Few Questions to be Solved Using R

1. Suppose packages of cream cheese coming from an automated processor have

weights that are normally distributed. For one day’s production run, the mean is
8.2 ounces and the standard deviation is 0.1 ounce.
(a) If the packages of cream cheese are labelled 8 ounces, what proportion of the
packages weigh less than the labelled amount?
(b) If only 5% of the packages exceed a specified weight w, what is the value of
w?
(c) Suppose two packages are selected at random from the day’s production. What
is the probability that the average weight of the two packages is less than 8.3
ounces?

2. In a study to determine the percentage of children that are overdue for vaccination
in a small town, the researcher took a sample out of 580 children served by the
only hospital in town.
(i) What sample size would be necessary to estimate the proportion with 95%
confidence with a margin of error 0.107.
(ii) Suppose a sample of 120 was taken, of whom 27 were not overdue for
vaccination. Give a 95% confidence interval for the percentage of children
not overdue for vaccination.

3. Suppose we are interested to estimate the proportion (p) of smokers among the
male students of IIMV. Suppose a sample of size 100 is chosen out of the male
students, and the sample proportion of smokers is found to be 0.2. Give an interval
based on your data so that you are 95% confident that the true value of the
unknown proportion lies inside it. Also, state the assumptions that you have to
make for finding this interval. Could you check these assumptions?

4. Suppose a new surveillance system is installed on highways to prevent the drivers

from speeding. Out of the next 100 days after installation, the number of days with
no major car accident is observed to be 60. Find an interval estimate of the
proportion of days with no major accident that is expected with the new system in
place with confidence level 95%. Before the installation of the system, this
percentage was 40.

(i) Based on the 95% confidence interval, would you believe that the
installation of the system has led to an improvement?
(ii) State the assumptions that you have made for drawing the conclusion.
Could you check these assumptions?
5. Suppose a car manufacturing company claims that the average mileage of model
M is 20 (distance it could travel with one gallon of gas). The average and the
standard deviation of mileages of 16 individuals owning car of model M, who are
chosen at random, are found to be 19.5 and 4, respectively.
(i) Find a 95% confidence interval of the average mileage.
(ii) State the assumptions that you have made for finding this interval.
(iii) Find the confidence interval if the number of individuals is increased to 36
(keeping other values same). Do you need the assumptions you stated in (ii)
for finding the confidence interval.