Testing of hypothesis Tutorial

A sample of 400 managers is found to have a mean height of 171.38 cms.Can it be reasonably regarded as a sample from a large population of mean height 171.17 cms and standard deviation of 3.30 cms.?

Ques 1.An ambulance service claims that it takes on an average, 8.9 minutes to reach its destination in emergency calls. To check on this claim, the agency which licenses ambulance services has then timed on 50 emergency calls, getting a mean of 9.3 minutes with standard deviation of 1.8 minutes. at the level of significance of 0.05, does this constitute evidence that the figure claimed is too low?

Ques 2.A firm allows its employees to pursue additional income earning activities such as consultancy, tuitions, etc. in their out of office hours. The average weekly earning through these additional income earning activities is Rs. 5000 per month per employee. A new HR manger who has recently joined the firm feels that this amount may have changed. For verifying his doubts, he has taken a random sample of 45 employees and computed the average additional income of these 45 employees. The sample mean is computed as Rs. 5500 and the sample standard deviation is Rs.1000.Use =0.10 to test whether the additional average income has changed in the population

Ques 3.In a nationwide survey, suppose 100 boys and 50 girls are sampled. For boys, the average number of absences in the first grade is 15 with a standard deviation of 7; for girls, the average number of absences is 10 with a standard deviation of 6. Is there any significant difference in mean absences for boys and girls?

Ques 4.In India the colour television market is growing very fast and estimated to reach a size of 21 millions units by 2014-2015. 30% of the market is catered to by 20 colour TV. A researcher believes that the market size for 20 colour TV has increased. For testing the belief, the researcher has taken a random sample of 130 colour TV purchasers. Out of 130 purchasers, 50 purchased 20 colour TV. The researcher wants to test this belief taking =0.05

Ques 5.A machine produced 16 defective articles in a batch of 500. after overhauling it produced 3 defectives in a batch of 100. Has the machine improved?

Ques6.Starting salaries for MBA grads at two

universities are normally distributed with the following means and standard deviations. Samples from each school are taken
University 1 Mean Std. Dev. sample size 62,000 $/yr 14,500 $/yr 50 University 2 60,000 $/yr 18,300 $/yr 60

 Is there any significant difference in starting salary offered by the two universities