MTH 3401: TUTORIAL 6

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, FACULTY OF SCIENCE

UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA

1. An electric firm produces light bulbs in which their life are normally distributed
with standard deviation 40 hours. If 16 light bulbs are selected at random and
yields average life of 780 hours, find 95% confidence interval of the mean life of
all light bulbs produced by the firm? (760.4, 799.6)

2. A researcher wishes to determine the average weight of UPM students. How

many students should be selected such that he has 95% confidence that the sample
mean is within 15 kg from the true mean. Previous experience shows that the
standard deviation of the weight of UPM students is 40 kg. (27)

3. The weight of 10 randomly selected boxes of cereals are as follows; 10.2, 9.7, 10.1,
10.3, 10.1, 9.8, 9.9, 10.4, 10.3 and 9.8 oz. If the weights are normally distributed
a. Find 99% confidence intervas of the mean weight of all boxes of cereals?
(9.80, 10.32)
b. Find 95% confidence intervals of the variance weight of all boxes of cereals?

4. A random sample of size 20 from a normal distribution has x = 32.8 and standard
deviation s = 4.51. Construct 95% confidence intervals of .
(30.69, 34.91)
5. a) A random sample of 200 students are selected and 120 of them do not like
statistics subject. Find 98.02% confidence interval of the percentage of
students who do not like statistics subjects?
b) Find the maximum error with 95% confidence if the fraction of students
who do not like statistic subjects is 0.6?
a)(0.53,0.67) b)(0.0588)

6. From a random sample of 1000 households in a town, 628 of them have ASTRO.
Find 98.02% confidence interval for the proportion of households that have
ASTRO in their houses?
(0.592, 0.664)

7. 100 households in Putrajaya are selected at random and it is found that 64 prefer
to use Air-Freshner A. Find 99% confidence intervals of the proportion of
households in Putrajaya that prefer to use Air-Freshner A?
(0.5164, 0.7636)

8. The mean and standard deviation of the performance of 25 randomly selected

students are 25 and 0.3. respectively.
a) Construct 95% confidence interval of the mean performance of students?

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 b) If the sample mean is used to estimate the population mean, how large the
maximum error that might occur?
[(24.88, 25.12), 0.124]

9. The strenght of wires that is used to form two types of cables are as follows;

Type A : 34.8 34.5 35.0 34.6 34.2 34.6 34.9

Type B : 33.8 35.0 33.5 33.3 34.5 33.1 35.4 33.9 33.9

a) Find 95% confidence interval for 2B

b) Find 95% confidence interval for the mean strenght of wires for Type A
cable.
c) Find 95% confidence interval for the difference between the mean strenght
of wires for Type A and Type B, if 2 A 2B
d) Find 95% confidence interval for the difference between the mean strenght
of wires for Type A and Type B, if 2 A 2B

10. A soft drink machine has been controlled to produce soft drink in a glass whereby
the volume of soft drink in the glass is normally distributed with standard
deviation 15 ml. Find 95% confidence intervals for the mean volume of the soft
drink in a glass if a random sample of 25 glasses yield average volume equals 225
ml. How many samples are required if we want to have 95% confidence that the
sample mean is within 9 ml. from the true mean?

11. It is known that the variance tensile strength of thread produced by Factory A is
51b, while the tensile strenght of thread produced by Factory B is 31b. 10 threads
are selected at random from Factory A and B which yielded mean strenght of 12
and 9lb, respectively. Estimate 95% confidence intervals of the difference
between mean strenght of Factory A and B?

12. A researcher would like to estimate the mean number of timber per acre in a
jungle. Determine how many tree per acre that need to be investigated if he wants
95% confidence that the difference between the sample mean and population
mean is within 3 trees per acre. Experiences shows that 2 = 12 trees per acre?
[(25, 27)]

13. The dean of a faculty wishes to estimat the mean number of papers publish by the
lectures of that faculty. How many lectures should be chosen to estimate if the
sample mean of papers is required to be within 0.75 from the true mean, with 0.99
confidence? Assume that the number of papers publish is normally distributed.
The dean knows that the number of papers published by his lectures is between 1
and 7.

14. The weights of 7 women who are under the diet program are as follows;

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 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Before 58.5 60.3 61.7 69.0 64.0 62.6 56.7
After 60.0 54.9 58.1 62.1 58.5 59.9 54.4

Find 95% confidence interval of the difference between the mean weight.
Assume that the weight is normally distributed.
[0.990, 6.124]
15. The weights (kg) of 7 boxes of baby food Type X are as follows;

2.74, 2.86, 2.91, 2.74, 2.83, 2.86, 2.67

Estimate the variances of the weights of boxes of Type X food products with 95%
confidence? Assume that the weight is normally distributed. [30.65, 385]

16. The following data presents the time taken to complete certain task by two methods.

Method 1 Method 2

102 81
86 165
98 97
109 134
92 92

Assume that the distribution of both populatios are normal.

Find the 95% confidence interval for the difference between the mean time of
Method 1 and Method 2, if the variance time of Method 1 is assumed to be equal
to the variance time of Method 2?

17. Two types of tyres are being tested by fixing them to the rear tyre positions. Five
Cars are used in this study, over a given period of time. At the end of the study, the
quality depreciation of both types of tyres are measured as follows:

Tyre A Tyre B

10.6 10.2
9.8 9.4
12.3 11.8
9.7 9.1
8.8 8.3

Find the 95% confidence interval of the difference between the mean quality
depreciation of Tyre A and Tyre B?

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18. A reasearcher wishes to know whether the proportion of housewife in urban (A)
who prefer to use Type X detergent is more than the housewives of the rural area
(B). 150 urban housewives are selected at random and 113 of them prefer to use
Type X detergent. It is found that 104 out of 160 rural housewives prefer to use
Type X detergent.
a) Find 95% Confidence Interval for the difference between two proportions
of housewives who prefer to use Type X detergent in urban and rural?
b) Find 95% Confidence Interval of urban housewives who prefer to use
Type X detergent?

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