ITU MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING

HYPOTHESIS TESTS
ONE SAMPLE QUESTIONS

1. The Glen Valley Steel Company manufactures bars. If the production process is working
properly, it turns out steel bars with mean length of at least 2.8 feet with a standard
deviation of 0.20 foot (as determined from engineering specifications on the production
equipment involved). Longer steel bars can be used or altered, but shorter bars must be
scrapped. You select a sample of 25 bars and the mean length is 2.73 feet. Do you need to
adjust the production equipment? If you want to test the null hypothesis at the 0.05 level
of significance, what decision would you make using the critical value approach to
hypothesis testing?

2. You are the manager of a restaurant that delivers pizza to college dormitory rooms. You
have just changed your delivery process in an effort to reduce the mean time between the
order and completion of delivery from the cur- rent 25 minutes. From past experience, you
can assume that the population standard deviation is 6 minutes. A sample of 36 orders
using the new delivery process yields a sample mean of 22.4 minutes.
At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence that the mean delivery time has been
reduced below the previous population mean value of 25 minutes.

3. Over the past five years, the mean amount per sales invoice is $120. As an accountant for
the company, you need to inform the finance deparment if this amount changes. Is the
mean amount per sales invoice decreasing or increasing?
At the 0.05 significance level, is there evidence that mean amount per sales invoice differs
from $120?

X: invoices (in dollars)

108.98 152.22 111.45 110.59 127.46 107.26 93.32 91.97 111.56 75.71
128.58 135.11

4. The owners of Fit and Trim, a fitness and diet club, would like to advertise that their
clients lose at least 10 pounds, on average, during their first 3 months of membership at the
club. The sample mean is equal to 9.1 lb and sample standard deviation is equal to 0.4 lb
and the sample size is 20.
If the desired significance level is 0.05, what shold be concluded about this claim if the
previously shown results are observed ?

5. The AfterMBA Casual Furniture Store tells customers that a special order will take 6
weeks (42 days). During recent months the owner has received several complaints that the
special orders are taking longer than 42 days. A sample of 12 special orders delivered in
the last month showed that the mean waiting time was 51 days, with a standard deviation
of 8 days. At the 0.05 significance level, are customers waiting an average of more than 42
days?