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    PROBLEM 1

    A teacher claims that the mean score of students in his class is greater than 82 with a
    standard deviation of 20. If a sample of 81 students was selected with a mean score of
    90 then check if there is enough evidence to support this claim at a 0.05 significance
    level.

    Solution: As the sample size is 81 and population standard deviation is known, this is
    an example of a right-tailed one-sample z test.

    HType equation here .z = 3.60

    As 3.60 > 1.645 thus, the null hypothesis is rejected and it is concluded that there is
    enough evidence to support the teacher's claim.

    PROBLEM 2

    A herd of 1,500 steer was fed a special high‐protein grain for a month. A random
    sample of 29 were weighed and had gained an average of 6.7 pounds. If the standard
    deviation of weight gain for the entire herd is 7.1, test the hypothesis that the average
    weight gain per steer for the month was more than 5 pounds.

    null hypothesis: H 0: μ = 5

    alternative hypothesis: H a: μ > 5


    Tabled value for z ≤ 1.289 is 0.8997

    1 – 0.8997 = 0.1003

    So, the conditional probability that a sample from the herd gains at least 6.7 pounds per
    steer is p = 0.1003. Should the null hypothesis of a weight gain of less than 5 pounds
    for the population be rejected? That depends on how conservative you want to be. If
    you had decided beforehand on a significance level of p < 0.05, the null hypothesis
    could not be rejected.

    PROBLEM 3

    In national use, a vocabulary test is known to have a mean score of 68 and a standard
    deviation of 13. A class of 19 students takes the test and has a mean score of 65.

    Is the class typical of others who have taken the test? Assume a significance level
    of p < 0.05.

    null hypothesis: H 0: μ = 68

    alternative hypothesis: H  a : μ ≠ 68

    This is a two‐tailed test; so the 0.05 must be split such that 0.025 is in the upper tail and
    another 0.025 in the lower. The z‐value that corresponds to –0.025 is –1.96, which is
    the lower critical z‐value. The upper value corresponds to 1 – 0.025, or 0.975, which
    gives a z‐value of 1.96. The null hypothesis of no difference will be rejected if the
    computed z statistic falls outside the range of –1.96 to 1.96.

    Next, compute the z statistic:


    Because –1.006 is between –1.96 and 1.96, the null hypothesis of population mean is 68 and
    cannot be rejected.
    PROBLEM 4

    Twenty five high school students complete a preparation program for taking the SAT
    test.  Here are the SAT scores from the 25 students who completed the SAT prep
    program:

    434 694 457 534 720 400 484 478 610 641 425 636 454
    514 563 370 499 640 501 625 612 471 598 509 531

    The mean of these scores is 536.00.  We know that the population average for SAT
    scores is 500 with a standard deviation of 100.

    The question is, are these students’ SAT scores (M = 536) significantly greater than a
    population mean of 500 with a population standard deviation of 100? Note that the the
    maker of the SAT prep program claims that it will increase (and not decrease) your SAT
    score.  So, you would be justified in conducting a one-directional test. (alpha = .05).

    The goal of your analysis is to test for a significant deviation between your sample mean and
    the population mean. In the case, the population standard deviation is a known parameter.

    So, we will test the mean of these data against the value 500 with a one-sample Z test
    of the mean:

    Compute test statistic. You will find that the sample mean is equal to 536.00. Now,
    compute your Z statistic:

    Since the company promoting the SAT prep program specifically claims that the program
    will improve SAT scores, we will conduct a directional (i.e., one-tailed) test with alpha = .05.
    When you check a table of Z values, you will find that the critical value of Z is 1.65. Since
    your obtained value of Z (+1.80) was greater than 1.65, you would conclude that the prep
    program resulted in a significant  improvement in SAT scores.

    PROBLEM 5
    A school claimed that the students’ study that is more intelligent than the average
    school. On calculating the IQ scores of 50 students, the average turns out to be 11. The
    mean of the population IQ is 100 and the standard deviation is 15. State whether the
    claim of principal is right or not at a 5% significance level.

     Here, our level of significance given in this question (∝ =0.05), if not given
    then we take ∝=0.05.
     Now, we look up to the z-table. For the value of ∝=0.05, the z-score for the
    right-tailed test is 1.645.
     Now, we perform the Z-test on the problem:

     Where:
    o X = 110
    o Mean (mu) = 100
    o Standard deviation (sigma) = 15
    o Significance level (alpha) = 0.05
    o n = 50

    Here 4.71 >1.645, so we reject the null hypothesis. If z-test statistics is less
    than z-score, then we will not reject the null hypothesis.

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