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FACULTY OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY

EXAMINER ANSWER SCRIPT (TEST 1 SET A)
SEMESTER: II SESSION: 18/19
Course: APPLIED STATISTICS Prepared By:
Course Code: BUM2413 Verified By:
QUESTION 1
(i) All the currently enrolled students at UMP/ all UMP students
(ii) Tangible
(iii) 250 UMP students
(iv) X: ratio-level, Y: ratio-level, Z: nominal-level
QUESTION 2
(i) Voluntary sampling
(ii) Yes. Samplings are too random.
QUESTION 3
(i) 25% of the female workers have age more than 46 years old.
OR 75% of the female workers have age less than 46 years old.
(ii) IQRmale  Q3  Q1  43  27  16 IQR female  Q3  Q1  46  28  18
The age variation among the male workers is less as compared to female workers
since ( IQRmale  16)  ( IQR female  18)
(iii) Box plots

(iv) The age distribution of female workers is right-skewed.

Hence, most of the data clustered on the left.
(v) Since data for male workers is male workers is left-skewed, then the median is the best
for measure of central tendency and interquartile range (IQR) is the best to describe the
variability for the age for both.
(vi) Based on the box plots, female workers have slightly lower median age (34 years) as
compared to male workers’ median age (35 years)
OR 50% of female workers have age above 34 years and 50% of male workers age is
35 years.

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OR Maximum age of female worker is 64 years old, whereas for male worker is 45
years old.
QUESTION 4
(i) The length of steel bars.
(ii)
Treatment 1 Treatment 2
x1  154.8 x2  152.8
s1  3.0111 s2  2.6162
n1  10 n2  10
(iii)
t0.03,18  2.0071 (B1)

sp 
  
9 4.41712  9 2.61622   2.8206 (M1)
10  10  2

 1 1 
  x2  x1   t , s p  , 
 n2 n1 
 1 1 
 152.8  154.8   2.0071 2.8206   ,  (M1)
 10 10 
 4.5318 ,   inch (A1,A1)

(iv) Width narrower. Estimation error decreases

QUESTION 5
(i)
Process 1 Process 2
190 280
p1   0.95 p2   0.9333
200 300

z0.05  1.6449 (B1)

Process A-Process B
  0.95 0.05   0.9333 0.0667  
  0.95  0.9333  1.6449   (M1)
 200 300 
 
 0.018 , 0.0514  (A1,A1)
OR

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Process B - Process A
  0.9333 0.0667    0.95 0.05 
  0.9333  0.95  1.6449   (M1)
 300 200 
 
 0.0514,0.018 (A1,A1)

(ii) We are 90% confident that the difference in true proportion of anchor nuts that meet the
standard specification between the two processes is between 8% more by process B and
5.14% more by process A compared to each other, respectively.

OR
We are 90% confident that the difference in true proportion of anchor nuts that meet the
standard specification between the two processes is between 5.14% more by process A
and 8% more by process B compared to each other, respectively.

0.0514   0.018
(iii) E   0.0347
2

QUESTION 6

 02.975,19  8.9065
 02.025,19  32.8523
s 2  0.0013

A 95% CI for population standard deviation

 190.0013  190.0013  
  , 

 32 .8523 8 .9065 
 (0.0274 ,0.0527) liter

We are 95% confident that the population standard deviation of the volume of the bottles filled
by a machine lies within 0.0274 and 0.0527 liter.

QUESTION 7

Level 1 Level 2
n=6 n=6
s = 5.5742 s = 2.3622
s2 = 31.0717 s2 = 5.58

1
f0.01,5,5 =10.9670 f0.99,5,5 
10.9670

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A 98% confidence interval for the ratio of the two population variances between stress levels 2
and 1
 5.58
10.967  
1 5.58
 ,
 31.0717 10.9670 31.0717 

= (0.0164, 1.9695)

QUESTION 8
Step 1
H 0 :   15.7
H1 :   15.7 (claim)

Step 2
x  13.6636

s  2.5436 OR s 2  6.4699 OR se  0.4428

13.6636  15.7
Z test   4.5991
2.5436 / 33

OR
13.6636  15.7
Z test   4.5989
0.4428
Step 3
 z0.025  1.96
Step 4
Since ( Ztest  4.5989)    Z 0.025  1.96  , Reject H0. Accept the claim.

Step 5
At   0.025 , there is sufficient enough evidence to support the claim that the average height
of sunflower seedlings is less than the standard height of 15.7 cm

QUESTION 9
Step 1

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(Claim)

Step 2
x  4.2 s  11.9

42  46
ttest   1.1644
11.9 / 12

Step 3

Step 4
Since, (ttest  1.1644)   t0.005,11  3.1058 Do not reject H0. Reject the claim.

Step 5
At 0.005 level of significance, there is insufficient evidence to support the claim that the
average vacuum cleaner electrical usage is more than 46 kWh per year

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