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Course : TF2101 – Probability & Statistics

Lecturer : R. Sugeng Joko Sarwono / Miranti I. Mandasari
Vebi Nadhira / Naila Zahra
Assignment Date : November 27, 2019
Submission Date : December 3, 2019
Confidence Interval
1. A manufacturer of car batteries claims that his batteries will last, on average, 3 years with a
variance of 1 year. If 5 of these batteries have lifetimes of 1.9, 2.4, 3.0, 3.5, and 4.2 years,
construct a 95% confidence interval for σ 2 and decide if the manufacturer's claim that σ2 = 1 is
valid. Assume the population of battery lives to be approximately normally distributed.
2. An experiment reported in Popular Science compared fuel economics for two types of similarly
equipped diesel mini-trucks. Let us suppose that 12 Volkswagen and 10 Toyota trucks are: used
in 90 kilometers per hour steady-spaced tests. If the 12 Volkswagen trucks average 16
kilometers per liter with a standard deviation of 1.0 kilometer per liter and the 10 Toyota trucks
average 11 kilometers per liter with a standard deviation of 0.8 kilometer per liter,
a. Construct a 90% confidence interval for the difference between the average kilometers
per liter of these two mini-trucks. Assume that the distances per liter for each truck
model are approximately normally distributed with eq ual variances.
b. Construct a 98% confidence interval for σ1/ σ2, where σ1 and σ2 are, respectively, the
standard deviations for the distances obtained per liter of fuel by the Volkswagen and
Toyota mini-trucks.

Test of Means using Normal Distributions

3. Test the hypothesis that the average content of containers of a particular lubricant is 10 liters if
the contents of a random sample of 10 containers are 10.2, 9.7, 10.1, 10.3, 10.1, 9.8, 9.9, 10.4,
10.3, and 9.8 liters. Use a 0.01 level of significance and assume that the distribution of contents
is normal.
4. The mean lifetime of a sample of 100 fluorescent light bulbs produced by a company is
computed to be 1570 hours with a standard deviation of 120 hours. If is the mean lifetime of all
the bulbs produced by the company, test the hypothesis hours against the alternative hypothesis
hours, using a level of significance of (a) 0.05 and (b) 0.01.

Test Involving Differences of Means

5. A study was made to determine if the subject matter in a physics course is better understood
when a lab constitutes part of the course. Students were randomly selected to participate in
either a 3-semesterhour course without labs or a 4-semester-hour course with labs. In the section
with labs, 11 students made an average grade of 85 with a standard deviation of 4.7, and in the
section without labs, 17 students made an average grade of 79 with a standard deviation of 6.1.
Would you say at 0.01 level of significance that the laboratory course increases the average
grade by as much as 8 points? Assume the populations to be approximately normally distributed
with equal variances
 6. The following data represent the running times of films produced by two motion-picture
companies:
Company Time (minutes)
1 102 86 98 109 92
2 81 165 97 134 92 87 114
Test the hypothesis that the average running time of films produced by company 2 exceeds the
average running time of films produced by company 1 by 10 minutes against the one-sided
alternative that the difference is less than 10 minutes. Use a 0.1 level of significance and assume
the distributions of times to be approximately normal with unequal variances.

Test Concerning Variances

7. An experiment was conducted to compare the alcohol contents in a soy sauce at two different
production lines. Production was monitored eight times a day. The data are shown here.
Production line 1: 0.48 0.39 0.42 0.52 0.40 0.48 0.52 0.52 Production line 2: 0.38 0.37 0.39
0.41 0.38 0.39 0.40 0.39 Assume both populations are normal. It is suspected that production
line 1 is not producing as consistently as production line 2 in terms of alcohol contents. Test
the hypothesis that 1 = 2.at the 0.05 level of significance.
8. Two types of instruments for measuring the amount of sulfur monoxide in the atmosphere are
being compared in an air-pollution experiment. Researchers wish to determine whether the two
types of instruments yield measurements having the same variability. The readings in the
following table were recorded for the two instruments. Assuming the populations of
measurements to be approximately normally distributed, test the hypothesis that σA = σB against
the alternative that σA ≠ σB.
Sulfur Monoxide
Instrument A Instrument B
0.86 0.87
0.82 0.74
0.75 0.63
0.61 0.55
0.89 0.76
0.64 0.70
0.81 0.69
0.68 0.57
0.65 0.53

Analysis of Variance
9. Six different machines are being considered for use in manufacturing rubber seals. The
machines are being compared with respect to tensile strength of the product. A random sample
of four seals from each machine is used to determine whether the mean tensile strength varies
from machine to machine. Perform the analysis of variance at the 0.05 level of significance and
indicate whether or not the mean tensile strengths differ significantly for the six machines. The
following are the tensile-strength measurements in kilograms per square centimeter × 10-1:
Machine
1 2 3 4 5 6
17.5 16.4 20.3 14.6 17.5 18.3
16.9 19.2 15.7 16.7 19.2 16.2
15.8 17.7 17.8 20.8 16.5 17.5
18.6 15.4 18.9 18.9 20.5 20.1
10. The following data represent the final grades obtained by 5 students in mathematics, English,
French, and biology:
Subject
Student Math English French Biology
1 68 57 73 61
2 83 94 91 86
3 72 81 63 59
4 55 73 77 66
5 92 68 75 87
Test the hypothesis that the courses are of equal difficulty.

11. To ascertain the stability of vitamin C in reconstituted frozen orange juice concentrate stored
in a refrigerator for a period of up to one week, the study Vitamin C Retention in Reconstituted
Frozen Orange Juice was conducted by the Department of Human Nutrition and Foods at
Virginia Tech. Three types of frozen orange juice concentrate were tested using 3 different time
periods.

The time periods refer to the number of days from when the orange juice was blended until it
was tested. The results, in milligrams of ascorbic acid per liter, were recorded. Use a 0.05 level
of significance to test the hypothesis that
a. there is no difference in ascorbic acid contents among the different brands of orange
juice concentrate;
b. there is no difference in ascorbic acid contents for the different time periods;
c. the brands of orange juice concentrate and the number of days from the time the juice
was blended until it was tested do not interact.

12. In order to produce a superior type of chicken feed, 4 different quantities of each of two
chemicals are added to the basic ingredients. The different quantities of the first chemical are
indicated by A, B, C, D while those of the second chemical are indicated by , , , . The feed
is given to baby chicks arranged in groups according to 4 different initial weights, W1, W2,
W3, W4, and 4 different species, S1, S2, S3, S4. The increases in weight per unit time are given
in the Graeco-Latin square of the following table. Perform an analysis of variance of the
experiment at a 0.05 level of significance, stating any conclusions that can be drawn.

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