Let X be a random variable that represents the weight of coffee bags produced at the Waky Waky factory.

X follows a
Normal distribution, and its variance is known to be 0,04kg 2. The bags are labeled as 1kg bags, and Waky Waky wants
to know if production is functioning accordingly.

A sample of 25 bags was collected and the sample mean amounted to 1,05kg.

Calculate a confidence interval for the mean weight of Waky Waky coffee bags at the 95% confidence level.
Comment.

LB = 0.97 UB = 1.13
A machine produces screws. The diameter of these screws is normally distributed, and the standard deviation is unknown

A random sample of 25 screws was obtained, with the following results:

a) Calculate a 99% confidence interval for the average diameter of screws produced by this machine.

b) What is the effect on the interval’s range if:

1. You increase the confidence level, maintaining both n and ?

2. You increase the sample size, maintaining both and the confidence level ?
  Cases
Valid Missing Total
N Percent N Percent N Percent
Diameter (mm) 25 100,0% 0 0,0% 25 100,0%

  Statistic Std. Error

Diameter (mm) Mean 12,01 ,10000
99% Confidence Lower Bound 11,73  
Interval for Mean Upper Bound 12,29  
5% Trimmed Mean 12,01  
Median 12,04  
Variance ,25  
Std. Deviation ,50  
Minimum 10,80  
Maximum 13,19  
Range 2,38  
Interquartile Range ,59  
Skewness -,054 ,464
Kurtosis ,843 ,902
A radio station wants to estimate the average time a family spends listening to its frequency, weekly.
A sample of 81 families was obtained, for an average listening time 2,4 hours and standard deviation 0,7 hours.
The company that owns the station has decided to close if the average listening time is less than 2,5 hours.
What should be the company’s decision at the 10% significance level?
Random company is launching a new product in a city of 1.000.000 habitants. The company conducted a survey with
1.000 respondents, where 800 stated their interest in the new product.

a) How many habitants are expected to use the new product?

b) Estimate the true proportion of habitants that will use the new product based on a 95% confidence interval.
Comment.
c) How many respondents must be added to the sample if the company wants to cap the margin of error at 1%?
Random Bank, Inc. provides regular training modules for its employees. One of the modules consists of training in a
foreign language, namely Mandarin.
There are two methods Random Bank uses for teaching Mandarin: Conventional (A) and Modern (B).
At the end of the training module, employees were subjected to a test, having obtained the following results:

PASS FAIL
Method A 88 12
Method B 105 15

Based on these results, the person in charge of Employee Training claims the modern method to be more effective.
Comment, based on a CI with

A: Claim is incorrect based on these samples. = ]-0,069;0,079[

So Random, Inc. is a wine producer that sells bottled wine.

The amount of wine per bottle is a normally distributed variable with unknown mean and standard deviation.
A sample of 25 bottles was collected, and the corrected sample variance turned out to be 0,0625 cl 2.

Estimate the standard deviation of this population by means of a 90% confidence interval.
Two different Sports Centers decided to compare the average weight of its athletes. Two samples were obtained (10
athletes each) with mean weights 77 and 68 kg, and standard deviations 6 and 10 kg, respectively.
Build a confidence interval (90%) for the difference of mean weights between Sports Centers, based on these samples.
HINTS:
1. Assume weights at both centers to be normally distributed and equality of variances between populations.
2. Note that samples are small (n≤30) and sample standard deviations above are not corrected. Small sample size
requires Bessel’s correction (dividing the sum of squared differences by n-1) to be applied.
Ms. Earthy is an orange farmer. Each year, she must treat her trees with Bugs Much? (a chemical) if the percentage of trees
yielding more than 50kg is less than 70%.
Because she has many trees and cannot weigh the individual productions, she collected a sample of 40 trees, with the
following results:

Production > 50kg: 24 trees

What should be Ms. Earthy’s decision? (Consider a significance level of 1%)

Muy Rápido! is a Spanish company that delivers parcels throughout Europe.

The company claims that all parcels reach their destination, on average, in less than 48 hours, with a maximum variability
of 8 hours.

To assess this claim, a sample of 40 parcels (their respective delivery times, in hours) was collected, with the following
results:

What can you say about the company’s claims? Assume delivery times to be normally distributed.
Up your ads, inc. is an advertising agency. It developed a concept for a TV ad based on the assumption that
50% of the audience is older than 30 years.

The agency wants to know if there was a change in the audience ratings (the proportion of viewers) in that age
group.

To that effect, a sample of 400 viewers was collected, where 210 were older than 30.

a) What should be the agency’s conclusion?

b) What is the probability of not rejecting the initial assumption if the true proportion of viewers above 30 is
actually 42,5%?
Hurry up shrimp, Inc. is a household name (brand) of frozen shrimp. When the packaging line is functioning
properly, the packages weigh on average 250g. Periodically, the packaging supervisor collects samples of 20
packages and, if the average weight is not within 243 and 257g, she decides to readjust the machine. Assume
package weight is normally distributed with a variability of 15g.

a) What is the implied significance level?

b) Calculate the probability of Type II Error and Statistical power for H1 = 260.

c) Sketch the power function.