10/14/23, 4:49 PM University of New South Wales - Lecture 5 Quiz

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MATH2089 - Statistics component, T3 2023,
Aaron Hoytash, 14/10/23 at 4:47:20 pm AEDT

Question1: Score 9.35/11

The Charpy V-notch (CVN) technique measures impact energy and is often used to determine
whether or not a material experiences a ductile-to-brittle transition with decreasing temperature. Ten
measurements of impact energy (in J ) on specimens of steel cut at 60∘ C are as follows:

64.6,62.9,62.2,62.7,63.7,64.1,64.5,63.5,62.8,64.0

a) Find a 95% CI for μ, the mean impact energy for that kind of steel.

[
Your response Correct response
62.91
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,
Your response Correct response
64.09
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] (Enter your answer correct to 2 decimal places)

b) Determine the minimum number of specimens so that we are 95% confident of estimating mean
impact energy μ to within 0.4 J of its correct value. Use the sample standard deviation from the
above data as an initial guess of the value for the true standard deviation.

Your response Correct response

17
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(Enter your answer as an integer)

c) What assumptions did you make to construct this confidence interval?

Your response Correct response
Choice 3:
Impact energy is normal.
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 Total grade: 1.0×2/10 + 1.0×2/10 + 1.0×3/10 + 0.5×3/10 = 20% + 20% + 30% + 15%

Question2: Score 9/9

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10/14/23, 4:49 PM University of New South Wales - Lecture 5 Quiz

A survey was conducted on a random sample of students in an engineering course. Out of the 86
students surveyed, 28 of them claim that they have a had a cold during the term.

a) Find a 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of students in the course who have had a
cold during the term.

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Your response Correct response
0.227 0.226545±0.001
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Your response Correct response
0.425 0.424617±0.001
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] (Enter your answer correct to 3 decimal places)

b) To construct this confidence interval we needed to assume that p

^ was approximately normal.

Does the normality assumption seem reasonable in this case?

Your response Correct response

Yes, because ^(1 − p
np ^) > 5 Yes, because np
^(1 − p
^) > 5

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 Total grade: 1.0×2/6 + 1.0×2/6 + 1.0×2/6 = 33% + 33% + 33%

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