Problem Set No.

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Tests of Hypotheses (Part 1)

10. An electrical firm that manufactures light bulbs claims that the lifetime of its
light bulbs is at least 800 hours. Test the claim of the manufacturer if a
random sample of 50 bulbs has an average life of 788 hours and a standard
deviation of 40 hours.  Use a 0.05 level of significance and assume that the
distribution of light bulbs lifetime is normal.
11. Test the hypothesis that the average content of containers of a particular
lubricant is 10 liters if the contents of a random sample of 10 containers are
10.2, 9.7, 10.1, 10.3, 10.1, 9.8, 9.9, 10.4, 10.3, and 9.8 liters. Use a 0.01 level
of significance and assume that the distribution of contents is normal.
12. It is claimed that automobiles are driven on average more than 20,000
kilometers per year. To test this claim, 100 randomly selected automobile
owners are asked to keep a record of the kilometers they travel.  Would you
agree with the claim if the random sample showed an average of 23,500
kilometers and a standard deviation of 3900 kilometers?  Use a P-value in
your conclusion.
13. An engineer who is studying the tensile strength of a steel alloy intended for
use in golf club shafts knows that tensile strength is approximately normally
distributed. A random sample of 12 specimens has a mean tensile strength of
23,800 kN/with a standard deviation of 415 kN/.  Test the hypothesis that
the mean strength is more than 23,500 kN/.  Use a P-value in your conclusion.
14. In Problem 5 of Problem Set No. 1, test the claim of the manufacturer that the
average tensile strength of Brand B exceeds the average tensile strength of
Brand A by at least 12 kilograms.  Use a 0.05 level of significance.
15. In Problem 6 of Problem Set No. 1, test the hypothesis that there is no
difference in the average wear of the two brands of tires. Use a P-value.
16. Five samples of a ferrous-type substance were used to determine if there is a
difference between a laboratory chemical analysis and an X-ray fluorescence
analysis of the iron content. Each sample was split into two subsamples and
the two types of analysis were applied.  Following are the coded data showing
 the iron content analysis:

  

Assuming that the populations are normal, test at the 0.05 level of significance
whether the two methods of analysis give, on the average, the same result.

17. In Problem 8 of Problem Set No. 1, do we have reason to believe that more
than one-fifth of the homes in this have solar panel? Use a P-value in your
conclusion.
18. A study is conducted to compare the lengths of time required by men and
women to assemble a certain product. Past experience indicates that the
distribution of times for both men and women is approximately normal but the
variances of the times for men and women are unequal.  A random sample of
times for 11 men and 14 women produced the following data: