PROBLEM SET Final Exams 3Q1819

SET C
1. According to study, the estimate of the best temperature to work with cement to guarantee a good quality concrete
is normally distributed with a mean of 23° and standard deviation of 5°. Calculate the probability that a good
concrete is in between 21° and 27°.

2. An engineer wishes to study the soil of a certain lot before the construction. From 39 samples the standard
deviation of the pH level of the soil is 0.629. It is a must to find the difference of the soil acidity on each part of
the lot, find the two-sided 95% confidence interval for the standard deviation of pH level.

3. An engineer observed a pipe discharging from power plant towards the concrete canal, the mean water
temperature flowing from the discharge should be no more than 100°F. Past research indicates that the standard
deviation of temperature is 2°F. The engineer measured the water temperature randomly in nine days, the average
temperature is found to be 98°F. Is there evidence that the water temperature is acceptable at α =0.05 ?

4. An article claimed that nearly one-half of all pre-casted concrete created by BMCI is substandard. An engineer
tested 484 samples from BMCI, the data indicates that 117 passed the standard quality check.
(a) Are the data from Engineering Horizons consistent with the claim reported by Fortune? Use α =0.05 in
reaching your conclusions.
(b) Calculate the 95% confidence interval of the true proportion of pre-cast concrete that passed the standard
quality check.

5. A researcher wishes to test the strength of a specific mixture design of a concrete mortar in relation to its age, the
time x in days and the strength (MPa) y for 5 specimens are listed below. Find the correlation coefficient r and the
equation of regression line. Determine also significance in the correlation at alpha 0.05.

x (days) 5 3 4 10 15
y (MPa) 25 20 21 35 38

6. A company operates on four different types of pre-cast concrete that has three batch each week. From the
production records, the following data on the number of
TYPE
breakdowns are collected. Test the hypothesis that the breakdowns are
Batc A B C D
independent of the batch. (Use alpha = 0.05)
h
1 41 20 12 16
2 31 11 9 14
3 15 17 16 10

7. A study shows the number of traffic occurring in a three consecutives exits in an expressway. An engineer wishes
to design a traffic flow to lessen the traffic occurring in the expressway, in order to design the flow it is needed to
determine whether there is significant difference between the three. Use (alpha =0.05). Present Sheffe test to
determine the difference.

EXIT A B C
7 10 1
14 1 12
32 1 1
19 0 9
10 11 1
11 1 11