CLASSWORK 11

1. A random sample of 100 is taken from infinite population having the mean  = 76 and the variance  2 = 256. What is
the probability that sample mean will be between 75 and 78?
2. What is the maximum error one can expect to make with probability 0.95 when using the mean of a random sample of
size 144 to estimate the mean of a population with variance 4.56?
3. The dean of a college wants to use the mean of a random sample to estimate the average amount of times students take to
get from one class to the next, and she wants to be able to assert with 99% confidence that the error is at most 0.25
minute. If it can he presumed from past experience that  = 1.4 minutes, how large a sample will she have to take?
4. Suppose that we want to estimate the true proportion of defectives in a very large shipment of adobe bricks, and that we
want to be at least 95% confident that the error is at most 0.04. How large a sample will we need if
a) We have no idea what the true proportion might be. b) We know that the true proportion doses not exceed 0.12
5. For a test market, find the sample size needed to estimate the true proportion of consumers satisfied with a certain new
product within 0.04 at the 90% confidence level. Assume that you have no strong feeling about what the proportion is.
6. A random sample of size n = 36 is taken from an infinite population with the mean  = 63 and the variance  2 = 81.
What can we assert about the probability of getting a sample mean greater the 66.75?
7. From a population with known standard deviation of 1.65, a sample of 32 items resulted in 34.8 as a sample estimate of
the mean.
a) Find the standard error of the mean
b) Compute an interval estimate that should include the Population mean 99.7 Percent of the time.
7. The University of North Carolina is conducting a study on the average weight of the many bricks that make up the
University’s walkways. Workers are sent to dig up and weigh a sample of 421 bricks and the average brick weight of this
sample was 14.2lb. It is a well-known fact that the standard deviation of brick weight is 0.8 lb.
a) Find the standard error of mean.
b) What is the interval around the sample mean that will include the population mean 95.5 percent of the time?
8. Gwen Taylor, apartment manager for Willow Wood Apartments, wants to inform potential renters about how much
electricity they can expect to use during August. She randomly selects 61 residents and discovers their average electricity
usage in August to be 894-kilowatt hours (kwh). Gwen believes the variance in usage is about 131(kwh) 2
a) Establish an interval estimate for the average August electricity usage so Gwen can be 68.3 percent certain the true
population mean lies within this interval.
b) Repeat part (a) with a 90.0 percent, and 99 percent
c) If the price per kwh is $ 0.12, within what interval can Gwen be 95 percent certain that the average August cost for
electricity will lie?
9. Jon Jackobsen, an over jealous graduate student, has just completed a first draft of his 700-page dissertation. Jon has
typed his paper himself and interested in knowing the average number of typographical errors per page, but does not want
to read the whole paper. Knowing a little bit about Business Statistics, Jon selected 40 pages at random to read and found
that the average number of typos per page was 4.3 and the sample standard deviation was 1.2 typos per page.
a) Calculate the estimated standard error of the mean.
b) Construct for Jon a 90 percent confidence interval for the true average number of typos per page in his paper.
10. Dr Benjamin Shockely, a noted social Psychologist, surveyed 150 top executives and found that 42 percent of them were
unable to add fractions correctly.
a) Estimate the standard error of the proportion of top executives who cannot correctly add fractions.
b) Construct a 99 percent confidence interval for the true proportion of top executives who cannot correctly add
fractions.
12. Student government at the local University sampled 45 textbooks at the University Students Store and determined that of
these 45 textbooks, 60 % percent had been marked up in price more than 50 percent over wholesale cost. Give a 96
percent confidence interval for the proportion of books marked up more than 50 percent by the University Student Store.
13. A study was carried out to determine the effect, if any, of pesticide exposure on blood pressure. A random sample of 100
men was selected from a group of agricultural workers known to have been exposed to pesticides. One hundred randomly
selected workers with no such exposure comprised the control group. The mean systolic blood pressure for the pesticide
cohort was 145 mmHg, with a sample standard deviation of 20 mmHg. The mean systolic blood pressure in the control
group was 120 mmHg with a sample standard deviation of 15 mmHg. Calculate the 90% confidence interval for the true
difference in mean systolic blood pressure between the exposed and unexposed populations.
14. A study shows that 16 of 200 tractors produced on one assembly line required extensive adjustments before they could be
shipped; while the same was true for 14 of 400 tractors produced on another assembly line, find the 95% confidence
interval for the difference in proportion between two assembly lines.