Unit 5 - Hypothesis Testing

Q. A sample of 400 male students is found to have a mean height of 171.38

CM. Can it be reasonably regarded as a sample from large population
whose mean height and standard deviation are 171.1 CM and 3.30 CM
respectively? Frame null hypothesis and test it on 5% level of significance.

Ans: Z = 1.27

Q. The mean breaking strength of the cable supplied by a manufacturer is

1800 with a standard deviation of 100. Buy a new technique in the
manufacturing process it is claimed that the breaking strength of the cables
has increased. In order to test this claim a sample of 50 cables is tested. It is
found that the mean breaking strength is 1850. Can we support the claim at
1% level of significance?

Ans : Z = 3.54

Q. The mean height obtained from a random sample of size 100 is 64

inches. The standard deviation of the distribution of height of the
population is known to be 3 inches. Test the statement that mean height of
the population is 67 inches at 5% level of significance. Also set up 99%
limits of the mean height of the population. Calculate range of 95%
confidence limit.

Ans : Z= 10 , 63.2 to 64.8

Q. A sample of 100 tyres is taken from a lot. The mean life of tyres is found
to be 39350 kms with a standard deviation of 3260 kms. Put the sample
come from a population with mean life of 40000 kms ? Test the statement
at one percent level of significance and set up 99% confidence limit within
which the mean life of tyre is expected to lie.

Ans : Z = 1.99 , 38509 to 40191

Q. Intelligence test on two groups of boys and girls have given following
results:

Mean SD N
Girls 75 15 150
Boys 70 20 250
Is there a significant difference in the mean scores obtained by boys and
girls at 1% level of significance?

Ans : Z = 2.84

Q. A man buys 50 electric bulbs of Philips and 50 electric bulbs of Bajaj. He

finds that Philips bulbs give an average life of 1500 hours with a standard
deviation of 60 hours and Bajaj bulbs gave and average life of 1512 hours
with the standard deviation of 80 hours. Is there a significant difference in
the mean life of the two makes of bulbs at one % level of significance?

Ans: Z = .849
Q. A sample of the height of 6400 English men has a mean of 67.85 inches
and a standard deviation of 2.56 inches while a sample of height of 1600
Austrians has a mean of 68.55 inches and standard deviation of 2.52 inches.
Do the data indicate that Austrians are on an average taller than English
men at 1 % level of significance ?

Ans : Z = 9.9

Q. Two samples of 100 electric bulbs each has a mean score of 1500 and
1550, standard deviation of 50 and 60. Can it be concluded that these two
brands differ significantly each other at 1% level of significance ?

Ans : Z = 6.4

Q. The manufacturer of a certain make of electric bulbs claims that his bulb
have a mean life of 25 months with a standard deviation of 5 months. A
random sample of 6 bulbs taken an the life of these bulbs in months are 24,
26, 30, 20 20 & 18 .

Can you regard the producers claim to be valid at 1% level of significance ?

( v = 5 , t(0.01) =4.032)

Ans : t = 1.084

Q. Random sample of size 16 has 53 as a mean. The sum of square of the

deviations taken from mean is 135. Can this sample be regarded as taken
from the population having 56 as a mean? Obtain 95% and 99% confidence
limits of the mean of the population.

( V = 15 , t( .05) = 2.13 & t(.01)= 2.95)

Ans : t = 4 , 51.4 to 54.6, 50.788 to 55.21

Q. The lifetime of electric bulbs for a random sample of 10 from a large

consignment gave the following data:

Item 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Life in '000
hours 4.2 4.6 3.9 4.1 5.2 3.8 3.9 4.3 4.4 5.6

Can we accept the hypothesis that the average lifetime of bulbs is 4000
hours? ( V = 9 , t(.05) = 2.26)

Ans: t = 2.148

Q. Two types of drugs were used on 5 & 7 patients for reducing their
weight. Drug a was imported and drug B was indigenous. The decrease in
the weight after using the drug for 6 months was as follows :

Drug A 10 12 13 11 14
Drug B 8 9 12 14 15 10 9

Is there a significant difference in the efficacy of the two drugs? ( V= 10,

t(.05) = 2.23)

Ans: t = .735
Q. For a random sample of 10 persons fed on diet A, the increased weight
in pounds in a certain period were 10, 6, 16, 17, 13, 12, 8, 14, 15 , 9 .
For another random sample of 12 persons fed on diet B , the increase in the
weight in the same period are 7, 13 , 22, 15 , 12, 14, 18, 8, 21, 23, 10,
17. Test whether the diet A and B differ significantly as regards there effect
on increase in weight.

( V = 20, t ( .05) = 2.09)

Ans: t = 1.51

Q. Two laboratories A and B carry out independent estimates of fat content

in ice cream made by firm. A sample is taken from each batch and sent to
laboratories. The fat content obtained by laboratories is given below :

Batch 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
No.
Lab A 7 8 7 3 8 6 9 4 7 8
Lab B 9 8 8 4 7 7 9 6 6 6

Is there a significant difference between the mean fat content obtained by

two laboratory A and B ?

