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T Test Questions

This document contains instructions and questions for a statistics test involving hypothesis testing using t-tests. There are multiple questions testing students' abilities to perform t-tests to analyze sample data and determine if samples are drawn from populations with given characteristics or if means of samples are equal. Students are asked to state assumptions of t-tests, define hypotheses, calculate p-values, and make conclusions based on significance levels.

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T Test Questions

This document contains instructions and questions for a statistics test involving hypothesis testing using t-tests. There are multiple questions testing students' abilities to perform t-tests to analyze sample data and determine if samples are drawn from populations with given characteristics or if means of samples are equal. Students are asked to state assumptions of t-tests, define hypotheses, calculate p-values, and make conclusions based on significance levels.

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T Test Questions [50 marks]

1a. [7 marks]
Give your answers to four significant figures.
A die is thrown 120 times with the following results.

Showing all steps clearly, test whether the die is fair


(i) at the 5% level of significance;
(ii) at the 1% level of significance.

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1b. [3 marks]
Explain what is meant by “level of significance” in part (a).

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2a. [7 marks]
A calculator generates a random sequence of digits. A sample of 200 digits is randomly
selected from the first 100 000 digits of the sequence. The following table gives the number
of times each digit occurs in this sample.

It is claimed that all digits have the same probability of appearing in the sequence.
Test this claim at the 5% level of significance.

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2b. [2 marks]
Explain what is meant by the 5% level of significance.

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3a. [1 mark]
Anita is concerned that the construction of a new factory will have an adverse affect on the
fish in a nearby lake. Before construction begins she catches fish at random, records their
weight and returns them to the lake. After the construction is finished she collects a second,
random sample of weights of fish from the lake. Her data is shown in the table.

Anita decides to use a t-test, at the 5% significance level, to determine if the mean weight of
the fish changed after construction of the factory.
State an assumption that Anita is making, in order to use a t-test.

3b. [1 mark]
State the hypotheses for this t-test.

3c. [3 marks]
Find the p-value for this t-test.

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3d. [2 marks]
State the conclusion of this test, in context, giving a reason.

4a. [5 marks]
In an effort to study the level of intelligence of students entering college, a psychologist
collected data from 4000 students who were given a standard test. The predictive norms
for this particular test were computed from a very large population of scores having a
normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation of 10. The psychologist wishes
to determine whether the 4000 test scores he obtained also came from a normal
distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 10. He prepared the following table
(expected frequencies are rounded to the nearest integer):

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Copy and complete the table, showing how you arrived at your answers.

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4b. [6 marks]
Test the hypothesis at the 5% level of significance.

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5a. [1 mark]
A pharmaceutical company has developed a new drug to decrease cholesterol. The final
stage of testing the new drug is to compare it to their current drug. They have 150
volunteers, all recently diagnosed with high cholesterol, from which they want to select a
sample of size 18. They require as close as possible 20% of the sample to be below the age
of 30, 30% to be between the ages of 30 and 50 and 50% to be over the age of 50.

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State the name for this type of sampling technique.

5b. [3 marks]
Calculate the number of volunteers in the sample under the age of 30.

5c. [1 mark]
Half of the 18 volunteers are given the current drug and half are given the new drug. After
six months each volunteer has their cholesterol level measured and the decrease during the
six months is shown in the table.

Calculate the mean decrease in cholesterol for


The new drug.

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5d. [1 mark]
The current drug.

5e. [1 mark]
The company uses a t-test, at the 1% significance level, to determine if the new drug is
more effective at decreasing cholesterol.
State an assumption that the company is making, in order to use a t-test.

5f. [1 mark]
State the hypotheses for this t-test.

5g. [3 marks]
Find the p-value for this t-test.

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5h. [2 marks]
State the conclusion of this test, in context, giving a reason.

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