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This document is a practice exam for a statistics course. It contains 5 questions testing concepts like hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and comparing means. Students are asked to show work, state assumptions, and report conclusions at various significance levels. The questions cover topics like comparing automobile usage to a claim, qualifying a machine based on defective parts, and determining if battery life differs between two machine types.

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Stat319 131 06 E3

This document is a practice exam for a statistics course. It contains 5 questions testing concepts like hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and comparing means. Students are asked to show work, state assumptions, and report conclusions at various significance levels. The questions cover topics like comparing automobile usage to a claim, qualifying a machine based on defective parts, and determining if battery life differs between two machine types.

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KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS


Term 131

STAT 319 Statistics for Engineers and Scientists

Third Major Exam Monday December 9, 2013

Please check/circle your instructor’s name

□ Abbasi □ Anabosi □ Jabbar □ Al-Sabah □ Saleh □ Alsawi

Name: ID #: Section#

☺Important Notes:

 Show all your work including formulas, intermediate steps and final answer.
 In hypothesis testing problems, write the null and the alternative hypotheses, test
statistic, decision rule, critical values, and your conclusion, unless otherwise is
specified.

Question No Full Marks Marks Obtained


1 4

2 5

3 5

4 6

5 10

Total 30
1) An agricultural economist is interested in determining the average diameter of peaches
produced by a particular tree. A random sample of n = 25 peaches is taken and the sample
mean is calculated. Suppose that the mean diameter of peaches on this tree is known from
previous years’ production to be 60 mm with a standard deviation of 10 mm.
a) What is the probability that the sample mean exceeds 65 millimeters? (3 pts.)

b) What assumptions did you make, if any? (1 pt.)

2) It is claimed that an automobile in KSA is driven on the average more than 20,000
kilometers per year. To test this claim, a random sample of 100 automobile owners are
asked to keep a record of the kilometers they travel. At the 5% significance level would
you agree with this claim if the random sample showed an average of 21,000 kilometers
and a standard deviation of 3900 kilometers? (5 pts.)
3) A grinding machine will be qualified for a particular task if it can be shown to produce
less than 8% defective parts. In a random sample of 300 parts, 16 were defective. On the
basis of these data, can the machine be qualified? Use the p-value approach and discuss
all possible decisions. (5 pts.)

4) The production manager at a battery factory wants to determine whether there is any
difference in the mean life expectancy of batteries manufactured on two different types of
machines. A random sample of 21 batteries from machine 1 indicates a mean of 250
hours and a standard deviation of 75 hours, and a similar sample of 21 from machine 2
indicates a mean of 242 hours and a standard deviation of 90 hours. Using the 0.05 level
of significance, and assuming that the population variances are equal, is there any
evidence of a difference in the mean life of batteries produced by the two types of
machines? (6 pts.)
5) In 9 soil specimens tested for trace elements, the average amount of copper was found to
be 22 milligrams, with a standard deviation of 4 milligrams.
a) Find a 90% confidence interval for the true mean copper content in the soils from
which these specimens were taken. (3 pts.)

b) What assumptions did you make, if any? (1 pt.)

c) Use the confidence interval to test the hypothesis that the mean is 26 mg at the 10%
significance level. (3 pts.)

d) Find the p-value for testing the hypothesis in c). (3 pts.)

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