Solve each problem. Write your hypothesis, test hypothesis, and draw your conclusion.
You can use excel or solve manually.
1. A fourth-grade class is studying the environment. One of the assignments is to grow
bean plants in different soils. Tommy chose to grow his bean plants in soil found outside his classroom mixed with dryer lint. Tara chose to grow her bean plants in potting soil bought at the local nursery. Nick chose to grow his bean plants in soil from his mother’s garden. No chemicals were used on the plants, only water. They were grown inside the classroom next to a large window. Each child grew five plants. At the end of the growing period, each plant was measured, producing the data in inches as shown below: Tommy’s Tara’s Nick’s Plant Plants Plants 24 25 23 21 31 27 23 23 22 30 20 30 23 28 20 Does it appear that the three soils in which the bean plants were grown produce the same mean height? Test at a 5 percent level of confidence.
2. The mean and population standard deviation of the blood sugar level of randomly selected 50 patients in a hospital are 130 mg/dl and 4.6 mg/dl, respectively. Find the lower and upper confidence limits with 90% confidence interval for the mean of all patients in the hospital.
3. The following were scores in a mathematics test selected by a teacher from all the test scores of Grade 11 students. 74 78 86 88 69 83 70 83 87 62 92 66 65 75 74 90 76 57 72 83 Assume that above scores were randomly selected by the teacher from a normal population and the variance is unknown. Construct a 95% confidence interval to estimate the population mean score.
4. The owner of mobile phone store at Greenhills Shopping Center was not happy when he learned that the average number of mobile phones sold daily was only 8 mobile phones. He hired of new seller and told him to tally the daily sales for 18 days. The following are the number of mobile phones sold for the past 20 days. 9 9 9 8 9 9 11 12 12 17 16 10 12 8 11 17 18 15 14 14 Do the collected data present sufficient evidence to indicate that the average number of mobile phones sold daily has increased? Use 0.05 level of significance. Assume normality in the population. 5. The average IQ for the adult population is 100 with σ=15. According to research, this has changed. To test the claim, average IQ of 75 random adults was gathered which is 105. Is there enough evidence to suggest the average IQ has changed? What is the p-value of the data?
6. A researcher claims that the starting salary for male physician assistants is more than that for female physician assistants. A random sample of 12 male and 9 female physician assistants yielded the information given. Is there enough sample evidence to support the researcher’s claim? Test at 1% level of significance. MALE FEMALE Sample Size 12 9 Sample Mean $ 71,000 $ 69,500 Sample Standard Deviation $1,000 $1,500 7. An Instructor wanted to measure the basic math skills of her students before and after her college algebra course. A skills test administered at the beginning of the semester, and the scores were recorded. At the end of the semester, the instructor administered the same test and recorded the scores. Use a 95% confidence interval for this set of data to test if there is an improvement in their scores. Use the data below.
Student # Before After diff Mean Dev Squared Mean D
1 61 68 2 58 62 3 79 83 4 69 65 5 62 62 6 71 74 7 25 31 8 48 52 9 53 51 8. The UP Cebu clinic conducted an experiment to determine the degree of relief provided by three headache remedies. Each remedy was tried on 50 students and the following data recorded. At 𝛼 = 0.05, are the three remedies equally effective? Advil Biogesic Dolfenal No relief 11 13 9 Some relief 32 28 27 Total relief 7 9 14
