When 16 seventeen-year-old women were randomly selected and tested with an aerobics test, the mean of their scores was found to be 37.9 with a sample standard deviation of 7.3. Construct both a 90% confidence interval and a 99% confidence interval for the mean. Write out the meaning of your findings.
The school board is interested in the proportion of middle school students who do not live with both biological parents. How many students will need to be surveyed so that the board can be 90% confident in the results, with no more than 0.05 error?
Verbal SAT scores of a random sample of 250 high school students has a mean of 470.3 and a standard deviation of 138. Construct a 95% and a 99% confidence interval and explain the reason for the difference in these intervals.
The President claims that a majority of voters are in favor of his foreign aid program. A random sample of 1000 voters showed 545 who favored the foreign aid program. Is there sufficient evidence to support the President's claim?
Organic chemists often purify organic compounds by fractional crystallization. A laboratory technician desired to prepare and purify several samples, each of 4.85 grams aniline. He claims that his procedure theoretically will produce 3.43 grams of acetanilide. In a sample of 16, the mean was found to be 3.50 with a standard deviation of 0.55. Test the claim made by the chemist.
Suppose that you take a random sample of 36 athletes who try out for the Mexican Olympic men's basketball team. Your sample averages 75 inches tall with a standard deviation of 3 inches. Find a 95% confidence interval and interpret your findings.
Southern Bell wants to determine the proportion of cars with cellular phones. How many cars must be sampled in order to be 90% confident that the sample proportion is in error by no more than 0.02?
The final exam in Math 107 usually produces a mean score of 78 (percent). Twenty students in an above-average class take this final exam and produce a mean score of 82 and a standard deviation of 6.2 (with no outliers). The professor claims that the above-average class scored significantly higher than the previously accepted average of 78. Evaluate this situation with an appropriate hypothesis testing procedure.
In a local survey, 813 of the 1084 respondents indicated support for a ban on household aerosols. It is believed that more than 70% of the population supports the ban on household aerosols. Provide appropriate hypothesis testing to respond to the above claim.
You suspect that the coin used to begin the local football game is not a fair coin; i.e., that there are too many instances of "heads". (A fair coin would give approximately half "heads" and half "tails") You take the suspected coin and toss it 100 times. You get 65 heads. Is this result significantly higher than should be produced by a fair coin? As you make your determination:
In a random sample of 18 high school juniors, the mean of scores on the verbal portion of the SAT scores was found to be 510 with a standard deviation for the sample of 140 points.
Describe the role of ethics in the use of statistics in experimentation. Give examples in your explanation.
To determine the percentage of Democrats in a certain state, a random sample of 2,200 was obtained. Of these 1,328 were found to be Democrats. Create a 90% confidence interval and a 99% confidence interval for ''p'', the true proportion of Democrats. Interpret your results.
A school system wants to determine the proportion of students who come from broken homes, those households that have gone through divorce. How many students would need to be randomly selected in order to be 98% confident that the sample proportion is in error of no more than 0.05% In reality, how many should be in your sample to assure an adequate number given that around 90% of the sample will produce responses?
The president of a large company (5,000 employees) is certain that a significant majority of his employees is in favor of the new health plan that will go into effect in January. The labor union (3,000 members) is not so certain that a significant majority of labor union members are in favor of this health plan. A stratified random sample of 300 union members and 200 non-union members (from the remaining 2,000 employees) indicated that 153 union members were in favor of the new health plan and 122 non-union members were in favor of the new health plan.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury claims that the mean weight of quarters minted is 5.670 grams. A random sample of 50 quarters is gathered at a local bank. The mean weight is found to be 5.638 with a standard deviation of 0.072 grams. # Is the random sample significantly different from the weight claimed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury?
A Ford engineer claims that a new fuel injection design increases the mean mileage on the Taurus above its current 30 miles per gallon level. Twenty of the new designs were checked and the mean recorded as 32.00 miles per gallon with a standard deviation of 3.87 miles per gallon. Evaluate this claim.
Weights of cereal in 16-ounce boxes are normally distributed with a mean of 16 ounces and a standard deviation of 0.12 ounce. Respond to the following:
It is believed that a significant majority of voters are dissatisfied with the local school system. A random sample of 1400 voters was obtained. Of those samples, 746 stated that they were dissatisfied with the school system.
When 16 seventeen-year-old women were randomly selected and tested with an aerobics test, the mean of their scores was found to be 37.9 with a sample standard deviation of 7.3.