Nicole

Clark
Math 1040
Term Project Part 6
Hypothesis Testing

1) A hypothesis test is a procedure for testing a claim about a property of a
population. It begins with a null hypothesis and an alternative hypothesis. Then
you choose the sampling distribution that is relevant and either find a p-value or
identify the critical values and make a conclusion about the claim.

2) Proportions of each color of candy from the overall class data.
Red:
291/1380 0.2109

Sample size 1380

Using the above data and a 0.05 significance level, test the claim that that 20% of all
skittles candies are red.

Null Hypothesis H0: p= .20
Test Hypothesis H1: p .20
Significance level = 0.05
Sampling distribution: Normal
( 5 5, 1380 . 21 5 1380 . 79 5
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Test statistic: = !"
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z-value: 1.009
p-value: .3128

Fail to reject the null hypothesis because the p-value is greater than the significance
level
There is sufficient evidence to support the claim that 20% of skittles are red.

3)

Summary statistics for number of candies per bag:

Column
n Mean Std. dev. Min Q1 Median Q3 Max
Total
23 60
2.56
53 58 61
61 65

Using the above data and a 0.01 significance level, test the claim that the mean
number of candies in a bag of Skittles is more than 55.

Null Hypothesis H0: = 55
Test Hypothesis H1: > 55
Significance level: 0.01
Sample distribution: normal

Test statistic: =

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z-value: -9.3669
p-value: 0
Because the p-value is less than the significance level of 0.01 we reject the null
hypothesis and accept the test hypothesis.
This means that that there is evidence that the mean number of candies in a bag of
Skittles is more than 55.

4)Requirements of Hypothesis Tests about a population proportion
The sample observations are a simple random sample. This requirement was
not entirely met because we used a cluster method to obtain our sample.
Although the clusters were selected randomly, it was not a true simple
random sample.
The conditions for a binomial distribution are satisfies.
1. There is a fixed number of independent trials. We had a fixed number
of trials based on the number of candies in our bags and the color of
candies were independent of each other. (If one candy was made red,
it didnt impact if another candy was another color.)
2. Constant probablitliy
3. Each trail has two outcomes (red or not red)
The condition np is greater than or equal to 5 and nq is greater than or equal
to 5 are both satisfied. .2*1380=276, .8*1380=1104.

Requirements of Hypothesis Tests about a Population Mean
Sample is a simple random sample. Yes, our bags of candies were randomly
selected.
Either the population mean is normally distributed or n>30. Even though n
is not greater than 30, the mean is normally distributed.