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L D College of Engineering

Computer Engineering Department


Subject: MFCS (3710214) ME-Sem-1
Assignment-3: Confidence Interval and Hypothesis Testing

1 A simple random sample of five people provided the following data on ages: 21, 25, 20, 18,
and 21. Develop a 95%confidence interval for the mean age of the population being
sampled. State any assumptions you must make in your method.
2 Based on a random sample of 100 cows of a certain breed, a confidence interval for
estimating the true mean yield of milk is given by 41.6 < µ < 44.0. If the yield of milk of a cow
may be assumed to be normally distributed with a standard deviation of 5, what was the
level of confidence used?
3 In developing mentorship schedules for students, an academic institute desires to estimate
the mean time a staff member spends with each students. How large a sample should be
taken if the precision of the estimate is to be ± 2 minutes at a 95% level of confidence? How
large a sample is needed for a 99% level of confidence? Use a planning value for the
population standard deviation of 8 minutes. Hint: Use equation z = X¯−µ / (s/√n) and
Consider (X¯−µ) as margin of error or precision to estimate.
4 When 16 cigarettes of a particular brand were tested in a laboratory for the amount of tar
content, it was found that their mean content was 18.3 milligrams with a standard deviation
of 1.8 milligrams. Set a 90 percent confidence interval for the mean tar content in cigarettes
of this grand. (Assume that the amount of tar in a cigarette is normally distributed.)
5 The manufacturer of an over-the-counter pain reliever claims that its product brings pain
relief to headache suffers in less than 3.5 minutes, on average. In order to be able to make
this claim in its television advertisements, the manufacturer was required by a particular
television network to present statistical evidence in support of the claim. The manufacturer
reported that for a random sample of 50 headache sufferers, the mean time to relief was 3.3
minutes and the standard deviation was 66 seconds.
(a) Does this data support the manufacturer’s claim? Test using a 5% significance level.
(b) In general, do large p-values or small p-values support the manufacturer’s claim? Explain
6 A sporting goods manufacturer who produces both white and yellow tennis balls claims that
more than 75% of all tennis balls sold are yellow. A marketing study of the purchases of
white and yellow tennis balls at a number of stores showed that of 470 cans sold, 410 were
yellow and 60 were white.
(a) Is there sufficient evidence to support the manufacturer’s claim at a 1% significance
level?
(b) Calculate the probability of a Type II error if, in fact, 80% of the tennis balls sold are
yellow.
7 In 1960, census results indicated that the age at which American men first married had a
mean of 23.3 years. It is widely suspected that young people today are waiting longer to get
married. We plan to test our hypothesis by selecting a random sample of 20 men who
married for the first time last year. The men in our sample married at an average age of 24.2
years, with standard deviation of 5.1 years. Find the errors in a student’s attempt to test an
appropriate hypothesis. How many mistakes can you find?

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