National Institute of Technology Calicut

Department of Mathematics

MA2001D Mathematics – III Tutorial Sheet – III (Monsoon Semester 2019-20)

1. The standard deviation of the lifetimes of a sample of 200 electric light bulbs was computed to be
100 hours. How large sample must we take in order to be 99%confident that the true population
standard deviation will not differ from the sample standard deviation by more than (a) 5% (b)
10%?
2. In the past the standard deviation of weights of certain 1135- gram packages filled by a machine
was 7.1 grams. A random sample of 20 packages showed a standard deviation of 9.1 grams. Is
the apparent increase in variability significant at the (a) 0.05 and (b) 0.01 level of significance?
3. The annual temperature of a city is obtained by finding the mean temperatures on the 15 th day of
each month. The standard deviation of the annual temperatures of the city over a period of 100
years was 8.90C. During the last 15 years the standard deviation of annual temperature was
computed as 5.60C. Test the hypothesis that the temperatures in the city have become less
variable than in the past, using the significance level of 5%.
4. A usual complaint of interactive system users is the large variance of the response time. While
contemplating the purchase of a new interactive computer system, we measure 30 random
samples of response time, and the sample variance is computed to be 25 ms 2. Assuming the
response times are approximately normally distributed, find a 95% confidence interval for the
population variance.
5. Execution times (in seconds) of 30 jobs processed by a computing centre were measured and
found to be: 10 19 90 40 15 11 32 17 4 152 23 13 36 101
2 14 2 23 34 15 27 1 57 17 3 30 50 4
62 48
Find the 90% confidence intervals for the mean and the variance of execution time of a job.
Assume that the execution time is approximately normally distributed.
6. In the past the standard deviation of the response time to edition commands of a time-sharing
system was 25 milliseconds and the mean response time was 400 milliseconds. A new version of
the operating system was installed, and with this random sample of 21 editing commands
experienced a standard deviation of response times of 32 milliseconds. Is this increase in
variability significant at a 5% level of significance? Is it significant at a 1% level of significance?
7. In an experiment on extrasensory perception, a subject in one room is asked to state the color (red
or blue) of a card chosen from a deck of 50 well-shuffled cards by an individual in another room.
It is unknown to the subject how many red or blue cards are in the deck. If the subject identifies
32 cards correctly, determine whether the results are significant at the (a) 0.05 and (b) 0.01 level
of significance.
8. The manufacturer of a patent medicine claimed that is it was 90% effective in relieving an allergy
for a period of 8 hours. In a sample of 200 people who had allergy, the medicine provided relief
for 160 people. Determine whether the manufacturer’s claim is legitimate.
9. A manufacturer claimed that at least 95% of the equipment, which he supplied to a factory,
confirmed to specifications. An examination of a sample of 200 pieces of equipment revealed
that 18 were faulty. Test his claim at a significance level of (a) 1% (b) 5%.
10. An urn contains red and white marbles in an unknown proportion. A random sample of 60
marbles selected with replacement from the urn showed that 70% were red. Find:
(i) 95% and 99% confidence limits for the actual proportion of red marbles in the urn.
(ii) size of the sample of marbles in order to be 95% and 99% confident that the true sample
proportions do not differ more than 5%.
11. A sample poll of 300 voters from district A and 200 voters from district B showed that 56% and
48% respectively were in favor of a given candidates. At 5% levels of significance test the
hypothesis that (a) there is a difference between the districts, (b) the candidate is preferred in
district A.
12. On an elementary school examination in spelling, the mean grade of 32 boys was 72 with
standard deviation of 8, while the mean grade of 36 girls was 75 with a standard deviation of 6.
Test the hypothesis at (a) 0.05, (b) 0.01 level of significance that the girls are better in spelling
than boys.
13. Random samples of 200 bolts manufactured by a machine A and 100 bolts manufactured by
machine B showed 19 and 5 defective bolts respectively. Test the hypothesis that (a) the two
machines are showing different qualities of performances and, (b) Machine B is performing better
than Machine A. Use 0.05 level of significance.
14. Two random samples drawn from two normal populations are:
Sample I : 20 16 26 27 23 22 18 24 25 19
Sample II: 27 33 42 35 32 34 38 28 41 43 30 37
Can they be regarded as drawn from two normal distributions with the same variance?
15. Eight- meter sections of copper wire produced at two different plants have a maximum resistance
specification of 1 ohm. Historically, the defective rates at each plant have been 10% at plant A
and 11% at plant B, not meeting this specification. Recent samples of 150 and 100 wires at plant
A and B respectively each had 12 wires that did not meet the specification. (a) Are the defective
rates equal? (b) If the historical defective rates are neglected, is the decision in part (a) different?
16. The following table gives the observed values for weekly defects by three shifts and two
production lines. Use this data to determine if there is any relationship between the shift and the
production line.

Line Shift
1 2 3
1 10 12 13
2 14 9 12
17. The personnel director at your company has asked you to verify the statement that absenteeism is
twice as bad on Mondays as the rest of the week. You are given personnel records for 3 months
covering 890 days of lost work. Test the statement at the 5%level

Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Days lost 304 176 139 141 130
18. The response time T of a circuit activator varies between 0.01 and 0.06s in discrete 0.01 units.
The observed frequencies in 100 tests are given. Using level of significance of 10% determine if
the observed data follows a discrete uniform distribution of the form: f (t) = 1/k: t = k
different values and 0 elsewhere.

