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KUIS

1. Suppose that you flip a coin 100 times, and you get 55 heads and 45 tails. You want to
know whether the coin is fair, so you conduct a hypothesis test to help you decide.
What are the null and alternative hypotheses in this situation? (Note: p represents the
overall probability of getting a heads, also known as the proportion of heads over an
infinite number of coin flips.)

2. A school principal claims that the students in his school are intelegent than the other
schools. For this purpouse, an average IQ of 107 is determine in a sample of 25
students from the school. In general population, the IQ averages 100 with standard
deviation of 15. Is there suffiient efidence to support the principal’s hypothesis?
a. State an appropriate hypothesis
b. Is the test one-sided or two-sided?
c. Perform the test and and draw a conclusion with a signifcan level of 5%.

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