The quality control manager at a light bulb factory needs to estimate the mean life of a large

shipment of light bulbs. The standard deviation is 100 hours. A random sample of 64 light bulbs indicated a
sample mean life of 350 hours.
a. Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate for the population mean life of light bulbs in this shipment.
b. Do you think that the manufacturer has the right to state that the light bulbs have a mean life of 400 hours?
Explain.
HYPOTHESIS TESTING

You are the manager of a fast-food restaurant. You want to determine whether the waiting time
to place an order has changed in the past month from its previous population mean value of
4.5 minutes. State the null and alternative hypotheses.
You are the manager of a fast-food restaurant. The business problem is to determine whether the population
mean waiting time to place an order has changed in the past month from its previous population mean value of
4.5 minutes. From past experience, you can assume that the population is normally distributed, with a
population standard deviation of 1.2 minutes. You select a sample of 25 orders during a one-hour period. The
sample mean is 5.1 minutes. Determine whether there is evidence at the 0.05 level of significance that the
population mean waiting time to place an order has changed in the past month from its previous population
mean value of 4.5 minutes.
The quality-control manager at a light bulb factory needs to determine whether the mean life of a large
shipment of light bulbs is equal to 375 hours. The population standard deviation is 100 hours. A random
sample of 64 light bulbs indicates a sample mean life of 350 hours.
a. At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence that the mean life is different from 375 hours?
b. Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate of the population mean life of the light bulbs.
a. Compare the results of (a) and (b). What conclusions do you reach?