UNIT IV

TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS FOR LARGE SAMPLES

TEST 1(TEST OF SIGNIFICANCE DIFRENCE BETWEEN THE SAMPLE
PROPORTION AND POPULATION PROPORTION)
1. Experience has shown that 20% of a manufactured product is of top quality. In
One days Production 400 articles, only 50 are top quality.Show that either the
production of the day chosen was not a representative sample or the hypothesis
of 20 % was wrong. Based on the Particulars day production, find also the 95%
confidence limits for the percentage of top quality product.
2. 40 people were attacked by disease and only 36 survived. Will You reject the
hypothesis that the survival rate, if attacked by disease, is 85% in favour of the
hypothesis that is more at 5% level of significance.
3. A manufacturer of light bulbs claims that an average 2% of the bulbs
manufactured by his Firm are defective. A random sample of 400 Bulbs
contained 13 defective bulbs. On the basis of this sample, can you support
manufacturers claim at 5% LOS.
4. Work sampling Studies are conducted to find utilisation of a machine. Out of
200 observations made, only 40 observations indicated the machine to be idle.
Find the number of observations to be made in order to satisfy 95% confidence
to state the utilization of the machine with expected accuracy of 5%
5. In a sample of 1000 people in Mumbai ,540 are rice eaters and the rest are
wheat eaters .Can we assume that both rice and wheat are equally popular in
this state at 1% level of significance.(H0 is accepted,z=2.529 , both rice and
wheat are equally popular)
6. The fatality rate of typhoid patients is believed to be 17.26% In a certain year
640 patients suffering from typhoid were treated in a metropolitan hospital and
only 63 patients died Can you consider the hospital efficient. ( z=4.96, The
hospital is efficient , H0 is rejected)
7. A salesman in a departmental store claims that at most 60% of the shoppers
entering the store leave without making a purchase. A random sample of 50
shoppers showed that 35 of them left without making a purchase. Are these
samples result consistent with the claim of salesman? Use level of significance of
0.05. (is consistent with the sales man , Ho accepted z=1.443)
8. A die is thrown 9000 times and throw of 3 or 4 is observed 3240 times .Show
that the die cannot be regarded as an unbiased one and find the limits between
which the probability of a throw of 3 or 4 lies( H0 reject ,z=5.37, conclude
that the die is biased)
TEST 2 (TEST OF SIGNIFICANCE DIFRENCE BETWEEN TWO SAMPLE
PROPORTIONS )
1. In a large city A, 20 percent of a random sample of 900 school boys had a
slight physical defect. In another large city B, 18.5 percent of a random sample
of 1600 school boys had the same defect. Is the difference between the
proportions significant?
2. A machine puts out 16 imperfect articles in a sample of 500.After the machine
is overhauled, it puts out 3 imperfect articles in a batch of 100. Has the machine
improved?
3. Before an increase in excise duty on tea, 800 people out of a sample of 1000
were consumers of tea. After the increase in duty,800 people were consumers of
tea in a sample of 1200 persons. Find whether there is significant decrease in the
consumption of tea after the increase in duty.

4. In a random sample of 100 men taken from the village A,60 were found to be
consuming alcohol.In another sample of 200 men taken from village B ,100 were
found to be consuming alchol.Do the two village differ significantly in respect of
proportion of men who consume alcohol.
5. In two large population, there are 30 and 25 percent respectively of blue eyed
people .Is this difference likely to be hidden in samples of 1200 and 900
respectively from the two population?(h0 rejected , Z=2.55, difference in
population proportion is unlikely to be hidden in sampling).
6. In a random sample of 1000 people from city A, 400 are found to be
consumers of wheat. In a sample of 800 from city B, 400 are found to be
consumers of wheat. Does this data give a significant difference between the two
cities as far as the proportion of wheat consumers is concerned?(z=4.243, ho
reject, there is significant difference between the two cities as well as
wheat consumer is concerned)
7. A cigarette manufacturing firm claims that its brand A cigarette out sells its
brand B by 8%.If it is found that 42 out of a sample of 200 smokers prefer brand
A and 18 out of another random sample of 100 smokers prefer brand B, test
whether the 8% difference is a valid claim (use 5% level of significance).
(Z=1.02, H0 Accept, diff of 8% in the sale of two brands of cigrastte is
valid claim)
8. 15.5% of random sample of 1600 undergraduates were smokers, whereas 20%
of a random sample of 900 postgraduates were smokers in a state. Can we
conclude that less number of undergraduates are smokers than the post
graduates.
TEST 3 (TEST OF SIGNIFICANCE DIFFRERENCE BETWEEN SAMPLE MEAN
AND POPULATION MEAN)
1. A sample of 100 students is taken from a large population. The mean height of
the students in this sample is 160cm.can it be reasonably regarded that, in the
population, the mean height is 165cm.and the S.D Is 10cm.also find the 95%
Ficidual limits for the mean.
2. The mean braking strength of the cables supplied by a manufacturer is 1800
with an SD of 100.By a new technique in the manufacturing process, it is claimed
that the breaking strength of the cable has increased. To test this claim a sample
of 50 cables is tested and is found that the mean breaking strength is 1850.Can
we support the claim at 1% level of significance.
3. A sample of 900 members has a mean of 3.4cm and SD 2.61cm.Is the sample
from a large population of mean 3.25cm and SD 2.61Cm.if the population is
normal and the mean is unknown, Find the 95% confidence limits for the mean.
4. The mean life time of a sample of 100 light tubes produced by a company is
found to be 1580hrs with standard deviation of 90 hrs.Test the hypothesis is that
the mean life time of the tubes produced by the company is 1600 hrs.
TEST 4 (TEST OF SIGNIFICANCE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEAN OF TWO
SAMPLES)
1. In a random sample size 500, the mean is found to be 20.In another
independent sample size 400; the mean is 15.Could the samples have been
drawn from the sample population with SD 4.
2. A simple sample of height of 6400 English men has a mean of 170cm and a SD
of 6.4cm, while a simple sample of heights of 1600 Americans has a mean of

172cm.Do the data indicate that Americans are, on the average taller than the
Englishmen?
3. In a certain factory there are two independent process manufacturing the
same product. The average weight in a sample of 250 items produced from one
process is found to be 120 ozs,with a standard deviation of 12ozs,while the
corresponding figures in a sample of 400 from the other process are 124 and
14.Is the difference between the two samples mean significant? Also find the
99% confidence limits for the difference in the average weight of the items
produced by two process respectively.