ACTIVITY – Hypotheses Testing

t-Test and z-Test

Directions: Solve the following problems using the Stepwise method of Hypothesis Testing.

1. The data below represent the number of hours of pain relief provided by two brands
of headache tablets administered to 24 subjects. These subjects were randomly
divided into two groups and each group was treated with a different brand.
Brand x 1 : 5, 8, 7, 3, 4, 8, 7, 5, 6, 7, 5, 5

Brand x 2 : 3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 3, 5, 4, 2, 3
Use ∝=.01, test if there a significant difference between the pain relief provided
by the two brands of headache tablets?

2. Ten subjects were given an attitude test on a controversial issue. Then they were
shown a film favorable to the ten subjects and the same attitude test was
administered. Make a directional test at ∝=.05 .
Pre-test: 16, 18, 16, 24, 20, 25, 22, 18, 15, 15
Post-test: 20, 20, 24, 28, 20, 30, 23, 24, 19, 15

3. A law student who wants to verify the claim of the RTC Judge that convicted
illegal gamblers spend on the average 10.8 months in jail. A random sample
of 40cases from court files, showed that x=11.8 months and the SD = 3.5
months. Test the null hypothesis that the average months of illegal gamblers
spend in jail is 10.8 months at .05 level of significance.

4. A study was made to check whether it is true that in the daily average, the
income of men earn more than women in a certain factory. The following
are the data:
Sex Number of Mean SD
Workers
Male 75 ₱ 418.22 ₱ 36.20
Female 60 ₱ 381.65 ₱ 33.85

At .05 level of significance, test that there is no significant difference between the income
of male and female workers.