You may use following extracts from t table in answering the question.

Degree of 8 9 10 16 18 20
freedom(v)
5% value of t 2.31 2.26 2.23 2.12 2.10 2.09
Ans : t = .387

Q. To verify whether a course in accounting improved performance, a

similar test was given to 12 participants before the course and after the
course. The original marks were 44, 40, 61, 52, 32, 44, 70, 41, 67, 72, 53, and
72. After the course the marks were in the same order 53 38 69 57 46 39 73
48 73 74 60 and 78. Was the course useful ? For v = 11, t (0 .05) = 2.201

Ans : t = 3.44

Q. The sales data of an item in 6 shops before and after a special

promotion campaign are given below:

Shops A B C D E F
Before 53 28 31 48 50 42
campaign
After 58 29 30 55 56 45
campaign

Can the campaign be just to be a success ? Test at 5% level of significance.

For v = 5 , t (.05) 2.57

Ans : t = 2.78

Q. Two salesman A and B are working in a certain district. From a sample

survey conducted by the head office, the following results were obtained.
State whether there is any significant difference in the average sales
between the two salesman.

A B
No. of sales 10 18
Average Sales( in Rs) 170 205
Standard deviation ( in Rs) 20 25
For v = 26 , t ( .05) = 2.056

Ans : t = 3.79

Q. Two samples of 5 & 6 items gave the following data :

Mean of first sample 40

Standard deviation of first sample 8
Mean of second sample 50
Standard deviation of second sample 10

Is the difference of mean significant at 5% level of significance ?

For v=9 , t(.05) = 2.26

Ans : t = 1.846

Q. Two random samples were drawn from two normal populations and
their values are :

A 66 67 75 76 82 84 88 90 92
B 64 66 74 78 82 85 87 92 93 95 97
Test whether the populations have same variance at 5% level of
significance. ( F = 3.36 at 5% level of significance)

Ans : F = 1.41

In a sample of 8 observations, the sum of squared deviation of items from

the mean was 84.4. in another sample of 10 observations the value was
found to be 102.6. test whether the difference is significant between the
two populations from where these two samples are taken at 5% level of
significance( F(.05) = 3.29)

Ans : 1.06

Q. Two samples are drawn from two normal population. From the following
data test whether the two samples have same variance at 5% level( F (.05) =
3.68):

Sample 60 65 71 74 76 82 85 87
1
Sample 61 66 67 85 78 63 85 86 88 91
2

Ans : 1.467
Q. In an anti malarial campaign in a certain area we mean was administered
to 812 persons out of total population of 3248. The number of fever cases
are shown below:

Treatment Fever No Fever Total

Quinine 20 792 812
No Quinine 220 2216 2436
Total 240 3008 3248

Test weather quinine in effective for the treatment of malaria at 5 % level.(

X2(.05) = 3.84)

Ans : X2 = 38.393

Q. Based on information on 1000 randomly selected fields about the

tenancy status of cultivation of these fields and use of fertilizers, collected
in an agro-economic survey, the following classification was noted:

Owned Rented Total

Using Fertilizers 416 184 600
Not using 64 336 400
Fertilizers
Total 480 520 1000

Would you conclude that owner cultivators are more inclined towards the
use of fertilizers at 5% level of significance ( X2(.05) = 3.84)

Ans : X2 = 273.504
Q. In an experiment on immunization of cattle from tuberculosis, the
following results were obtained:

Affected Not Affected

Inoculated 12 26
Not inoculated 16 6

Calculate Chi square statistic and discuss the effect of vaccine in controlling
susceptibility to tuberculosis at 5% level of significance ( X 2(.05) =
3.84)

Ans : X2 = 7.796

Q. From the data given below about the treatment of 250 patients suffering
from a disease. State whether the new treatment is superior to the
conventional treatment( X2(.05) = 3.84):

Favorable Not Favorable Total

New 140 30 170
Conventional 60 20 80
Total 200 50 250

Ans : X2 = 1.839

Q. 1000 students at college level are created according to their IQ score

and their economic conditions. Test whether they are is any association
between economic condition and level of IQ( X2(.05) = 5.99):
Economic IQ level Total
Condition
High Medium Low
Rich 160 300 140 600
Poor 140 100 160 400
Total 300 400 300 1000

Ans : X2 = 65.27

Q. A certain drug is claimed to be effective in curing cold. In an experiment

on 500 persons with cold, half of them were given drug and half of them
were given sugar pills. The patients reaction towards treatment are
recorded in the following table :

Helped Harmed No effect Total

Drug 150 30 70 250
Sugar pills 130 40 80 250
Total 280 70 150 500

On the basis of above data, can it be concluded that there is significant

difference in the effect of drug and sugar pills ? ( V=2 , χ2 (.05) = 5.99)