worldwide market share of 26%. (Use the 0.05 level of significance.)

Data
Null Hypothesis = 0.26
Level of Significance 0.05
Number of Items of Interest 120
Sample Size 400

Intermediate Calculations
Sample Proportion 0.3000
Standard Error 0.0219
Z Test Statistic 1.8238

Lower-Tail Test
-
Lower Critical Value 1.6449
p-Value 0.9659
Do not reject the null hypothesis  

c. Discuss the effect that sample size has on hypothesis testing. The sample size
had a very big effect on the hypothesis testing.
d. What do you think are your chances of rejecting any null hypothesis concerning a
population proportion if a sample size of n=20 is used? That small of a sample
size would likely not yield the evidence to reject the null hypothesis.

9.66 How can a confidence interval estimate for the population mean provide conclusions for the
corresponding two-tail hypothesis test for the population mean? When you construct a
confidence interval estimate, you indicate the confidence of correctly estimating the value
of the population parameter. This allows you to say that there is a specified confidence that
it is somewhere in the range of numbers defined by the interval. The two-tail test rejection
region takes the remaining level of significance which enables you to determine the critical
value to test the hypothesis.