Assignment-02

SMALL SAMPLES
1. A random sample of 10 boys had the following I.Q.s :

70, 120, 110, 101, 88, 83, 95, 98, 107, 100

Do these data support the assumption of a population mean I.Q. of 100 (at 5%
level of significance)?

2. A fertilizer mixing machine is set to give 12 kg. of nitrate for every quintal
bag of fertilizer. 10 hundred kg. bags are examined. The percentage of nitrate
is given below: 11, 14, 13, 12, 13, 12, 13, 14, 11, and 12.

Is there is a reason to believe that the machine is defective?

The value of t for 9 degree of freedom is 2.262.

3. A machine is to turn out engine parts with axel diameters of 0.700 inch. The
hypothesis H0 : =0.700 is to be tested against the alternative H1: = 0.700 at
5% level of significance. A random sample of 10 parts shows = 0.7120
inch and s=0.040 inch. What does this indicate?

4. A normal population has mean 20 and S.D. 2. A sample of 6 items from the
population has a mean 18.2. Can the sample be reasonably regarded as a
random sample using the 5% level of significance?

5. Nine patients to whom a certain drink was administrated registered the

following increments in blood pressure :

7, 3, -1, 4, -3, 5, 6, -4, 1.

Examine whether the data indicate that the drink was responsible for these
increments.

6. The following table gives the lengths of 12 samples Egyptian cotton taken
from a large consignment .

48, 46, 49, 46, 52, 45, 43, 47, 47, 46, 47, 50.

Test if the mean length of the consignment be taken as 46.

7. A group of boys and girls were given an inteligence test. The mean scores ,
S.D. s and numbers in each group are as follows:

Boys Girls

Mean 124 121

S.D. 12 10

n 18 14

Is the mean score of boys significantly different from that of the girls?

8. The following table relates to the starting-delay-reaction times at a

signalised intersection before and after changing the signal position.

Before change After change

No. of observations 7 10

Mean delay time 3.214 sec. 2.750 sec.

S.D. of delay time 0.456 sec. 0.327 sec.

Test the hypothesis that changing the signal position will have no effect on the
starting reaction-delay-time at 1% level of significance.

9. To check two weighing machines, 5 samples were weighted on each

machine :

Machine A 10.063 9.036 3.056 5.074 2.006

Machine B 10.063 9.033 3.060 5.070 2.000

Do the result suggest that there is a significant difference between the two
machines?

10. In a mixed class, the marks of 6 girls and 8 boys in a subject are :

Girls: 72 53 42 40 37 31

Boys: 83 81 73 59 45 41 30 26

Do these data support the theory that boys are better than girls in the subject?
11. Show how you would use student's t-test to decide whether the two sets of
observations

17, 27, 18, 25, 27, 29, 27, 23, 17

and 16, 16, 20, 16, 20, 17, 15, 21 indicate samples drawn from
the same universe.

12. An I.Q. test was administered to 5 persons before and after they were
trained. The results are given below.

Candidates 1 2 3 4 5

I.Q. before training 110 120 123 132 125

I.Q. after training 120 118 225 136 121

Test whether there is any change in I.Q. after the training programme, given
that t0.1(4) = 4.6.

13. 11 school boys were given a test in geometry. They were given a month's
tuition and a second test was held at the end of it. Do the marks give evidence
that the students have benefited by the extra coaching?

Boys 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

1st 23 20 19 21 18 20 18 17 23 16 19
test
2nd 24 19 22 18 20 22 20 20 23 20 17
test

14. Two random samples from two normal populations are given below:

Sample I : 16 26 27 23 24 22

Sample II: 33 42 35 32 28 31

Do the estimates of populations variances differ significantly?

Degrees of freedom: (5, 5) (5, 6) (6, 5)

5% value of F: 5.05 4.39 4.95

15.In a sample of 10 observations , the sum of the squares of the deviations of
the sample values from the sample mean was 120 and in another sample of 12
observations, it was314. Test whether the difference is significant at 5% level.

16. Two independent samples of 8 and 7 items respectively had the following
values of the variables(weights in kgs.)

Sample I : 9 11 13 11 15 9 12 14

Sample II: 10 12 10 14 9 8 10

Do the estimates of the population variance differ significantly?

17. Two random samples drawn from two normal populations are

Sample I : 20 16 26 27 23 22 18 24 25 19 20

Sample II: 17 23 32 25 22 24 28 18 31 33 27

Obtain estimates of the variances of the populations and test whether the two
populations have the same variances.

18. Find the value of chi-square for the following data:

Class A B C D E

Observed frequency 8 29 44 15 4

theoretical frequency 7 24 38 24 7.

19. The last digit of 200 numbers from a certain table are noted down at
random and their frequencies are given below:

Digit 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Frequency 15 22 20 18 25 23 24 16 17 20

Test the hypothesis that every digit has an equal chance of appearing as the
last digit of a number.
20. The following table gives the number of aircraft accidents that occurred
during the various days of the week.

Days Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

No. of accidents 14 16 8 12 11 9 14

Use the test to assess the correctness of the hypothesis that the
accidents were uniformly distributed over the week.

21. The number of demands for a particular spare part in a factory was found
to vary from day to day. In a sample study , the following information was
obtained.

Days : Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

No. of spares demanded: 1124 1125 1110 1120 1126 1115

Test the hypothesis that the number of parts demanded does not spend on the
day of the week.(The table value for for 5 d.f. at 5% level of significance is
11.07)

22. A set of 5 coins is tossed 3200 times and the number of heads appearing
each time is noted. The results are given below.

No. of heads 0 1 2 3 4 5

frequency 80 570 1100 900 500 50

Test the hypothesis that the coins are unbiased.

23. In an experiment on the immunization of babies from Polio, the following

results were obtained:

Affected Not affected

Inoculated 12 26

Not inoculated 16 6

Examine the effect of the vaccine in controlling the Polio.

24. Road tests gave the following data regarding tire failures:

Number of Failures

Front Rear Total

Left 115 65 180
Right 125 95 220
Total 240 160 400

Test at 5% level of significance whether the left right tire wear is independent
of front rear tire wear.

25. On the basis of the following data, Can you infer that hair colour and eye
colour are related with each other? The figures in the table give the number of
persons and (. , ) = 3.841.

Hair colour Black Grey

Eye colour
Black 13 12
Grey 16 14

26. Weights in kg. of 10 students are given below:

38, 40, 45, 53, 47, 43, 55, 48, 52, 49

Can we say that the variance of the distribution of weights of all students from
which the above sample of 10 students was drawn is equal to 20 square kg?

Degrees of freedom . .

9 16.92 21.67

10 18.31 23.21 .