1. A car company claims that their Sedan averages 31 Miles Per Gallon (MPG).

You randomly select 8 Sedan from local car

dealerships and test their gas mileage under similar conditions. You get the following MPG scores:
MPG: 30 28 32 26 33 25 28 30
Does the actual gas mileage for these cars deviate significantly from 31 (alpha = .05)?

2. In certain food experiment to compare two types of baby foods A and B, the following results of increase in weight (lbs) we
observed in 8 children as follows.

Examine the significance of increase in weight of children due to food B.

3. A research study was conducted to examine the differences between older and younger adults on perceived life satisfaction.
A pilot study was conducted to examine this hypothesis. Ten older adults (over the age of 70) and ten younger adults
(between 20 and 30) were give a life satisfaction test (known to have high reliability and validity). Scores on the measure
range from 0 to 60 with high scores indicative of high life satisfaction; low scores indicative of low life satisfaction.

Older Younger Variable N Mean StDev SE Mean

Adults Adults Older Adults 10 44.50 8.68 2.75
45 34 Younger Adults 10 28.10 8.54 2.70
38 22 Difference 10 16.40 15.07 4.77
52 15 T-Test of mean difference = 0 (vs not = 0): T-Value = 4.26 P-Value = 0.000
48 27
25 37
39 41
51 24
46 19
55 26
46 36

4. Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968) informed classroom teachers that some of their students showed unusual potential for
intellectual gains. Eight months later the students identified to teachers as having potential for unusual intellectual gains
showed significantly greater gains performance on a test said to measure IQ than did children who were not so identified.

Statistical Test = 3.534, and P-value < 0.05.