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Statistics Problems 2 Chapter 9
Statistics Problems 2 Chapter 9
Statistics Problems 2 Chapter 9
as much as 8 points? Assume the populations to be approximately normally distributed with equal variances.
11. To find out whether a new serum will arrest leukemia, 9 mice, all with an advanced stage of the disease, are selected. Five mice receive the treatment and 4 do not. Survival times, in years, from the time the
experiment commenced are as follows:
Treatment:
2.1
5.3
1.4
0.9
No treatment
1.9
0.5
2.8
3.1
At the 0.05 level of significance can the serum be said to be effective? Assume the two distributions to be
normally distributed with equal variances.
12. A large automobile manufacturing company is trying to decide whether to purchase brand A or brand
B tires for its new models. To help arrive at a decision, an experiment is conducted using 12 of each brand. The
tires are run until they wear out. The results are : Brand A: x1 = 37, 900 kilometers, s1 = 5100 kilometers.
Brand B: x2 = 39, 800 kilometers, s2 = 5900 kilometers. Test the hypothesis that there is no difference in the 2
brands of tires. Assume the populations to be approximately normally distributed with equal variances.
13. A UCLA researcher claims that the average life span of mice can be extended by as much as 8 months
when the calories in their food are reduced by approximately 40% from the time they are weaned. The restricted
diets are enriched to normal levels by vitamins and protein. Suppose that a random sample of 10 mice are fed
a normal diet and live an average life span of 32.1 months with a standard deviation of 3.2 months, while a
random sample of 15 mice are fed the restricted diet and live an average life span of 37.6 months with a standard
deviation of 2.8 months. Test the hypothesis at the 0.05 level of significance that the average life span of mice on
this restricted diet is increased by 8 months against the alternative that the increase is less than 8 months. Assume the distributions of life spans for regular and restricted diets are approximately normal with equal variances.
14 The volume of containers of a particular lubricant is known to be normally distributed with a variance
of 0.03 liter. Test the hypothesis that 2 = 0.03 against the alternative that 2 6= 0.03 for the random sample of
10 containers :10.2, 9.7, 10.1, 10.3, 10.1, 9.8, 9.9, 10.4, 10.3, and 9.8 liters.
15. Past experience indicates that the time required for high school seniors to complete a standardized test
is a normal random variable with a standard deviation of 6 minutes. Test the hypothesis that = 6 against the
alternative that < 6 if a random sample of 20 high school seniors has a standard deviation s=4.51. Use a 0.05
level of significance.
16. Aflotoxins produced by mold on peanut crops in Virginia must be monitored. A sample of 64 batches
of peanuts reveals levels of 24.17 ppm, on average, with a variance of 4.25 ppm. Test the hypothesis that
2 = 4.2ppm with the alternative that 2 6= 4.2ppm.
17. Past data indicate that the amount of money contributed by the working residents of a large city to a
volunteer rescue squad is a normal random variable with a standard deviation of $1.40. It has been suggested
that the contributions to the rescue squad from just the employees of the sanitation department are much more
variable. If the contributions of a random sample of 12 employees from the sanitation department had a standard
deviation of $1.75, can we conclude at the 0.01 level of significance that the standard deviation of the contributions of all sanitation workers is greater than that of all workers living in this city?
18. A soft-drink dispensing machine is said to be out of control if the variance of the contents exceeds 1.15
deciliters. If a random sample of 25 drinks from this machine has a variance of 2.03 deciliters, does this indicate
at the 0.05 level of significance that the machine is out of control? Assume that the contents are approximately
normally distributed.