Statistics II *

Homework II * Week 2-Week 3

Two-sample Tests

1. The owner of Taşkın Hamburger wishes to compare the sales per day at two
locations. The mean number sold for 10 randomly selected days at the Akhisar site
was 83.55, and the standard deviation was 10.50. For a sample of 12 days at the
Karahisar location, the mean number sold was 78.80 and the standard deviation
was 14.25. At the 0.05 significance level, is there a difference in the mean number
of hamburgers sold at the two locations? (equal variances assumption)

2. The makers of a new chemical fertilizer claim that the yields will average 0.40
tons more per acre if this fertilizer is used than if the leading brand is used. The
agricultural testing service is tested this claim. A random sample of 52 acre-sized
plots was selected and the new fertilizer was applied. A second sample of 40 acre-
sized plots was selected and the leading fertilizer was used. The following sample
data (in tons per acre) were observed:

Current Leading Brand New Product

n1=40 n2=52
Arithmetic Mean=4.3 tons/acre Arithmetic Mean=5.2 tons/acre
s1=0.8 tons s2=0.7 tons

If α=0.05 what conclusion should be reached with respect to the claim made by the
new fertilizer’s company. Discuss.

3. The statistics lecturer of EMBA programme in ITU is interested in determining

whether the experience year of students changes with respect to gender. She looks
at the data coming from randomly chosen 46 students. She prepared following
table.

a) Write the null and alternative

Male=M, n hypothesis.
Mean Std.Deviation
b) Which test is suitable for this analysis ? Why?
Female=F
F a significance
c) Based on 25 level of 0.05,5.88 3.059 rule and test
determine the decision
M 21 5.48 3.816
whether male and female experience years are different than each other.

SPSS Output for Question :

Male=M, N Mean Std.Deviation Str.Error

Female=F Mean
Exp. F 25 5.88 3.059 0.612
M 21 5.48 3.816 0.833
 Levene’s Test for t-test for Equality of Means
Equality of
Variances
F Sig. t df Sig.(2- Mean Std.Error
tailed) difference Difference
Exp Equal variances 0.453 0.504 0.398 44 0.692 0.404 1.014
assumed

4. Money worries in the United States start at an early age. In a survey, 660 children
(330 boys and 330 girls) ages 6 to 14 were asked the question, "Do you worry
about having enough money? ". Of the boys surveyed , 201 ( 60.9 % ) said yes ,
and 178 ( 53.9 % ) of the girls surveyed said yes (Extracted from D. Haralson and
K. Simmons, "Snapshots," USA Today, May 2004, 1B). At the 0.05 level of
significance, is the proportion of boys who worry about having enough money
greater than the proportion of girls?

Repeat for Week I and Week II:

One sample Tests

Two-tail tests

5. You are the manager of a fast-food restaurant. The business problem is to

determine whether the population mean waiting time to place an order has
changed in the past month from its previous population mean value of 4.5
minutes. From past experience, you can assume that the population is normally
distributed, with a population standard deviation of 1.2 minutes. You select a
sample of 25 orders during a one-hour period. The sample mean is 5.1 minutes.
Determine whether there is evidence at the 0.05 level of significance that the
population mean waiting time to place an order has changed in the past month
from its previous population mean value of 4.5 minutes.

6. A bottled water distributor wants to determine whether the mean amount of water
contained in 1-gallon bottles purchased from a nationally known water bottling
company is actually 1 gallon. You know from the water bottling company
specifications that the standard deviation of the amount of water per bottle is 0.02
gallon. You select a random sample of 50 bottles, and the mean amount of water
per 1-gallon bottle is 0.995 gallon.

a) Is there evidence that the mean amount is different from 1.0 gallon? (Use α =
0.01.)
b) Construct a 99% confidence interval estimate of the population
mean amount of paint.
c) Compare the results of (a) and (c). What conclusions do you reach?
7. The quality-control manager at a lightbulb 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.

a. At the 0.05 level of significance is there evidence that the mean life is different
from 375 hours?
b. Construct a 95 % confidence interval estimate of the population mean life of
the lightbulbs.
c. Compare the results of (a) and (c). What conclusions do you reach?

One-tail tests
Population Mean

8. A company that manufactures chocolate bars is particularly concerned that the

mean weight of the chocolate bar not exceed 6.03 ounces. Past experience allows
you to assume that the standard deviation is 0.02. A sample of 50 chocolate bars is
selected and the sample mean is 6.034 ounces. Using the 0.01 level of
significance, is there evidence that the population mean weight of the chocolate
bars is greater than 6.03 ounces?

Population proportion

9. A fast-food chain has just developed a new process to make that orders at the
drive- through are filled correctly. The previous process filled orders correctly
88% of the time. A sample of 100 orders using the new process is selected and 92
were filled correctly. At the 0.01 level of significance, can you conclude that the
new process has increased the proportion of orders filled correctly?