Stat 2-3 Practice

1)

If a medical researcher wishes to determine whether there is evidence that the annual mean
income of family physicians in the U.S. is less than $200,000, then which of the following
tests should be utilized?
A) A one-sided test
C) A two-sided test

B) Either a one-sided or two-sided test

D) Cannot be determined from the information

Answer: A
2)

The confidence interval and the two-sided hypothesis test are not equivalent in which one of
the following testing situations?
A) Test for one mean of a normal population when the variance is unknown.
B) Test for variance of a normal population.
C) Test for one mean of a normal population when the variance is known.
D) Test for a population proportion.
Answer: D

Solve the problem.

3)

An entomologist writes an article in a scientific journal which claims that fewer than 3 in ten
thousand male fireflies are unable to produce light due to a genetic mutation. Assuming that
a hypothesis test of the claim has been conducted and that the conclusion is to reject the null
hypothesis, state the conclusion in nontechnical terms.
Answer: There is sufficient sample evidence to support the claim that the proportion is less than 3 in ten thousand.

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

A dean of college of business in the Midwest claims that he can correctly identify whether a student is
finance major or a music industry management major by the way the student dresses. Suppose in
actuality that he can correctly identify finance major 84% of the time, while 16% of the time he
mistakenly identifies music industry management major as finance major. Presented with one student
and asked to identify the major of this student (who is either a finance or music industry management
major), the dean considers this to be a hypothesis test with the null hypothesis being that the student is
finance major and the alternative that the student is a music industry management major.
4)

Which of the following statements illustrates a Type I error?

A) Saying that the student is music industry management major when in fact the student is music industry
management major
B) Saying that the student is music industry management major when in fact the student is finance major
C) Saying that the student is finance major when in fact the student is finance major
D) Saying that the student is finance major when in fact the student is music industry management major
Answer: B

5)

Which of the following statements illustrates a Type II error?

A) Saying that the student is finance major when in fact the student is music industry management major
B) Saying that the student is music industry management major when in fact the student is music industry
management major
C) Saying that the student is finance major when in fact the student is finance major
D) Saying that the student is music industry management major when in fact the student is finance major
Answer: A

Find the value of the standard score, z, and determine whether the alternative hypothesis is supported or not supported at a 0.05
significance level.
6)

Ha: < 10, n = 18 , x = 7.5, = 2.4

Answer: z = -4.42; supported

Answer the question.

7)

A study of a brand of "in the shell" peanuts sold at sports events gives the following results:
Number of
Peanuts per bag Probability
25
0.003
30
0.02
35
0.09
40
0.15
45
0.35
50
0.217
55
0.07
A fan purchased a bag with 55 peanuts. Is this result significant at the 0.01 level?
Answer: No

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

The U.S. Postal Service advertises that at least 63.4% of all third class mail is read by the recipients. An
environmental group, concerned about waste and protecting the Northern Spotted Owl habitat, wants to
test this assertion. They take a sample of 220 households and find that only 58.7% read their third class
mail.
8) What are the null and alternative hypotheses for the environmental groups test?
A) H0 : P = 0.634 and H1 : P < 0.634
C) H0 : P > 0.634 and H1 : P 0.634

B) H0 : P = 0.634 and H1 : P > 0.634

D) H0 : P = 0.634 and H1 : P 0.634

Answer: A
9)

What would the environmental groups decision rule be?

^

A) Reject H0 if (P - P0 ) /
^

C) Reject H0 if (P - P0 ) /

P0 (1 - P0 ) / n < - z.

B) Reject H0 if (P - P0 ) /
^

P0 (1 - P0 ) / n > -z/2 .

D) Reject H0 if (P - P0 ) /

P0 (1 - P0 ) / n > -z.
P(1 - P) / n > -z/2 .

Answer: A
Conduct a full hypothesis test and determine if the given claim is supported or not supported at the 0.05 significance level.
Round all amounts and standard scores to two decimal places.
10) A

researcher wants to check the claim that convicted burglars spend an average of 16.7
months in jail. She takes a random sample of 35 such cases from court files and finds that the
mean time in jail is 14.7 months. Test whether the claim that the average jail time for
convicted burglars is different from
16.7 months is supported or not supported. Assume that the population standard deviation is
7 months.
Answer: not supported

Use the partial table below to find the P-value that corresponds to the standard z-score, and determine whether the alternative
hypothesis is supported or not supported at the 0.05 significance level.
Standard Score and Percentiles for a Normal Distribution
z
-3.5
-3.0
-2.5
-2.0
-1.5

0.02
0.13
0.62
2.28
6.68

-1.0
-0.5
0.0
0.5
1.0

11) z

15.87
30.85
50.00
69.15
84.13

1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5

93.32
97.72
99.38
99.87
99.98

= -1.5 for Ha: < 24

Answer: 0.0668; not supported

12) z=

0.0 for Ha: < 70

Answer: 0.5; not supported

Conduct a full hypothesis test and determine if the given claim is supported or not supported at the 0.05 significance level.
Round all amounts and standard scores to two decimal places.
13) A

manufacturer considers his production process to be out of control when defects exceed 3%.
In a random sample of 85 items, the defect rate is 5.5% but the manager claims that this is
only a sample fluctuation and production is not really out of control. Test whether the
manufacturer's claim that production is out of control is supported or not supported.
Answer: not supported

14) A

poll of 1068 adult Americans reveals that 48% of the voters surveyed prefer the Democratic
candidate for the presidency. Test whether the claim that less than half of all voters prefer the
Democrat is supported or not supported.
Answer: not supported

Assume that the results of a yes/no survey question given to a random sample of male and female subjects are summarized in a
2 2 two-way table. Use the given values of the test statistic and the significance level to test for independence between gender
and response.

a test statistic of 2 = 4.1 and a significance level = 0.05, decide whether gender and
response are related or not related.

15) Given

Answer: related

a test statistic of 2 = 2.9 and a significance level = 0.05, decide whether gender and
response are related or not related.

16) Given

Answer: not related

Determine the null and alternative hypotheses for the study that produced the data in the table.
17) A

researcher performed a study to determine whether an association exists between sex and
blood type. He obtained the following sample data.

157
143

143
127

Answer: H0 : Sex and blood type are independent.

Ha : There is some relationship between sex and blood type.
Calculate the indicated expected frequency to the nearest whole number.
18) The

two-way table summarizes data from a survey at a small liberal arts college:
New Hires
Tenure Adjunct Total
Track
Men
19
20
39
Women 18
15
33
Total 37
35
72
Assuming that status and gender are independent, what is the expected frequency of adjunct
men?
Answer: 19

Find the value of the 2 test statistic for a hypothesis test of independence. Round your answer to 3 decimal places.
19) Tests

for adverse reactions to a new drug yielded the results given in the table.

Headaches
No headaches

Drug
11
73

Placebo
7
91

Answer: 1.798
Using a significance level of 0.05, test the claim that the two variables are independent. State whether the variables are related or
not related.
20) Responses

to a survey question are broken down according to employment status and the
sample results are given below.
Yes No Undecided
Employed
30 15
6
Unemployed 20 25
10
Answer: not related