BQT1614, QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS TRI1, 2020/2021

Tutorial 5
Topic 6: Hypothesis Testing 1 (One sample test)

1. A sample of 8 independent observations provides the following:

3.6 3.9 3.8 4.5 4.9 4.2 4.4 3.8

Can you conclude at 5% level of significance that the mean is below 5?

2. A house cleaning service claims that they can clean a four-bedroom house in less than 2 hours. A
sample of n = 16 houses is taken, and the sample mean is found to be 1.97 hours and the sample
standard deviation is found to be 0.1 hours. Conduct a hypothesis testing by using 0.05 level of
significant to verify the claim.

3. 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. At the 0.05 level of significance, is
there evidence that the mean life is different from 375 hours?

4. A stationary store wants to estimate the mean retail value of greeting cards that has in its inventory. A
random sample of 100 greeting cards indicates a mean value of RM2.55 and a standard deviation of
RM0.44. Is there evidence that the population mean retail value of the greetings cards is different from
RM2.50? Use 0.05 level of significance.

5. A company that makes and markets a device that is aimed at helping people quit smoking claims that at
least 70 percent of the people who have used the product have quit smoking. To test this, a random
sample of n = 100 product users was selected. Of these, 65 people were found to have quit smoking.
Test whether the claim is true by using a 0.05 significance level.

6. The sports page in a local newspaper reported that 70% of males over the age of 18 in Malaysia would
skip an important event such as a birthday party or a wedding dinner to watch their favourite
professional sports team play. A random sample of 676 adult males over the age of 18 in Melaka reveals
that 507 would be willing to skip an important event to watch their favourite team play. Can you
conclude at 1% significance level that the proportion of adult males who would skip an important event
to watch their favourite team play is greater in Melaka than in the nation as a whole?

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7. A standard policy for academic counselling helps 72% of all repeating students to pass their final
examination in an average of 43 counselling sessions. The counsellor considers supporting a new
counselling policy if it is effective in reducing the number of counselling sessions while retaining the
passing rate. A study on 50 repeating students who were counselled under the new policy reveals that 32
of them passed their final examination in an average of 40 counselling sessions with a standard
deviation of 9 sessions. Can we conclude that

i) the passing rate under the new counselling policy is lower than 72% at 1% significance level?
ii) the new counselling policy is effective in reducing the number of counselling sessions at 5%
significance level?