Case Study-1

Mineral Water Company

A mineral water company has launched a new 10 litre bottle in

the urban market. After some time, the firm receives some
complaints that the bottles do not contain exactly 10 litres. For
verifying this complaint, the companys investigating team has
taken a random sample of 120 bottles from different places.
The sample mean is computed as 9.5 and the sample
standard deviation is computed as 1.1. Construct a 95%
confidence interval to estimate the mean for the population.
 Case Study-2
Personnel Department Problem

The owner of a large equipment rental company wants to The

personnel department of an organization wants to apply cost-
cutting measures for improving efficiency. As the first step, the
personnel department wants to curtail telephone expenses
incurred by employees. For this, personnel department has
taken a random sample of 10 employees and gathered the
following data about telephone expenses (in thousand rupees)
in the previous year: 10, 12, 24, 23, 11, 14, 15, 34, 16, 23.
Construct a 95% confidence interval to estimate the average
telephone expenses of the employees in the population.
 Case Study-3
Quality Control Department

The quality control department of an electric bulb manufacturing

company wants to estimate the average life of the electric
bulbs. For this, a quality control inspector has taken a random
sample of 20 bulbs. Life of these bulbs in hours is given below.
Assuming that the life of the bulbs is normally distributed,
construct a 90% confidence interval for estimating the
population mean.

Life of 20 randomly bulbs in hours: 99, 101, 98, 95, 89, 97, 96,
101, 98, 102, 98, 99, 101, 99, 96, 97, 95, 103, 101, 96.
 Case Study-4
Copper Plates Problem
A company receives copper plates from vendor to use as an
important part of machinery. The company has specified that
the diameter of the copper must be 20 millimeters. Production
department of the company has observed that a few of the
supplied plates do not meet the specifications. For verifying this,
the company research team has taken a random sample of 20
plates. Assuming that the diameter of these plates are normally
distributed, construct a 90% confidence interval for estimating
the population mean diameter. Diameter of 20 randomly
sampled plates is given as

Diameter of the plates supplied by vendor: 19.92, 19.90, 20.00,

20.12, 20.11, 20.00, 19.98, 19.99, 20.01, 20.03, 20.06, 20.08,
19.94, 19.96, 19.97, 20.03, 20.05, 20.07, 20.00, 19.99.