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The document appears to be a practice test for a statistics course. It contains 4 problems involving hypothesis testing using z-tests and t-tests. The problems require stating the null and alternative hypotheses, identifying test statistics and critical values, making decisions to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis based on comparing test statistics to critical values, and concluding in plain language. Some examples of hypotheses tested include whether the percentage of unmarried couples matches an expected value, whether the proportion of defective items exceeds a threshold, and whether mean waiting times or vocabulary scores differ between two groups.

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4th Periodical Test

The document appears to be a practice test for a statistics course. It contains 4 problems involving hypothesis testing using z-tests and t-tests. The problems require stating the null and alternative hypotheses, identifying test statistics and critical values, making decisions to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis based on comparing test statistics to critical values, and concluding in plain language. Some examples of hypotheses tested include whether the percentage of unmarried couples matches an expected value, whether the proportion of defective items exceeds a threshold, and whether mean waiting times or vocabulary scores differ between two groups.

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4th Periodical Test

Statistics II
Name: _______________________________ Section: ___________ Date__________ Score: __________
Solve the following problems.

As part of your answer:


a. Please provide, in words, the null and alternative hypotheses.
b. Write the number of samples, degrees of freedom, significance level and critical value.
c. Provide the decision rule for rejecting the null hypothesis, including the critical value(s) for the appropriate statistic.
d. Using an alpha level of .05, test the null hypothesis. As part of this test, please compare the actual value for the
appropriate statistic against the critical value(s) for the appropriate statistic.
e. State your conclusion regarding the results from this test in language that a friend of yours with no knowledge of statistics
could understand.

z-test
1. According to official census figures, 8% of couples living together are not married. A researcher took a random
sample of 400 couples and found that 9.5% of them are not married. Test at the 0.05 significance level if the
current percentage of unmarried couples is different from 8%.

2. A sample of 800 items produced on a new machine showed that 48 of them are defective. The factory will get
rid the machine if the data indicates that the proportion of defective items is significantly more than 5%. At a
significance level of 10% does the factory get rid of the machine or not?

3. The population standard deviation for waiting times to be seated at a restaurant is know to be 10 minutes. An
expensive restaurant claims that the average waiting time for dinner is approximately 1 hour, but we suspect that
this claim is inflated to make the restaurant appear more exclusive and successful. A random sample of 30
customers yielded a sample average waiting time of 50 minutes. Is there evidence to say that the restaurant’s
claim is too high?

4. In a survey of 1273 adults, 52% said it is not morally wrong to change the genetic makeup of human cells.
What test would be indicated to address the following statement: “The majority of adults do not think it is
morally wrong to change the genetic makeup of human cells”? Conduct this test.
t-test
1. A psychologist claims that the mean age at which children start walking is 12.5 months. The following data
give the age at which 18 randomly selected children started walking.
15, 11, 13, 14, 15, 12, 15, 10, 16, 17, 14, 16, 13, 15, 15, 14, 11, 13
Test at the 1% level of significance if the mean age at which children start walking is different from 12.5
months.

2. An investigator thinks that people under the age of forty have vocabularies that are different than those of
people over sixty years of age. The investigator administers a vocabulary test to a group of 31 younger subjects
and to a group of 31 older subjects. Higher scores reflect better performance. The mean score for younger
subjects was 14.0 and the standard deviation of younger subject's scores was 5.0. The mean score for older
subjects was 20.0 and the standard deviation of older subject's scores was 6.0. Does this experiment provide
evidence for the investigator's theory?

3. An investigator predicts that dog owners in the country spend more time walking their dogs than do dog
owners in the city. The investigator gets a sample of 21 country owners and 23 city owners. The mean number of
hours per week that city owners spend walking their dogs is 10.0. The standard deviation of hours spent walking
the dog by city owners is 3.0. The mean number of hours country owners spent walking theirs dogs per week was
15.0. The standard deviation of the number of hours spent walking the dog by owners in the country was 4.0. Do
dog owners in the country spend more time walking their dogs than do dog owners in the city?

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