HYPOTHESIS TESTING SINGLE POPULATION MEAN

1. Super Duper Cee Pills were advertised as having 750 mg of vitamin C per
pill. A consumers group believed the amount of vitamin C was less than
advertised. Based on the following sample, was this advertisement justified?
Use

=0.01

700
720
760
780
710

755
720
720
730
740

760
725
720
695
715

2. A researcher wanted to determine whether a program for routine cholesterol

screening of college men would identify high serum cholesterol levels. The
researcher decided that above 200 would be high. Twenty students were
randomly selected for cholesterol screening, and the results were given
below. Is there any evidence that asymptomatic college men have elevated
serum cholesterol values? Would a large-scale screening program be
warranted? Use
260
150
160
200

210
220
220
210

=0.05

240
190
250
170

230
210
180
250

260
240
200
220

asymptomatic [yssimpt mttik]

adjective
without obvious symptoms: not showing or producing indications of a disease or other medical condition
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3. In one part of a test developed by a psychologist, the test subject is asked to

form a word by unscrambling the letters ciiatttsss. (Try it yourself). Given
below are the times (in seconds) required by 15 randomly selected persons to
unscramble the letters. At

=0.05

the mean time is equal to 60 seconds.

Data set:
68.7 83.7 39.5
68.6 26.0 34.6
43.4 43.6 85.3

level of significance, test the claim that

27.4 68.9 61.1

48.4 60.5 26.3

4. The HRD head observes that absenteeism is high in graveyard shift than in
the morning shift. The daily time record of the employees shows the number
of their absences for a period of two weeks.
Morning shift
2
3
4
3
2
1
2
4
4
6
5
3
1
2
Graveyard shift
3
2

3
4

3
3

5
5

5
5

6
4

3
3

5. Twelve different tablets from each of the two competing cold medicines are
randomly selected and tested for the amount of acetaminophen each
contains, and the results (in milligrams follow)
Dozen
ol
Niteze

472

487

506

512

489

503

511

501

495

50
4
562 512 523 528 554 513 516 510 524 51
0
At 0.05 level of significance, test the claim that the mean amount of
acetaminophen is the same in each brand.

49
4
52
4

46
2
50
8

6. It is claimed that the new diet will reduce a persons weight by 4.5 kilograms
on the average in a period of 2 weeks. The weights of 7 women who followed
this diet were recorded before and after a two-week period:
woman
1
2
3
4
5
6
Weight
58.5
60.3
61.7
69.0
64.0
62.6
before
Weight
60.0
54.9
58.1
62.1
58.5
59.9
after
At 0.05 level of significance, test if the new diet is really effective?

7
56.7
54.4

7. A teacher proposes a course designed to increase the reading speed and

comprehension. To evaluate the effectiveness of this course, the teacher tests
students before and after the course. Test the claim that the course is
effective.
Data: reading speed/time (in seconds)
student
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

before
100
170
135
167
200
118
127
95
112
136

After
136
160
120
169
200
140
163
101
138
129

8. A study was conducted to investigate some effects of physical training. At

0.05 level of significance, test the claim that the mean pre-training weight
equals the mean post-training weight. The weights are in kilograms. What do
you conclude about the effect of training on weight?
Pre-training weight
99
57
62
69
74
77
59
92
70
85

Post-training weight
94
57
62
69
66
76
58
88
70
84

9. A dose of the drug Captropil, designed to lower systolic blood pressure, is

administered to 10 randomly selected volunteers, with the following results.
Test the effectiveness of the drug
systolic blood pressure
before pill
120
136
160
98
115
110
180
190
138
128

systolic blood pressure after

pill
118
122
143
105
98
98
180
175
105
112

10.An experiment in teaching introductory statistics was recently conducted at

XYZ University. One section was taught by demonstration method and
another section was taught by videotaped lecture where the students are free
to view at any time and as often as they wanted. Students were randomly
assigned to each of the two sections and an achievement test was given at
the end of the treatment. Random test scores were collected from each
section. Is there a significant difference in the student performance given
different teaching methods?
videotape
37
30
26
31
29
32
19
37
28
26

Demonstration
27
24
22
19
20
20
23
14
15
13

11.Per capita expenditures for police protection for 30 cities are reported for
1999 and 2000. Is there a significant increase in the per capita expenditures
for policemen?
Year 1999
180
95
87
101
52
117
115
88
85
100
167
101
120
78
107
55
78
92
99
103
98
65
102
110
98
95
97
110
120
121

Year 2000
210
110
124
131
197
200
119
87
125
150
225
209
201
141
94
248
140
131
152
178
150
160
170
150
100
112
120
114
98
162

12.The table below shows the salaries of three groups of employees as high
school graduate, college graduate, and post graduate. The salaries are
presented in the table below. Figures are in thousand pesos.
High School Graduate
15
16
18
21
18
17

College Graduate
16
19
28
24
28
30
31
21
27

Post Graduate
17
24
27
20
31
30
30
32
31
35

13.A medical researcher wishes to know whether there is a difference in the

mean length of time it takes the four types of medicines to take effect and
provide relief for a person suffering from fever
Medicine A
10
11
15
12

Medicine B
10
15
20
25
16

Medicine C
14
19
25
26
18

Medicine D
20
15
17
12
19
20

Is there difference in the mean length of time? Use the 0.05 level of
significance

14.A teacher wants to find out whether academic performance is independent of

the type of school a student graduated from. He sampled 150 students and
results are shown below. At the 0.05 level of significance, can the teacher say
that there is a relationship between academic performance and type of
school?
Type of school
Public
Private

Academic
performance
Excellent
Very good
Good
Fair
Poor
Total

18
15
16
14
15
78

Total

20
12
19
13
8
72

38
27
35
27
23
150

15.A gym instructor wants to determine whether age of a person has something
to do with the number of days that such person engages into exercise. A
random sample of 264 persons is selected and the results are classified and
tabulated below:
At the 0.05 significance level, is there enough evidence to conclude that age
is related to the number of days spent exercising per week?
Age
Below 18
19-30
31-42
43-54
55
and
above
Total

0-1
7
6
8
18
8
47

Days per week spent exercising

2-3
4-5
8
10
25
35
9
20
12
13
6
6
60

84

6-7
11
20
30
7
5

Total
36
86
67
50
25

73

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