Statistics And Probabilistic-Assignment Due on Dec 9, 2016

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1. An engineer is doing a feasibility study to build a diesel power plant at Ulumbu,

Indonesia. The engineer will do a survey of the ability to pay of the community there. The
allowable margin of error is set at 2.5% with 90% level of confidence. The engineer
estimates that the proportion of the community members who is able to pay the price is
30%. How many sample the engineer need to take?

2. A company that produce a concrete mix sells three brands: A, B and C. The company
reported that the selling of the products are 60%, 28% and 12%, respectively. An
engineers performs a survey of 129 sold items and has obtained 73 of brand A, 38 of
brand B and the rest for brand C. With 0.05 significant level, has the survey support he
report?

3. A below contingency table depicts the picture of components that produced from a 3
shifts in a manufacturing line. In your opinion, are there any significance differences
among the failed components on those production lines?

Shift Good products Fail products Total

I 80 5 85
II 60 15 75
III 50 20 70
Total 180 40

4. The manager of a cell phone center distributor assumes that customers react sensitively to
a price changing. To verify that assumption, the manager told to four outlets that
separately located to sell with the new prices. The table below shows the selling result
after six weeks;

Outlet 1 Outlet 2 Outlet 3 Outlet 4

(Price A) (Price B)
2 4
4 3
6 5
3 6
(Price C) (Price D)
9 7
8 3
3 4
4 6

What can you summarize from the above data?

Note: otherwise given, use level of significance of 0.05

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