REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

COLLEGE OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION
Graduate Program
Ayala Boulevard, Manila

Practice Exercises

1. An advertising agency conducted a random survey of adults asking their primary source of news and
educational level.
Primary Source of Not Highschool Highschool but not College Graduate Total
News Graduate College Graduate
newspaper 49 205 188 442
television 203 665 223 1091
internet 41 401 245 687
total 293 1271 656 2220

The advertising company wants to test whether there is a relationship between the 3 educational levels and
the 3 primary news sources. Find the null hypothesis and degrees of freedom for the test. Show that the
assumptions for the test are met for the category: "Newspapers/Not High School Graduate".
Test the claim that among college graduates, their primary news source is equally divided among newspapers,
television, and the internet. Use the critical value method with significance level 0.05.
2. A school nurse wants to determine whether age is a factor in whether children choose a healthy snack after
school. She conducts a survey of 300 middle school students, with the results below. Test
at α=.05α=.05 the claim that the proportion who choose a healthy snack differs by grade level. Use the
critical value method.
Grade Level 6th grade 7th Grade 8th Grade
Healthy Snack 31 43 51
Unhealthy Snack 69 57 49

3. A researcher wishes to see if the five ways (drinking caffeinated beverages, taking a nap, going for a walk,
eating a sugary snack, other) people use to combat midday drowsiness are equally distributed among
office workers. A sample of 60 office workers is selected, and the following data are obtained. At .10
significance level can it be concluded that there is no preference?
method beverage nap walk snack other
number 21 16 10 8 5

CHERRYPYN B. BARBACENA, Ed. D

Course Facilitator
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 REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
COLLEGE OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION
Graduate Program
Ayala Boulevard, Manila

4. Students at Oxford were asked to indicate their agreement with the following statement: "I find mathematics
challenging but I am able to make a good grade." Is there a difference in the distributions of responses
between males and females? Students responded as follows:
agree No opinion disagree total
males 75 10 85 170
females 121 8 51 180
Give the null hypothesis, test statistic, critical value at an appropriate alpha level, conclusion, and
interpretation
5. Students were asked to respond to the following statement: "Participating in study groups is an effective
way to study for some courses." Is there a significant difference in the responses of freshmen and
sophomores? Show appropriate hypothesis testing responses.
Agree No Opinion Disagree
Freshmen 34 21 35
Sophomore 54 12 29

CHERRYPYN B. BARBACENA, Ed. D

Course Facilitator
RESOURCE MATERIALS ARE FOR THIS COURSE USED ONLY & NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION