HOMEWORK_13

Exercises
1. Find the p-value for each of the following hypothesis tests

a) ; ; ; ; ;

b) ; ; ; ; ;

2. Consider ; against the alternative .

A random sample of 60 observations taken from this population produced a sample mean of 31.4
and a standard deviation of 8.
a) Calculate the p-value.
b) Considering the p-value of part a), would you reject the null hypothesis if the test were made
at the significance level of 0.05?
c) Considering the p-value of part a), would you reject the null hypothesis if the test were made
at the significance level of 0.01?

3. In a problem of testing against , the following sample quantities are

recorded.

a) State the test statistic and find the rejection region with .

b) Calculate the test statistic and draw a conclusion with .

c) Find the p-value and interpret the results.
4. Make the following hypothesis tests about p.

a) ; ; ; ;

b) ; ; ; ;
5. A food company is planning to market a new type of ice cream. Before marketing this ice
cream, the company wants to find what percentage of the people like it. The company’s
management has decided that it will market this ice cream only if at least 35% of people like it.
The company’s research department selected a random sample of 400 persons and asked them to
test this ice cream. Of these 400 persons, 128 said they liked it.
Testing at 2.5% significance level, can you conclude that the company should market this
yogurt?
6. A mail order company claims that at least 60% of all orders are mailed within 48 hours. The
quality control department took a sample of 500 orders and found that 310 of them were mailed
within 48 hours of the placement of the orders. Testing at 1% significance level, can you
conclude that the company’s claim is true?
7. Perform the following tests of hypothesis assuming that the population of paired differences
are normally distributed.

a) ; ; ; ; ;

b) ; ; ; ; ;
8. A company claims that the course it offers significantly increases the writing speed of
secretaries. The following table gives the scores of 8 secretaries before and after they attended
this course

Before 81 75 89 91 65 70 90 69

After 97 72 93 110 78 69 115 75

Using the 5% significance level, can you conclude that attending this course increases the
writing speed of secretaries?
Assume that the population of paired differences is (approximately) normally distributed.
9. Daily wage is $13.62 for transportation workers and $11.61 for factory workers. Assume that
these two estimates are based on random samples of 1000 and 1200 workers taken, respectively,
from the two populations. Also assume that the standard deviations of the two populations are
$1.85 and $1.40, respectively.
a) Test at the 5% significance level if the mean daily wage of transportation workers and factory
workers are the same against the alternative that it is higher for transportation workers.
10. An investigation was carried out to determine if women employees are as well paid as their
male counterparts. Random samples of 75 males and 64 females are selected. Their mean salaries
were 45 530 and 44 620, standard deviations were 780 and 750, correspondingly. If you were to
test the null hypothesis that the mean salaries are equal against the two sided alternative, what
would be the conclusion of your test with ?