Chapter 1

TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS

1. A sample of heights of 6400 Englishmen has a mean of 67.85 inches and a S.D of 2.56 inches,
while a sample of heights of 1600 Australians has a mean of 68.55 inches and a S.D of 2.52
inches. Do the data indicate that Australians are on the average taller than Englishmen.

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2. A sample analysis of examination results of 1000 students were made and was found that 260
failed, 110 first class, 420 second class and rest obtained third class. Do these data support the
general examination result in the ratio 2 : 1 : 4 : 3.

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3. The independent samples from normal populations with equal variance gave the following:

Sample Size Mean S.D.

1 16 23.4 2.5
2 12 24.9 2.8

Is the difference between the means significant ?

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4. Two samples of sizes 9 and 8 give the sum of the square of deviations from their respective
means equal to 160 and 91 respectively. Can they be regarded as drawn from the same normal
population ?

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5. The manufacture of a medicine claimed that it was 90% effective in relieving an allergy for
a period of 8 hours. In a sample of 200 people who had the allergy, the medicine provided
relief for 160 people. Determine whether the manufacturer’s claim is legitimate at 1% level of
significance.

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6. A test of the breaking strengths of 6 ropes manufactured by a company showed a mean breaking
strength of 3515 kg and a standard deviations of 60 kg, whereas the manufacturer claimed a
mean breaking strength of 3630 kg. Can we support the manufacturer’s claim at a level of
significance of 0.05.

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7. Find the maximum likelihood estimate for the parameter λ of poission distribution given by

e−λ .λx
P [X = x] = f (x; λ) = , x = 0, 1, 2, ...
x!

. on the basis of a sample of size ’n’. Also find its variance.

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8. In the past the standard deviation of weights of certain 1135 gm. packages filled by a machine
was 7.1 grams. A random sample of 20 packages showed a standard deviation of 9.1 grams. Is
the apparent increase in variability significant at 0.05 level of significance?

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9. In a large city A 20% of a random sample of 900 school boys had a slight physical defect. In
another city B 18.5% of a random sample of 1600 school boys had the same defect. Is the
difference between the proportions significant?

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10. Machinist is making engine parts with arc diameters of 0.7 inch. A random sample of 10 parts
shows a mean diameters of 0.742 inch with a standard deviation of 0.040 inch. Compute the
statistic to test the work is meeting the specification.

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11. The nicotine content in milligram of 2 samples of tobacco were found to be as follows:

Sample A 24 27 26 21 25
Sample B 27 30 28 31 22 36

Can it be said that these samples were from normal population with the same mean.

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12. Five coins are tossed 320 times. The number of heads observed is given below:

Number of Heads 0 1 2 3 4 5
Frequency 15 45 85 95 60 20

Examine whether the coin is unbiased. Use 5% level of significance.

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13. Mechanical engineers testing a new arc welding technique, classified welds both with respect
to appearance and an X - ray inspection.

Appearance
Bad Normal Good
X - ray Bad 20 7 3
Normal 13 51 16
Good 7 12 21

Test for independence using 0.05 level of significance.

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14. Given a sample mean of 83, a sample standard deviation of 12.5 and a sample size of 22, test
the hypothesis that the value of the population mean is 70 against the alternative that it is
more than 70. Use that 0.025 significance level.

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15. Twenty people were attacked by a disease and only 18 survived. Will you reject the hypothesis
that the survival rate, if attacked by this disease, is 85% in favour of the hypothesis that it is
more, at 5% level.

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16. To determine whether there is a relationship between an employee’s performance in the com-
pany’s training program and his or her ultimate success in the job, the company takes a sample
of 400 cases and obtains the result in the following table.

Performance in training program

Below average Average Above average
Poor 23 60 29
Success in job Average 28 79 6
Very good 9 49 63

Use 0.01 level of significance to test the null hypothesis that the performance in training program
and the success in the job are independent.

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17. A random sample of 200 tins of coconut oil gave an average weight of 4.95 kgs. With a standard
deviation of 0.21 kg. Do we accept that the net weight is 5 kgs per tin at 5% level? Do we
accept that the Net weight is 5 kgs per tin at 1% level?

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18. The following is the distribution of the hourly numbers of trucks arriving at a company’s
warehouse.

Trucks arriving per hour: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Frequency: 52 151 130 102 45 12 5 1 2

find the mean of the distribution and using its mean rounded to one decimal as the parameter
λ, fit a Poisson distribution. Test for goodness of fit at the level of significance α = 0.05.

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19. A sample of 900 members has a mean 3.4 and standard deviation 261 cms. Is the sample from
a large population of mean 3.25 cms and standard deviation 2.61 cms?

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20. Two random samples gave the following results:

Sample Size Sample mean Sum of squares of deviation

from the mean
1 10 15 90
2 12 14 108

Test whether the samples come from the same normal population at 5% level of significance
(given F0.05 (9, 11) = 2.90, F0.05 (11, 9) = 3.10, t0.05 (20) = 2.086, t0.05 (22) = 2.07 approxi-
mately).

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21. The mean height of 50 male students who showed above average participation in college athletics
was 68.2 inches with a standard deviation of 2.5 inches; while 50 male students who showed
no interest in such participation had a mean height of 67.5 inches with a standard deviation of
2.8 inches

(1) Test the hypothesis that male students who participate in college athletics are taller than
other male students.

(2) By how much should the sample size of each of the two groups be increase in order that
the observed difference of 0.7 inches in the mean height be significant at the 5% level of
significance.

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22. A group of 10 rats fed on diet A and another group of 8 rats fed on diet B. recorded the
following increase in weight.

Diet A 5 6 8 1 12 4 3 9 6 10
Diet B 2 3 6 8 10 1 2 8

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Chapter 2

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

1. Analyse the variance in the Latin square of yields (in kgs) of paddy where P, Q, R, S denote
the different method of cultivation.

S122 P121 R123 Q122

Q124 R123 P122 S125
P120 Q119 S120 R121
R122 S123 Q121 P122

Examine whether the different methods of cultivation have given significantly different yields.

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2. The table shows the yield of paddy in arbitrary units obtained form four different varieties
planted in five blocks where each block is divided into four plots. Test at 5% level whether the
yields vary significantly with
(i) soil differences
(ii) differences in type of paddy.
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Type of Paddy
Blocks
I II III IV
A 12 15 10 14
B 15 19 12 11
C 14 18 15 12
D 11 16 12 16
E 16 17 11 14

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3. A farmer wishes to test the effects of four different fertilizers A, B, C, D on the yield of wheat.
In order to eliminate sources of error due to variability in soil fertility he uses the fertilizers in
a Latin square arrangements as indicated below where the number indicate yields in Kilograms
per unit area. Perform an analysis of variance to determine if there is a significance difference
between the fertilizers at 0.01 level of significance.

A 18 C 21 D 25 B 11
D 22 B 12 A 15 C 19
B 15 A 20 C 23 D 24
C 22 D 21 B 10 A 17

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4. Table below shows the seeds of 4 different types of corns planted in 3 blocks. Test at 0.05 level
of significance whether the yields in kilograms per unit area vary significantly with different
types of corns.
Types of Corns
I II III IV
Blocks A 4.5 6.4 7.2 6.7
B 8.8 7.8 9.6 7.0
C 5.9 6.8 5.7 5.2
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