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1. A major car manufacturer wants to test a new engine to determine whether it meets new air pollution
standards. The mean emission of all engines of this type must be less than 20 parts per million of carbon.
Ten engines are manufactured for testing purpose, and the emission level of each is determined. The data
are listed below:
15.6 16.2 22.5 20.5 16.4 19.4 16.6 17.9 12.7 13.9
Do the data supply evidence to allow the manufacturer to conclude that this type of engine meets the
pollution standard? Assume that the production process is stable and the manufacturer is willing to risk a
Type I error with probability 0.01.
2. The reputations (and hence sales) of many businesses can be severely damaged by shipments of
manufactured items that contain a large percentage of defectives. For example, a manufacturer of
alkaline batteries may want to be reasonably certain that fewer than 5% of its batteries are defective.
Suppose 300 batteries are randomly selected from a very large shipment; each is tested and 10 defective
batteries are found. Does this provide sufficient evidence for the manufacturer to conclude that the
fraction defective in the entire shipment is less than 0.05? Use a 0.01 significance level.
3. A local pizza parlor advertises that their average time for delivery of pizza is within 30 minutes of receipt
of the order. The delivery times for random sample of 60 orders were recorded, with the following
results: x-bar:; 34 minutes; s :; 21 minutes. Is there sufficient evidence to conclude that the actual mean
delivery time is larger than what is claimed by the pizza parlor? Use a significance level of 0.01.
4. A machine is designed to fill cereal boxes with a net weight of 16 ounces. It is important that the machine
operate accurately: if it fills too much, the company wastes excess cereal; if it underfills the boxes, the
company risks a penalty from the Food and Drug Administration. The company has instituted a new
quality control program to monitor the amount of fill of its cereal boxes. Every four hours, a random
sample of 100 boxes is select'ed from the production line, and the amounts of fill are noted. If there is
evidence (at 5% significance) that the mean amount of fill differs from 16 ounces, then the filling machine
is reset. Suppose one such inspection yielded the following results: x-bar:; 15.98 ounces; s :; .21 ounce.
Should the machine be reset?
5. A transcoceanic airline conducted a study to determine whether the mean weight of the baggage checked
by a passenger on its Miami to London flight differs significantly from 45 pounds. A random sample of 25
passengers was selected, and the weight of each passenger's checked baggage was recorded. The
following results were obtained: x - bar =43.5 pounds; s 6 pounds. If the airline is willing to risk a Type 1
error with probability 0.05, what should they conclude from this study?
6. Refer to question 3 and construct a 95% confidence interval for the true mean weight of checked baggage
of passengers on the Miami to London flight.
7. In previous years, a mail order company observed that 10% of its customers placed an additional order
within six months of their original order. However, the records for a random sample of 1000 recent
customers indicated that only 80 customers placed an additional order within six months of their original
order. Is there evidence (at 5% significance) that the proportion of customers who place additional orders
has decreased from previous years?
8. A national retail chain wishes to estimate p, the proportion of charge customers who are more than one
month behind in their payments. If they want to be 95% confident that their estimate is within 0.01 of the
true value of p, how many accounts should be sampled? (Past evidence indicates that the proportion of
delinquent accounts is approximately 0.15.)
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