MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD

PRACTICE PROBLEMS

TOPIC: DATA MANAGEMENT (STATISTICS)

Perform hypothesis testing for the following problems. Specifically, identify the appropriate statistical
tool to be applied.

1. Data from a school census show that the average mass of college students was 45 kg, with a
standard deviation of 3 kg. A sample of 100 college students was found to have an average mass
of 47 kg. Are the 100 college students really heavier than the rest, using 0.05 significance level?
2. A researcher knows that the average height of Filipino women is 1.525 meters. A random sample
of 26 women was found to have a mean height of 1.56 meters with a standard deviation of 0.10
meters. Is there a reason to believe that the sample of women is significantly taller than the
others?
3. A researcher wishes to find out whether or not there is a significant difference between the daily
allowances of morning and afternoon students in his school. By random sampling, he took a
sample of 239 students in the morning session. These students were found to have a mean daily
allowance of P142.00. The researcher also took a sample of 209 students in the afternoon session.
They were found to have a mean daily allowance of P148.00. The total population of students in
that school has a standard deviation of Php40. Is there a significant difference between the two
samples at 0.01 level of significance?
4. A sample survey of a television program in Metro Manila shows that 75 out of 250 women, and
80 out of 200 men dislike this program. We want to decide whether the difference between the
two sample proportions, 80/200 and 75/250, is significant or not at 0.05 level of significance.
5. A teacher wishes to test whether or not the Flexible Learning (FL) is more effective than the
Traditional Method. She picks two classes of approximately equal intelligence (verified through
an administered IQ test). She gathers a sample of 18 students to whom she uses the FL and
another sample of 14 students to whom she uses the Traditional Method. After the experiment,
an objective test revealed that the first sample got a mean score of 28.6 with a standard deviation
of 5.9, while the second group got a mean score of 21.7 with a standard deviation of 4.6. Based
on the result of the administered test, can we say that the FL is more effective than the Traditional
Method?

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