DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY-DASMARIÑAS

College of Science and Computer Studies

Mathematics and Statistics Department
MIDTERM EXAM in MENG112 (Applied Statistics for Research)
Second Semester SY 2018 – 2019

PART II.
Perform a complete hypothesis testing on each problem.

1. It is claimed that an automobile is driven on the average more than 20000 km per year. To test this
claim, a random sample of 100 automobile owners are asked to keep a record of the kilometers they
travel. Would you agree with this claim if the random sample showed an average of 23500 kms and a
standard deviation of 3900km?

2. The sodium content of twenty 300-gram boxes of organic cornflakes was determined. The data (in
milligrams) are as follows: 131.15, 130.69, 130.91, 129.54, 129.64, 128.77, 130.72, 128.33, 128.24,
129.65, 130.14, 129.29, 128.71, 129.00, 129.39, 130.42, 129.53, 130.12, 129.78, 130.92. Can you
support a claim that mean sodium content of this brand of cornflakes differs from 130 milligrams? Use
 = 0.05. Find the P-value.

3. Two manufacturers of chain links are being evaluated to determine if one manufacturer’s chain link have
significantly greater breaking strength than those of the other. The following data were gathered:
Manufacturer Mean Standard deviation Sample size
Chain link 1 310 25 35
Chain link 2 235 47 39
Decide whether manufacturer of chain link 2 has the higher average breaking strength than manufacturer
of chain link 1. Use  = 0.05.
4. According to the article “Practice and Fatigue Effects on the Programming of a Coincident Timing
Response”, published in the Journal of Human Movement Studies in 1997, practice under fatigued
conditions distorts mechanisms which govern performance. An experiment was conducted using 15
college males who were trained to make a continuous horizontal right-to-left arm movement from a
micro-switch to a barrier, knocking over the barrier coincident with the arrival of a clock sweep hand to
the 6 o’clock. The absolute value of the difference between the time, in milliseconds, that it took to
knock over the barrier and the time for the sweep hand to reach the 6 o’clock position (500 msec.) was
recorded. Each participant performed the task five times under prefatigue and post fatigue conditions,
and the sums of the absolute differences for the five performances were recorded as follows:

Subject 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Pre
158 92 65 98 33 89 148 58 142 117 74 66 109 57 85
fatigue
Post
91 59 115 126 123 91 92 77 134 116 153 119 143 95 100
fatigue
An increase in the mean absolute time differences when the task is performed under post fatigue
conditions would support the claim that practice under fatigued conditions distorts mechanisms that
govern performance. Assuming the populations to be normally distributed, test this claim.

5. The Bieber Manufacturing Co. operates 24 hours a day, five days a week. The workers rotate shifts
each week. Todd Bieber, the owner, is interested in whether there is a difference in the number of units
produced when the employees work on various shifts. A sample of five workers is selected and their
output recorded on each shift.

Employee Day Evening Night

Output Output Output
McCartney 31 25 35

Neary 33 26 33

Schoen 28 24 30

Thompson 30 29 28

Wagner 28 26 27

Is there a significant difference in the number of produce when employees work on various shifts?

Output:
Descriptives

N Mean Std. Deviation

shift 1 (day output) 5 30.0000 2.12132
shift 2 (evening output) 5 26.0000 1.87083
shift 3 (night output) 5 30.6000 3.36155
Total 15 28.8667 3.15926
 ANOVA

Sum of Mean
Squares df Square F Sig.
Between 62.533 2 31.267 4.860 .028
Groups
Within Groups 77.200 12 6.433
Total 139.733 14