22.

A statistics teacher started class one day by drawing the names of 10 students out of a hat and
asked them to do as many pushups as they could. The 10 randomly selected students averaged 15
pushups per person with a standard deviation of 9 pushups. Suppose the distribution of the population
of number of pushups that can be done is approximately normal. The 95% confidence interval for the
true mean number of pushups that can be done is _____. a. 5.75 to 24.25
b. 8.56 to 21.40
c. 11.31 to 18.55
d. 13.02 to 16.98
25. In a random sample of 400 registered voters, 120 indicated they plan to vote for Trump for
President. Determine a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of all the registered voters who will
vote for Trump.
a. (0.25, 0.34)
b. (0.27, 0.32)
c. (0.29, 0.30)
d. Cannot be determined from the information given.

28. Two approaches to drawing a conclusion in a hypothesis test are _____.

a. p-value and critical value
b. one-tailed and two-tailed
c. Type I and Type II
d. null and alternative

29. A Type I error is committed when _____.

a. a true alternative hypothesis is not accepted
b. a true null hypothesis is rejected
c. the critical value is greater than the value of the test statistic
d. the validity of a claim was rejected

30. What are the two decisions that you can make from performing a hypothesis test?
a. Reject the null hypothesis; Fail to reject the null hypothesis
b. Accept the null hypothesis; Accept the alternative hypothesis
c. Make a Type I error; Make a Type II error
d. Reject the alternative hypothesis; Accept the null hypothesis

32. A pizza shop advertises that they deliver in 30 minutes or less or it is free. People who
live in homes that are located on the opposite side of town believe it will take the pizza shop
longer than 30 minutes to make and deliver the pizza. Write the null and alternative
hypotheses that can be used to conduct a significance test. a. H0: u ≤ 30, Ha: u > 30
b.
H0: u < 30, Ha: u > 30
c.
H0: u ≥ 30, Ha: u < 30
d.
H0: u > 30, Ha: u < 30
33. A pizza shop advertises that they deliver in 30 minutes or less or it is free. People who
live in homes that are located on the opposite side of town believe it will take the pizza shop
longer than 30 minutes to make and deliver the pizza. A random sample of 50 deliveries to
homes across town was taken and the mean time was computed to be 32 minutes. What is the
appropriate symbol to represent the value, 32?
a.
b.
c. n = 32

d.

34. The proportion of dental procedures that are extractions is 0.16. Which of the following
exemplifies a Type I error in this situation?
a.We reject the claim that the proportion of dental procedures that are extractions is 0.16
when the proportion is actually different from 0.16.
b.We fail to reject the claim that the proportion of dental procedures that are extractions
is 0.16 when the proportion is actually 0.16.
c.We reject the claim that the proportion of dental procedures that are extractions is 0.16
when the proportion is actually 0.16.
d.We fail to reject the claim that the proportion of dental procedures that are extractions
is 0.16 when the proportion is actually different from 0.16.

35. Larger values of α have the disadvantage of increasing the probability of making a
_____. a. Type I error
b.
Type II error
c.
random sampling error
d.
normal probability error

36. The average number of hours for a random sample of mail order pharmacists from
company A was 50.1 hours last year. It is believed that changes to medical insurance have led
to a reduction in the average work week. To test the validity of this belief, the hypotheses are
_____. a. H0: u > 50.1, Ha: u < 50.1
b.
H0: u = 50.1, Ha: u = 50.1
c.
H0: u ≤ 50.1, Ha: u > 50.1
d.
H0: u ≥ 50.1, Ha: u < 50.1

37. The owners of a fast food restaurant have automatic drink dispensers to help fill orders
more quickly. When the 12 ounce button is pressed, they would like for exactly 12 ounces of
beverage to be dispensed. There is, however, some variation in this amount. The company
does not want the machine to systematically over fill or under fill the cups. Which of the
following gives the correct set of hypotheses?
a.
H0: u > 12, Ha: u < 12
 b.
H0: u = 12, Ha: u ≠ 12
c.
H0: u ≤ 12, Ha: u > 12
d.
H0: u ≥ 12, Ha: u < 12
38. A large manufacturing plant has analyzed the amount of time required to produce an
electrical part and determined that the times follow a normal distribution with mean time μ =
45 hours. The production manager has developed a new procedure for producing the part. He
believes that the new procedure will decrease the population mean amount of time required to
produce the part. After training a group of production line workers, a random sample of 25
parts will be selected and the average amount of time required to produce the parts will be
determined. If the switch is made to the new procedure, the cost to implement the new
procedure will be more than offset by the savings in manpower required to produce the parts.
Use the hypotheses: Ho: μ ≥ 45 hours and Ha: μ < 45 hours. Determine the p value of the test
statistic if the sample mean amount of time is = 43.118 hours with the sample standard
deviation s = 5.5 hours.
a. 0.04973
b.
0.04999
c.
0.95818
d.
0.04354

39. A large manufacturing plant has analyzed the amount of time required to produce an
electrical part and determined that the times follow a normal distribution with mean time μ =
45 hours. The production manager has developed a new procedure for producing the part. He
believes that the new procedure will decrease the population mean amount of time required to
produce the part. After training a group of production line workers, a random sample of 25
parts will be selected and the average amount of time required to produce them will be
determined. If the switch is made to the new procedure, the cost to implement the new
procedure will be more than offset by the savings in manpower required to produce the parts.
Use the hypotheses: H0: μ ≥ 45 hours and Ha: μ < 45 hours. If the sample mean amount of
time is = 43.118 hours with the sample standard deviation s = 5.5 hours, give the
appropriate conclusion, for α = 0.025.

a.
Do not reject H0, do not switch to the new procedure.
b.
Reject H0, switch to the new procedure.
c.
Reject H0, do not switch to the new procedure.
d.
Do not reject H0, switch to the new procedure.

40. A one-tailed test is a hypothesis test in which the rejection region is _____.
a. in both tails of the sampling distribution
b. in one tail of the sampling distribution
c. only in the lower tail of the sampling distribution
d. only in the upper tail of the sampling distribution
41. Determine whether the alternative hypothesis is left-tailed, right-tailed, or two-tailed: H0:
μ = 11, Ha: μ > 11. a. Left-tailed
b.
Right-tailed
c.
Two-tailed
d.
There is not enough information to make a determination.

43. Statistical significance at the 0.01 level is _____ than significance at the 0.05 level.
a. more difficult to achieve
b. easier to achieve
c. less costly
d. less informative

44. You are _____ to commit a Type I error using the 0.05 level of significance than using
the 0.01 level of significance.
a. more likely
b. less likely
c. equally likely
d. twice as likely

45. Which statement is NOT true?

a. Rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true is a Type I error.
b. The probability of making a Type I error is symbolized by α.
c. Failing to reject the null hypothesis when it is false is a Type I error.
d. Type II error can occur for both one and two-tailed tests.

46. A student wants to determine if pennies are really fair when flipped, meaning equally
likely to land heads up or tails up. He flips a random sample of 50 pennies and finds that 28 of
them land heads up. If p denotes the true probability of a penny landing heads up when
flipped, what are the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses? a. H0: p ≥ 0.5, Ha: p < 0.5.
b. H0: p ≤ 0.5, Ha: p ≠ 0.5.

c. H0: p = 0.5, Ha: p ≠ 0.5.

d. H0: p ≥ 28, Ha: p < 28.