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Using an appropriate statistical test solve the following problems.

Please state the reasons for choosing the statiscal test. S1. The advisor of manufacturing Club at a large collage believes that the group consists of 10% first year students, 20% second year students, 40% third year students, and 30% final year students. The membership of this year consisted of 14 first year students, 19 second year students, 51 third year student, anfd 16 final students. At = 0.10, test the advisor hypothesis. A sociologist wishes to see whether the number of years of college a person has completed is related to his or her place of residence. A sample of 88 people is selected and classified as shown. At At = 0.05, can the sociologist conclude that a persons location is dependent on the numer of years of college? Location No College Four-year Advance Total degree degree Urban 15 12 8 35 Suburban 8 15 9 32 Rural 6 8 7 21 Total 29 35 24 88 A researcher wisheds to determine whether there is a relationship between gender of an individual and the time spent studying at the library. A sample of 68 people is selected, and the following data is obtained. At = 0.10 , can the researcher conclude that time spent studying at the library is related to gender. Gender Low Moderate High Total Male 10 9 8 27 Female 13 16 12 41 Total 23 25 20 68 A random sample of 300 adults that were selected and they were asked if they favour giving more freedom to schoolteachers to punish students for lack of discipline. They two-way cross tabulation of the responses is presented in the following table. Does the sample provide enough information to conclude that gender and opinions of adults are dependent at 1 % significant level? In Favour (F) Against (A) No Opinion (N) Male 10 9 8 Female 13 16 12 Total 23 25 20 An education faculty has recently opened a post graduate library at the Faculty and it is available to students from 7 am to 7 am Monday to Friday. The dean wanted to investigate if the percentage of students using the library is the same for each of the five days (Monday through Friday) of the week. By using a counter at the entrance of the library, she randomly selected one week and counted the number of students on each of the five days during this week. Is the proportion of students who use the library each of the five days of the week the same? Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Number 253 197 204 279 267 of users

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