Response time t 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06

Frequency 18 18 15 14 19 16
19. A new hay-bailing machine requires a wire with a high breaking strength. In a previous sample
of 50 types of wire, 30 failed to meet the specification. Bailing machine sales personnel have
collected field data from 500 agriculturists on the number of completed bales before a breakage is
observed. If X is the bale number on which the first breakage takes place, the observed results
may be summarized as follows:

X 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 287 120 40 30 15 8
Determine if the geometric distribution is a good choice for this data if level of significance is
1%.
20. The number of flaws per 100 m 2 of cloth is to be checked by a quality control chart which
assumes an underlying Poisson population. For the last 75 samples the number of flaws have
been recorded as under:

Number of flaws 0 1 2 3 4 5 ≥
6
Frequency 20 30 15 7 2 1 0
If the level of significance is 5%, is the Poisson population assumption a reasonable one?

21. The number of taxis waiting at a cab stand is thought to follow a uniform distribution. The
number present was recorded at 50 random times:

Number of taxis 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Frequency 4 6 8 5 7 6 6 5 3
Use the appropriate goodness of fit test to determine if the uniform distribution is a good choice
at the 5% significance level.

22. Car pools are being promoted by the Department of Transportation in the city of Hueco. A traffic
engineer observed X, the number of passengers in 80 cars on the highway. Now the engineer
wants to fit a discrete distribution to the following data.
a) Select an appropriate distribution for the data below.
b) Estimate the parameters.
c) Determine whether the choice was a good one at 0.05 significance.

X 0 1 2 3 4 5
Frequency 30 21 11 10 6 2
23. The time between arrivals at a ticket counter was recorded for 200 customers in an interval of
seven minutes:

Time (min) 0-1 1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 5-6 6-7

Frequency 60 30 40 30 20 10 10
2
Use χ goodness of fit test to determine if the time between arrivals follows an exponential
distribution. Use 0.05 significance level.
24. The average number of back-ordered units is recorded for an item purchased from four vendors
under a contract and an as- needed basis. Is there a relationship between the vendor and method
of ordering at significance level 0.10 and 0.05?

Vendor
Orders
1 2 3 4
Contract 12 17 6 11
as needed 25 18 10 5
25. On a particular proposal of national importance, democrats and republicans cast votes as
indicated in the table. At a level of significance of (a) 0.01 and (b) 0.05, test the hypothesis that
there is no difference between the two parties in so far as this proposal is concerned.

In favor Opposed Undecided

Democrats 85 78 37
Republicans 118 61 25

26. The table shows the relation between the performances of students in Mathematics and Physics.
Test the hypothesis that the performance in Physics is independent of performance in
Mathematics, using a (a) 0.05 and (b) 0.01 significance level.
 MATHEMATICS
High Medium Low
Grades Grades Grades
High Grades 23 42 15

PHYSICS
Medium Grades 78 37 37
Low Grades 61 25 25

27. The owner of machine shop must decide which of two snack-vending machines to install in his
shop. If each machine is tested 250 times, the machine fails to work (neither delivers the snack
nor returns the money) 13 times, and the second machine fails to work 7 times, test at the 0.05
level of significance whether the difference between the corresponding sample proportions is
2
significant, using the χ statistic.
28. In a random sample of 160 workers exposed to a certain amount of radiation, 24 experienced
some ill effects. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the corresponding true percentage using
the large sample confidence interval formula.
29. If 26 of 200 brand A tyres fail to last 20,000 miles, whereas the corresponding figures for 200
tyres each of brands B, C and D are 23, 15 and 32, use the 0.05 level of significance to test the
null hypothesis that there is no difference in the quality of the four kinds of tyres with regard to
their durability.
30. One method of seeding clouds was successful in 57 of 150 attempts while another method was
successful in 33 of 100 attempts. At the 0.05 level of significance, can we conclude that the first
method is better than the second? Find a large sample 95% confidence interval for the true
difference of probabilities.
31. Two bonding agents, A and B are available for making a laminated beam of 50 beams made with
agent A, 11 failed a stress test, whereas 19 of the 50 beams made with agent B failed. At the 0.05
level, can we conclude that agent A is better than agent B? Find a large sample 95% confidence
interval for the true difference of the probabilities of failure.
32. The following is the distribution of the daily number of power failures reported in western city on
300 days. Test at the 0.05 level of significance whether the daily number of power failures in this
city is a random variable having the Poisson distribution with λ = 3.2.

Number of power failures 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Number of days 9 43 64 62 42 36 22 14 6 2
33.
Mechanical Engineers, testing a new arc welding technique, classified welds both with respect to
appearance and an X-ray inspection. Test for independence using α = 0.05 and find the individual

cell contributions to the χ2 statistic.

Appearance Total
Bad Normal Good
Bad 20 7 3
30
Normal 13 51 16
X-ray

7 12 21 80
Good
40
Total 40 70 40 150