Institute of Business Management

College of Computer Science & Information Systems

Assignment # 3
Course Title: Statistical Inference
PRACTIAL # (3a)
The Food and Nutritional Board of the National Academy of Sciences states that the RDA of Iron for adult females under the age
of 51 is 18 mg. The following iron intakes, in milligrams, during a 24 – Hour periods were obtained for 50 randomly selected
adults females under the age of 51.
15.0 18.1 14.4 14.6 10.9 18.1 18.2 18.3 15.0 16.0
12.6 16.6 20.7 19.8 11.6 12.8 15.6 11.0 15.3 9.4
19.5 18.3 14.5 16.6 11.5 16.4 12.5 14.6 11.9 12.5
14.6 11.9 12.5 18.6 13.1 12.1 10.7 17.3 12.4 17.0
6.3 16.8 12.5 16.3 14.7 12.7 16.3 11.5 10.5 12.0
State the assumption for this test,
(i) Write the mean and Varianvce of the adult females under the age of 51.
(ii) Calculate a 90% confidence interval for the for adult females under the age of 51.
iii) At the 1% level of significance, do the data suggest that adult females under the age of 51 are, on the average,
getting less than the EDA of 18 mg of iron?
PRACTICAL # (3b)
A paint manufacturer claims that that the average drying time for its new paint is 2 hours. To test that claim the drying times
are obtained for 25 randomly selected cans of paints. Here are the drying time, in minutes.

12 109 115 121 130

3
12 106 120 116 136
7
13 128 139 110 133
1
Do the data provide sufficient evidence to 12 133 119 135 109 conclude that the mean drying time is
greater than the manufacturer’s claim of 2 120 minutes? Use α= 5%, 7% and 10%
PRACTICAL # (3C) 12 130 135 120 135
The U.S Energy Information Administration 5 publishes data on residential consumption
and expenditures in Residential Energy Consumption Survey: Consumptions and Expenditures. Suppose you want to decide
whether last year’s mean annual fuel expenditure for households using natural gas is different from that of for households
using only electricity. At the 5% significance level, what conclusion would you draw given the data, in dollars, shown in the
following table?
Natural Gas Electricity

200 1456 1394 1480 1376 1452 1213 1014

2
154 1321 1338 1400 1185 1327 1059 1394
1
149 1526 1358 1070 1227 1102 1168 1532
5
180 1478 1376 1180 1221 1351
1
157 1475 1664 1461 1102 976
9
130 1456 1369 1379 987 1002
5
149 1507 1636 1450 1177 1150
5
169 1249 1377 1352 1266 1109
8
164 1557 1491 949 1351 1259
8
150 1355 1574 1179 1393 1456
5
State two assumptions for this test,
(i) Write the mean and Standard deviation for the annual expenditures of Natural gas and Electircity.
(ii) Calculate a 90% confidence interval for mean difference annual fuel expenditures.
(iii) At the 5% significance level, what conclusion would you draw for mean annual fuel expenditure for households
using natural gas is different from that of for households using only electricity.
PRACTICAL # (3d)

Two types of instruments for measuring the amount of sulfur monoxide in the atmosphere are
compared in an air-pollution experiment. It is desired to determine whether the two types of instrument
yield the equal mean measurement. The following readings were recorded for the two instruments:
Sulfur Monoxide
Instrument A 0.96 0.82 0.75 0.61 0.89 0.64 0.81 0.68 0.65
Instrument B 0.87 0.74 0.63 0.55 0.75 0.70 0.69 0.57 0.53

Assuming the populations of measurements to be approximately normally distributed with equal

variances, test the hypothesis that mean measurement of sulfur Monoxide obtained by two instruments
are equal. Using α= 0.01
PRACTICAL # (3e)
Using the data of Practical # (3c), can we conclude that the proportion of the householdshaving the fuel
expenditure more than $1300 using Natural Gas is higher than the proportion of the households using
Electricity only? Use α= 0.05
PRACTICAL # (3f)
Using the data of Practical # (3b), can we conclude that the standard deviation of the drying time is
higher than 10 minutes? Use α= 0.01
PRACTICAL # (3g)
Arandom sample of 400 college students are classified according to class status and news paper reading
habit
Freshman Sophomor Junior Senior
e
Daily 29 41 33 28
Occasionally 32 29 36 39
Not reading 55 34 27 17

Test the hypothesis that the class status and news paper reading habit are independent. Use a 0.01 level
of significance.