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Chapter 9

The document describes 11 hypothesis tests conducted at various significance levels to analyze claims about data from polls, sports challenges, medical tests, sample surveys, and manufacturing specifications. The hypotheses tests include: testing if 75% of adults say certain actions are morally wrong based on a poll; testing if over 13% of challenges in a tennis tournament were successful; testing if less than 10% of medical test results were wrong; and testing if a sample of pennies has a mean weight equal to a manufacturing specification.

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Chapter 9

The document describes 11 hypothesis tests conducted at various significance levels to analyze claims about data from polls, sports challenges, medical tests, sample surveys, and manufacturing specifications. The hypotheses tests include: testing if 75% of adults say certain actions are morally wrong based on a poll; testing if over 13% of challenges in a tennis tournament were successful; testing if less than 10% of medical test results were wrong; and testing if a sample of pennies has a mean weight equal to a manufacturing specification.

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In a Pew Research Center poll of 745 randomly


selected adults, 589 said that it is morally wrong to not
report all income on tax returns. Use a 0.01
significance level to test the claim that 75% of adults
say that it is morally wrong to not report all income on
tax returns.
2. The Hawk-Eye electronic system is used in tennis for
displaying an instant replay that shows whether a ball
is in bounds or out of bounds. In the first U.S. Open
that used the Hawk-Eye system, players could
challenge calls made by referees. The Hawk-Eye system
was then used to confirm or overturn the referee’s call.
Players made 839 challenges, and 327 of those
challenges were successful with the call overturned
(based on data reported in USA Today). Use a 0.01
significance level to test the claim that the proportion
of challenges that are successful is greater than 13%.
3. The company Drug Test Success provides a “1-Panel-
THC” test for marijuana usage. Among 300 tested
subjects, results from 27 subjects were wrong (either a
false positive or a false negative). Use a 0.05
significance level to test the claim that less than 10% of
the test results are wrong.
4. A simple random sample of 50 adults is obtained,
and each person’s red blood cell count (in cells per
microliter) is measured. The sample mean is 5.23. The
population standard deviation for red blood cell counts
is 0.54. Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim
that the sample is from a population with a mean less
than 5.4, which is a value often used for the upper limit
of the range of normal values.
5. A simple random sample of 25 filtered 100 mm
cigarettes is obtained, and the tar content of each
cigarette is measured. The sample has a mean of 13.2
mg and a standard deviation of 3.7 mg. Use a 0.05
significance level to test the claim that the mean tar
content of filtered 100 mm cigarettes is less than 21.1
mg, which is the mean for unfiltered king size
cigarettes.
6. The heights are measured for the simple random
sample of supermodels Crawford, Bundchen, Pestova,
Christenson, Hume, Moss, Campbell, Schiffer, and
Taylor. Those heights have a mean of 70.0 in. and a
standard deviation of 1.5 in. Use a 0.05 significance
level to test the claim that supermodels have heights
with a standard deviation less than 2.5 in.
7. The U.S.Mint has a specification that pennies have a
mean weight of 2.5g. Data Set lists the weights (in
grams) of 37 pennies manufactured after 1983. Those
pennies have a mean weight of 2.4991 g and a
standard deviation of 0.01648. Use a 0.05 signifiacane
level to test the claim that this sample is from a
population with a mean weight equal to 2.5 g.
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