BST1034 STATISTICS FOR MANAGERS TRI 2 2022/2023

Tutorial 5: Hypothesis for one Population

1. A sample of 8 independent observations provides the following:

3.6 3.9 3.8 4.5 4.9 4.2 4.4 3.8

Can you conclude at 5% level of significance that the mean is below 5?

2. A house cleaning service claims that they can clean a four bedroom house in less
than 2 hours. A sample of n = 16 houses is taken and the sample mean is found to
be 1.97 hours and the sample standard deviation is found to be 0.1 hours. Conduct
a hypothesis testing by using 0.05 level of significant to verify the claim.

3. The quality control-manager at a light bulb factory needs to determine whether

the mean life of a large shipment of light bulbs is equal to 375 hours. The
population standard deviation is 100 hours. A random sample of 64 light bulbs
indicates a sample mean life of 350 hours. At the 0.05 level of significance, is
there evidence that the mean life is different from 375 hours?

4. A stationary store wants to estimate the mean retail value of greeting cards that
has in its inventory. A random sample of 100 greeting cards indicates a mean
value of RM2.55 and a standard deviation of RM0.44. Is there evidence that the
population mean retail value of the greetings cards is different from RM2.50? Use
0.05 level of significance.

5. A company that makes and markets a device that is aimed at helping people quit
smoking claims that at least 70 percent of the people who have used the product
have quit smoking. To test this, a random sample of n = 100 product users was
selected. Of these, 65 people were found to have quit smoking. Test whether the
claim is true by using a 0.05 significance level.

6. The sports page in a local newspaper reported that 70% of males over the age of
18 in Malaysia would skip an important event such as a birthday party or a
wedding dinner to watch their favourite professional sports team play. A random
sample of 676 adult males over the age of 18 in Melaka reveals that 507 would be
willing to skip an important event to watch their favourite team play. Can you
conclude at 1% significance level that the proportion of adult males who would
skip an important event to watch their favourite team play is greater in Melaka
than in the nation as a whole?

7. A standard policy for academic counselling helps 72% of all repeating students to
pass their final examination in an average of 43 counselling sessions. The
counsellor considers supporting a new counselling policy if it is effective in
reducing the number of counselling sessions while retaining the passing rate. A
study on 50 repeating students who were counselled under the new policy reveals

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that 32 of them passed their final examination in an average of 40 counselling

sessions with a standard deviation of 9 sessions. Can we conclude that

(i) the passing rate under the new counselling policy is lower than 72% at 1%
significance level?
(ii) the new counselling policy is effective in reducing the number of
counselling sessions at 5% significance level?