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Tutorial 9. Hypothesis testing

1. A machine is considered in good working order when it produces steels rods with a mean
length of 25.00 cm and standard deviation of 1 cm. A sample of 36 rods is taken and the
average length of these rods is found to be 25.30 cm. Can the machine still be considered
in good working order?
a) State the null and the alternative hypotheses.
b) Using a level of significance of 0.05, determine whether the machine is still working
properly.
c) If, in reality, the machine performance has changed over time, and the mean length of
the rods produced now is  = 25.50,what is the probability of a type II error? Assume
type I error probability is still 5%.

(Medium)

2. A test of the tensile strength of 6 ropes of the same kind showed a mean breaking
strength of 7,750 N and a standard deviation of 145 N, whereas the manufacturer claims a
mean of at least 8,000 N. Do you support the manufacturer’s claim at a level of
significance of 0.05?

(Easy)

3. In a controlled laboratory experiment, scientists at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory

discovered that 25% of a certain strain of rats, when subjected to a 20% coffee bean diet
and then force-fed a powerful cancer-causing chemical later developed cancerous
tumours. Would we have a reason to believe that the proportion of rats developing
tumours when subjected to this diet is in fact higher than 25%, if the result showed that 16
out of 48 rats developed tumours after the diet? Use a 0.05 level of significance.

(Easy)

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4. Three marbles are selected from an urn containing 5 red marbles and 3 green marbles.
After the number X of red marbles is recorded, the marbles are replaced in the urn and the
experiment repeated 112 times. The results obtained are as follows:

x 0 1 2 3
f 1 31 55 25

Test the hypothesis, at the 0.05 level of significance, that the recorded data may be fitted
by the hypergeometric distribution h(x;8,3,5), with x = 0, 1, 2, 3.

(Medium)

5. A random sample of married men, all retired, was classified according to education and
number of children:

Number of children
Education 0–1 2 – 3 Over 3
Elementary 14 37 32
Secondary 19 42 17
Tertiary 12 17 10

Test the hypothesis, at the 0.05 level of significance, that the size of a family is
independent of the level of education attained by the father.

(Difficult)

Additional practices (optional)

Test on single mean: Exercises 10.19, 10.21, 10.23, 10.25, 10.27, 10.29.

Test on single proportion: Exercises 10.55, 10.57, 10.59.

Test on single variance: Exercises 10.67, 10.69, 10.71,.

Test on two means: Exercises 10.31, 10.33, 10.35, 10.39, 10.41.

Test on two proportions: Exercises 10.61, 10.63, 10.65.

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Test on two variances: Exercises 10.73, 10.75, 10.77.

Test on goodness-of-fit: Exercises 10.79, 10.81, 10.83.

Test on independence: Exercises 10.87, 10.89.

Test on Homogeneity: Exercises 10.91, 10.93, 10.95.

All exercises can be from in Chapter 10 of “Ronald E. Walpole, Raymond H. Myers, Sharon
L. Myers & Keying Ye. Probability & Statistics for Engineers and Scientists. 9th Ed. Boston,
MA: Pearson, c2012.” Answers can be found in Appendix B.