Two sample Test

• An electrical firm manufactures light bulbs that have a lifetime

that is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 800
hours and a standard deviation of 40 hours. Test the
hypothesis, if a random sample of 30 bulbs has an average life
of 788 hours.

• In a research report, Richard H. Weindruch of the UCLA Medical

School claims that mice with an average life span of 32 months
will live to be about 40 months old when 40% of the calories in
their diet are replaced by vitamins and protein. Is there any
reason to believe that µ < 40 if 64 mice that are placed on this
diet have an average life of 38 months with a standard
deviation of 5.8 months?
Two sample Test.
• Tests concerning two means represent a set of very important
analytical tools for the scientist or engineer. Two independent
random samples of sizes 𝑛1 and 𝑛2 , respectively, are drawn
from two populations with means 𝜇1 and 𝜇2 and variances σ2
1
and σ2 . We know that the random variable has a standard
2
normal distribution.
• To compare customer satisfaction levels of two competing cable
television companies, 174 customers of Company 1 and 355 customers
of Company 2 were randomly selected and were asked to rate their
cable companies on a five-point scale, with 1 being least satisfied and
5 most satisfied. The survey results are summarized in the following
table:

Test at the 1% level of significance whether the data provide sufficient

evidence to conclude that Company 1 has a higher mean satisfaction
rating than does Company 2. Use the critical value approach.