A) Problems:

1- An automatic bottling machine fills oil into 2-liter (2,000 cm 3 ) bottles. A consumer advocate
wants to test the null hypothesis that the average amount filled by the machine into a bottle is at
least 2,000 cm 3 . A random sample of 40 bottles coming out of the machine was selected and
the exact contents of the selected bottles are recorded. The sample mean was 1,999.6 cm 3 .
The population standard deviation is known from past experience to be 1.30 (cm3) . Test the null
hypothesis at an α of 5%. 

2- Sixteen oil tins are taken at random from an automatic filling machine. The mean weight of the
tins is 14.2 kg, with a standard deviation of 0.40 kg. Can we conclude that the filling machine is
wasting oil by filling more than the intended weight of 14 kg, at a significance level of 5%?  

3- In an automated process, a machine fills cans of coffee. The variance of the filling process is
known to be 30. In order to keep the process in control, from time to time regular checks of the
variance of the filling process are made. This is done by randomly sampling filled cans,
measuring their amounts and computing the sample variance. A random sample of 101 cans is
selected for the purpose. What is the probability that the sample variance is between 21.28 and
38.72? 

4- There are three varieties of wheat A,B and C are sown in four plots each and the following
yields is obtained. Set up one way of analysis of variance and check whether there is significant
difference between the varieties of wheat at 5% level of significance. Tabulated value at 5% level
and at 2,12 d.f. is 3.88.

Plot Varieties
A B C
1 8 7 12
2 10 5 9
3 7 10 13
4 14 9 12
5 11 9 14

5 - A researcher is interested in comparing the effectiveness of 3 different methods of teaching

reading, and also in whether the effectiveness might vary as a function of the reading ability of the
students. Fifteen students with high reading ability and fifteen students with low reading ability were
divided into three equal-sized group and each group was taught by one of these methods. Listed on
the next slide are the reading performance scores for the various groups at school year-end.

Teaching Method

Ability A B C
High X 37.6 32.4 33.2
s2 2.8 9.3 11.7
Low X 20 18.4 17.6
s2 10 4.3 4.3
 Do the appropriate analysis to answer the questions posed by the researcher
(all αs = .05)
 The London School Board is currently using Method B and, prior to this
experiment, had been thinking of changing to Method A because they believed
that A would be better. At α = .01, determine whether this belief is supported
by these data.