Engaging Activities

Direction: Solve the following problems. Show your solution and draw the graph (5 points each number)

1. NeverReady batteries have engineered a newer, longer lasting AAA battery. The company claims
this battery has an average life span of 17 hours with a standard deviation of 0.8 hours. Your
statistics class questions this claim. As a class, you randomly select 30 batteries and find that the
sample mean life span is 16.7 hours. If the process is working properly, what is the probability of
getting a random sample of 30 batteries in which the sample mean lifetime is 16.7 hours or less?

2. Suppose that the average resting heart rate for men over 19 years old is 70 beats per minute
(bpm) with a standard deviation of 8 bpm. What is the probability that a randomly selected male
19 years old or older will have a resting heart rate of more than 83? (Note: In this problem, you
need to look for the randomly selected individual from a population so make use of this formula
X́−μ
for finding the z-score: z= )
ϑ

3. The average age at first marriage is 25 for women and 27.8 for men in the US. If the standard
deviation for women is four years, what is the probability that a random selection of 32 women
have an average age at first marriage between 26 and 27?

4. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the average age of Americans
when Alzheimer’s disease is first diagnosed is 74.7 years. Assume that the population standard
deviation is 8.6 years. If a random sample of 35 patients who have been diagnosed with
Alzheimer’s disease is selected, what is the probability that the mean age of the sample is
greater than 71 years?
 5. In 2013, a Nielsen poll showed that among people age 13 and older who play video games, the
average time spent per week playing is 6.3 hours per week. Assume a standard deviation of 1.9
hours per week. If a random sample of 40 people who play video games were drawn in 2013,
what is the probability that the mean hours spent playing video games for the sample would be
greater than 7.1 hours?

Direction: Analyze the following problems and state the null and alternative hypothesis. Use test statistic
to decide whether to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis. (5 points each)

1. It is believed that candy machine makes chocolate bars that are on average 5g. A worker claims that
the machine after maintenance no longer makes 5g bars. Write H0 and H1 only.

2. The average IQ for the adult population is 100 with a standard deviation of 15. A researcher believes
this value has changed. The researcher decides to test the IQ of 75 random adults. The average IQ of the
sample is 105. Is there enough evidence to suggest the average IQ has changed?

3. The average IQ of the adult population is 100. A researcher believes the average IQ of adults is lower.
A random sample of 5 adults are tested and scored 69, 79, 89, 99, 109. (s.d. = 15.81). Is there enough
evidence to suggest the average IQ is lower?

4. A researcher reports that the average salary of Doctors is more than Php. 63, 000. A sample of 35
Doctors has a mean salary of Php. 65, 700. At x=0.01 (alpha level), test the claim that the Doctors earn
more than Php. 63, 000 a month. The standard deviation of the population is Php. 5, 250.

5. A battery manufacturer guarantees that the mean reserve capacity of a certain battery is greater than
1.5 hours. To test this claim, you randomly select 50 batteries and find the mean reserve capacity to be
1.55 hours. It had previously been determined that the population standard deviation is 0.32 hours. If α=
0.10 is there enough evidence to support the claim?