INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS ECON1005 Academic Year 2014/2015, Semester I

Graded Assignment #3
This assignment is to be prepared as a WORD document. It is based on your
understanding of the subject matter cover in Unit 8. The deadline for uploading this
Graded Assignment is 3:30pm EC Time on Monday November 10th, 2014. This
assignment has an allocation of 4 marks. This is NOT a group assignment. It is expect
that you will do your own work. Presentation of another person's work will be severely
penalized.
Upload your submission to the appropriate drop box for grading by your etutor. Note that
your assignment should be entitled: Your First Name Your Last Name ECON1005
Assignment #3. For example: Mary McDonald ECON1005 Assignment #3

Question 1 [10 marks]

A sample of 40 sales receipts from a grocery store has x = $137 and s = $30.2. Assist the
owner of the grocery store to these values to test, at the 5% level of significance, whether
or not the mean sales at the grocery store is different from $150.
(a) State the null and alternative hypotheses for the test.
(b) Calculate the test statistics.
(c) Determine the rejection region(s) for the test.
(d) State the conclusion for the test giving reasons for your answer.
Question 2 [10 marks]
A study was conducted to investigate the association between the service at a famous
restaurant and gender of the patrons. Randomly selected patrons were asked to indicate
their level of satisfaction with the service at the restaurant. The data was inputted into
MINITAB version 17 for analysis. See Exhibit 1 below.

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INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS ECON1005 Academic Year 2014/2015, Semester I

Exhibit 1
Chi-Square Test for Association: level of satisfaction, gender
Rows: Level of Satisfaction

Columns: Gender

Male

Female

All

Very Satisfied

38
42.31
0.4386

72
67.69
0.2741

110

Satisfied

33
34.62
0.0754

57
55.38
0.0471

90

Neutral

42
30.77
4.0992

38
49.23
2.5620

80

Dissatisfied

26
26.92
0.0316

44
?
0.0198

70

Very Dissatisfied

11
15.38
1.2496

29
24.62
??

40

150

240

390

All
Cell Contents:

Count
Expected count
Contribution to Chi-square

Pearson Chi-Square = 9.579, DF = ???, P-Value = 0.048

(a) State the null and alternative hypotheses for the test.
(b) Determine the missing values ?, ?? and ???.
(c) State the conclusion for the test giving reasons for your answer.
Total marks 20 [Graded out of 4]

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