Module 4 Review
1. Psychologists want to estimate the mean attention time given to twins per week by their parents.
A sample of 46 sets of twin boys is taken and the attention time given to them by their parents in a
week is recorded. The results are a mean time of 22.08 hours with a standard deviation of 16.34
hours. Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean attention time given all
twins. Round your answers to two decimal places.
18.03, 26.13
2. A sample of 45 Charleston County households have a mean income of $21,633 with a standard
deviation of $7,715, find a 95% confidence interval for the true population mean income for
households in Charleston County. Round your answers to the nearest dollar.
$19,315 < $23,951
3. Unoccupied seats on flights cause airlines to lose revenue. Suppose a large airline wants to
estimate its average number of unoccupied seats per flight over the past year. To accomplish this,
the records of 225 flights are randomly selected and the number of unoccupied seats is noted for
each of the sampled flights. The sample mean is 11.6 seats and the standard deviation is 4.1 seats.
Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean number of unoccupied seats per
flight during the past year. Round your answers to one decimal.
11.0,12.1
4. Microsoft wants to estimate the percentage of the population that regularly use Bing to perform
internet searches. A random sample of 640 people revealed that 25 of them regularly use Bing.
Construct a 99% confidence interval for the true population proportion of regular Bing users.
Round your answers to four decimal places.
5. Scientists gather 12 different soil samples from a region to test for ground toxins in the water
supply. The amount of toxins present in ppm (parts per million) are given in the data below. Find
the 99% confidence interval for the population mean amount of ground toxins. You may assume
the population is normally distributed. Round your answers to one decimal place.
25, 39, 44, 13, 13, 6, 23, 33, 17, 19, 14, 28
12.5,33.1
6. A Gallup poll wants to determine the mean number of books Americans read each year. How
many subjects are needed to estimate the average number of books Americans read with a margin
of error of 2 books with 95% confidence? Initial results of the Gallup poll indicate that the
population standard deviation is 16.6 books.
7. An insurance company advertises that it takes an average of less than 21 days to process an auto
accident claim. To check the truth of this claim, a group of investigators randomly selected 35
claims. They found that it took the company an average of 19 days to process these claims with a
standard deviation of 8 days. Test the insurance company's claim using a 5% level of significance.
H0: m=21
H1: m<21(claim)
P=.0742
Fail to reject H0
Is not, support
8. A study of the number of business lunches that executives claim as expenses per month gives the
following results: Sixty bank executives average 8.4 such deductions with a standard deviation of
1.8, while fifty insurance executives average 9.6 deductions with a standard deviation of 2.1. Test
the claim that bank executives have fewer deductions per month, on average, than insurance
executives using α = 0.01.
H0: m1=m2
H1: m1<m2
9. Pathological gambling is an impulse-control disorder. The National Gambling Impact Study
Commission randomly selected 2417 adults and found that 35 were pathological gamblers. Is
there evidence to conclude that more than 1% of the adult population are pathological gamblers
as claimed by the American Psychiatric Association? Use α = 0.01 to test the claim.
10. An internet service provider claimed that its users averaged 13 hours per week. To test this claim,
a competitor conducted a survey of 240 customers and found that the average time spent online
was 12.5 hours per week with a standard deviation of 5.2 hours per week. Test the claim using α
= 0.05.
11. In a randomly selected group of people who bought compact cars, 312 were women and 338 were
men. Test the claim that women constitute less than half of the buyers of compact cars using a
level of significance of 5%.
12. A test was devised to judge the reflex times of candidates applying to operate high speed
machinery. The results were divided into two age groups: the first group consisted of men over
40, and the second group consisted of men under the age of 40. Test the claim that there is a
difference in the mean reflex times between older and younger men using a level of significance of
5%. You may assume that the parent populations of reflex times are normally distributed.
Group 1: 25.7, 24.8, 6.0, 15.1, 12.4, 20.5, 3.4, 10.7, 26.9, 7.3, 22.1, 25.9
Group 2: 7.8, 11.5, 2.5, 14.8, 5.0, 2.5, 15.9, 9.6, 16.2, 9.2, 9.1, 5.4
SOLUTIONS:
1. 18.03 < µ < 26.13
2. $19,315 < µ < $23,951
3. 11.1 < µ < 12.1
4. 1.93% < p < 5.88%
5. 12.5 < µ < 33.1
6. n = 265 subjects
7. H0: µ = 21 [ Note: you can also have µ ≤ 21 for H0 ]
H1: µ < 21 (claim)
p-value: 0.0742
Decision: Fail to Reject H0.
Interpretation: Using a %5 level of significance, there is insufficient evidence to support the claim
that it takes an average of less than 21 days to process an auto accident claim.
8. H0: µ1 = µ2 [ Note: µ1 represents bank executives; µ1 ≥ µ2 is acceptable for H0 ]
H1: µ1 < µ2 (claim)
p-value: 0.0010
Decision: Reject H0.
Interpretation: Using a 1% level of significance, there is sufficent evidence to support the claim
that bank executives have fewer deductions per month, on average, than insurance executives.
9. H0: p = 0.01 [ Note: p ≤ 0.01 is also acceptable for H0 ]
H1: p > 0.01 (claim)
p-value: 0.0134
Decision: Fail to reject H0.
Interpretation: Using a 1% level of significance, there is insufficient evidence to support the claim
that more than 1% of the adult population are pathological gamblers.
10. H0: µ = 13 (claim)
H1: µ ≠ 13
p-value: 0.1376
Decision: Fail to reject H0.
Interpretation: Using a 5% level of significance, there is insufficient evidence to reject the claim
that the internet service provider’s users averaged 13 hours per week.
11. H0: p = 0.5 [ Note: p ≥ 0.5 is also acceptable for H0 ]
H1: p < 0.5 (claim)
p-value: 0.1539
Decision: Fail to reject H0.
Interpretation: Using a 5% level of significance, there is insufficient evidence to support the claim
that women constitute less than half of the buyers of compact cars.
12. Ho: µ1 = µ2 [ Note: µ1 represents the older age group ]
H1: µ1 ≠ µ2 (claim)
p-value: 0.0159
Decision: Reject H0.
Interpretation: Using a 5% level of significance, there is sufficient evidence to support the claim
that there is a difference in the mean reflex times between older and younger men.
