TEST II.

(40 PTS)

Answer each problem accordingly. Show your solution.

1. Based on field experiments, a new variety green gram is expected to given an yield of
12.0quintals per hectare. The variety was tested on 10 randomly selected farmers fields.
The yield ( quintals/hectare) were recorded as
14.3,12.6,13.7,10.9,13.7,12.0,11.4,12.0,12.6,13.1.
Do the results conform the expectation? Use ∝ = 0.05 (10 pts)

2. A company has three manufacturing plants, and company officials want to determine
whether there is a difference in the average age of workers at the three locations. The
following data are the ages of five randomly selected workers at each plant. Perform
one-way anova to determine whether there is a significant difference in the mean ages
of the workers at the three plants. Use ∝ = 0.01 and note that the sample sizes are
equal. (10 pts)

Plant 1 Plant 2 Plant 3

29 32 25
27 33 24
30 31 24
27 34 25
28 30 26
3. Determine the value of the coefficient of correlation, r, for the following data: (10 pts)

X Y

12 17

21 15

28 22

8 19

20 24
4. A corporation owns several companies. The strategic planner for the corporation
believes dollars spent on advertising can be a predictor of total sales dollars.to some
extent. As an aid in long-term planning, she gathers the following sales and advertising
information from several of the companies of 2011($ millions). (10 pts)
Advertising (X) Sales (Y)

12.5 148

3.7 55

21.6 338

60 994

37.6 541

6.1 89

16.8 126

41.2 379