Solution: Quiz#2 Finals

1. Past experience indicates that the time for college sophomores

to complete a standardized placement test is normal random
variable. A sample of 25 students gave a mean time to complete
the test of 27.4 min with standard deviation 4 min.
a. Using = 5 %, test Ho: = 25 min against H1: 25 min.
b. Find the p-value for this test.
c. What assumptions must be made regarding the data for the
test in part (a) to be valid?

Since its a two-tailed condition: = 10%; /2 = 5%

For p=0.95; z(table) = 1.645
Thus,

5
=1.645; n=1082.41 1083
100
n

Use t-test
Problem require two-tailed test: /2 = 0.025; df = 25 1 =24
t(tabulated) = 2.064
With

x =25 ; t(computed) = |3| > t(table); reject Ho

With t=3; p = 0.001672 (/2) ; thus p = 0.003344

3. A random-number generator is being tested to determine if each

of 10 digits is being produced with equal probability. A sample of
1000 digits gave the following results.
Digit
Frequ
ency

One can assume that the sample size is not representative of the
sophomore population or there is the presence of outliers which
were not considered.
2. The breaking strength of wire for a construction site is known to
have = 100 lb. How large a sample must be chosen so that the
probability the sample mean and the true mean differ by at most 5
lb is 0.90?

0
9
9

1
1
0
6

2
9
8

3
9
7

4
1
0
4

5
1
0
6

6
9
2

7
9
8

8
9
9

9
1
0
1

Is the random-number generator behaving properly?(Accept

Ho)
Use chi-square.

P [| x |5 lb ] 0.90

5 x 5

0.90
s
s
s
n n n

df = 10 -1 = 9; with = 5%; 2 (Table) = 16.919

2(computed) = 1.72
2 (table) > 2 (computed): generator is behaving properly
4. See p. 126 statistis for science and engineers by John J. Kinney