Statistic Exercise 2
Statistic Exercise 2
Exercise
1. A psycohologist claims that the mean age at which children start walking is 12.5 months. Carol
wanted to check if this claim is true. She took a random sample of 18 children and found that
the mean age at which these children started walking was 12.9 months with a standard deviation
of 0.80 month. Using 1% significance level, can you conclude that the mean age at which all
children start walking is different from 12.5 months?
Answer: t 2.121,fail to reject
2. A peony plant with red petals was crossed with another plant having streaky petals. A geneticist
states that 75% of the offspring resulting from this cross will have red flowers. To test this
claim, 100 seeds from this cross were collected and germinated and 58 had red petals.
a) Construct a 95% confidence interval for the offspring resulting the cross will have red
flowers.
b) What hypothesis should you use to test the geneticist`s claim at 5% significance level?
3. The following data were obtained from a survey of the number of years people smoked and the
percentage of lung damage they sustained.
Years, X 20 14 31 36 9 41 19
Damage, Y 20 14 54 63 17 71 23
4. The following table gives information on ages and cholesterol levels for a random sample of 10
men.
Age 58 69 43 39 64 52 47 31 74 36
Cholestrol 189 235 193 177 154 191 213 165 198 181
level
5. Consider the following partially completed two-way ANOVA table. Suppose there are four
levels of Factor A and three levels of Factor B. The number of replications per cell is 5.
Complete the table and test to determine if there is a significant difference in Factor A, Factor
B, or interaction. Use the 0.05 significance level. (Hint: Complete the ANOVA table first)
Is there a significant difference among the Factor A, Factor B and interaction at 0.05
significance level?
Treatments A 3 24.27 C
Total 229.2 19
8. Each of six similar stores was randomly assigned a machine and location combination. The
data below is number of paper sold over four days.
Position/Machine J-1000 D-320 UV-57
Inside 33, 40, 30, 31 29, 28, 33, 33 47, 39, 39, 45
Outside 43, 36, 41, 40 48, 45, 40, 44 37, 32, 36, 35
Use 0.05 significance level to test for position, machine and interaction effects on
9. The duration of Alzheimer’s disease from the onset of symptoms until death ranges from 3 to
20 years; the average is 8 years with a standard deviation of 4 years. The administrator of a large
medical records of 30 deceased Alzheimer`s patients from the medical center`s database and
records the average duration. Find the probability the mean duration is less than 7 years.
Answer: 0.0853
10. In a study of annual family expenditures for general health care, two populations were surveyed with the
following results:
Population 1: n1 = 40, x1 = $346 Population 2: n2 = 35, x2 = $300
If the variances of the populations are
1 = 2800 and 2 = 3250, what is the probability that the means of the two populations are
differ?
Answer: P(Z 3.6)
11. A Taxi company purchased two brands of tires, brand A and brand B. It is known that the mean
distance travelled before the tires wear out is 36300km for brand A with standard deviation
200km while the mean distance travelled before the tires wear out is 36100km for brand B with
standard deviation of 300km. A random sample of 36 tires of brand A and brand B are taken.
What is probability that the difference between the mean distance travelled before the tires of
brand A and brand B wear out is at most 300km?
Answer: 0.9671
12. The manager of a restaurant has determined that the proportion of customers that drink
tea is 14%. What is the probability that in the next 100 customers at least 10% will be tea drink
ers?
Answer: 0.875
13. A factory worker (Worker 1) has a productivity that is normally distributed, producing an
average of 75 units per day, with a standard deviation of 20. Another worker (Worker 2) also
has a normally distributed productivity, with a mean of 65 units per day and a standard
deviation of 21. What is the probability of mean worker 1 will produce greater than worker 2?
Answer: 0.78