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Six Sigma
Assignment- Week 6
TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ
Number of questions: 15 Total mark: 15 X 1 = 15
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QUESTION 1:
A hypothesis is a claim (assumption) about the _______________
a. Population Parameter
b. Sample Statistic
c. Both of these
d. None of these

Correct Answer: a (Population parameter)

Detailed Solution:

A hypothesis is a claim (assumption) about the population parameter

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QUESTION 2:
Select the correct option-

a. The Null and Alternative Hypotheses are mutually exclusive

b. The Null and Alternative Hypotheses are collectively exhaustive
c. Both of these are correct statements
d. None of these are correct statements

Correct Answer:c

Detailed Solution:

The Null and Alternative Hypotheses are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive

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QUESTION 3:
Type II Error means

a. Rejects a true null hypothesis

b. Accepts a true null hypothesis
c. Fails to reject a false null hypothesis
d. None of the these

Correct Answer:c

Detailed Solution:

Type II Error means “Fails to reject a false null hypothesis”

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QUESTION 4:
A company claims that a box of cream contain 250 grams of cream. A random sample of 25
boxes showed the average to be = 253.5. The company has specified the sample standard
deviation to be 12 grams. Compute the test statistic value
a. 7.3
b. 1.46
c. 1.96
d. None of the these

Correct Answer:b

Detailed Solution:

X − µ 253.5 − 250
=Z = = 1.46
σ 12
n 25

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QUESTION 5:
For the previous question let at α = 0.05, the critical value of Z be 1.96. What should be the
decision of hypothesis testing?

a. Reject the null hypothesis

b. Failed to reject the null hypothesis
c. Can’t say
d. None of these

Correct Answer:b

Detailed Solution:

As the computed value of test statistic (1.46) is less than the critical value (1.96). The decision
will be failed to reject the null hypothesis

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QUESTION 6:
A school teacher claims that 6% of her students get more than 90 marks in her class. To test this
claim, a random sample of 500 students was tested out which 28 students have securedmore than
90 marks. Is her claim correct atα = .05 significance level (Critical Z value = ± 1.96
).____________

Hint (Yes or No)

Correct Answer:Yes

Detailed Solution:

ps − p 0.056 − 0.06
Z= = = −0.3766
p (1 − p ) 0.06(1 − 0.06)
n 500

As the computed value is in between ± 1.96, the decision is failed to reject the null hypothesis. This
means her claim is correct
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QUESTION 7:
The hypothesis

H 0 : µ1 − µ2 ≥ D0 and H1 : µ1 − µ2 < D0 are the examples of

a. Right tailed test

b. Left tailed test
c. Two-tailed test
d. All of these

Correct Answer:b

Detailed Solution:

H 0 : µ1 − µ2 ≥ D0 and H1 : µ1 − µ2 < D0 are the examples of left tailed test

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QUESTION 8:
In an experimentation the critical Z-statistic value is ±1.96 and the computed value is 1.24, The
decision of hypothesis testing is-

a. Reject the null hypothesis

b. Failed to reject the null hypothesis
c. Data insufficient
d. None of these

Correct Answer:b

Detailed Solution:

Failed to reject the null hypothesis

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QUESTION 9:
A manager of multi-cuisine restaurant in Delhi offering Chinese, South Indian and North Indian
food claims that customer satisfaction score for his restaurant is higher than the customer
satisfaction score for a competitor’s restaurant. The mean customer satisfaction score for 49
customers for his restaurant is 42.1 and the standard deviation is 4.8. The mean customer
satisfaction score for 44 of the competitor’s restaurant is 39.8 and the standard deviation is 5.4.
At α = 0.10, can the manager’s claim be supported? (The critical Z-statistic value is 1.28)

Hint (Yes or No)

Correct Answer:Yes

Detailed Solution:

H 0 : µ1 ≤ µ2
H1 : µ1 > µ2 (claim)

The test statistic value

( X 1 − X 2 ) − ( µ1 − µ2 ) (42.1 − 39.8) − 0
=Z = = 2.161 , which is greater than 1.28.
s12 s22 4.82 5.42
+ +
n1 n2 49 44

The decision is reject the H 0 . Hence, manager’s claim is correct.

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QUESTION 10:
To test if there is significant difference between the proportion of men and the proportion of
women who will go for higher studies after their graduation, we have collected following data

Sample Total number of students No of students who have opted for higher studies
1 80 men 42 men
2 70 Women 49 Women
What would be the result of hypothesis test at 0.05 level of significance? (The critical value of Z-
statistic is ± 1.96)
a. Reject the null hypothesis
b. Do not reject the null hypothesis
c. Can’t say
d. None of these

Correct Answer:a

Detailed Solution:

H 0 : ∏1 − ∏ 2 = 0
H1 : ∏1 − ∏ 2 ≠ 0

42
=
p1 = 0.525
80
49
p=
2 = 0.70
70

X 1 + X 2 42 + 49
=p = = 0.6067
n1 + n2 80 + 70

( p1 − p2 ) − (∏1 − ∏ 2 ) (0.525 − 0.70) − 0

Z= = = −2.189
1 1 1 1
p (1 − p )( + ) 0.6067(1 − 0.6067)( + )
n1 n2 80 70

The computed Z statistic value is less than the critical one. Thus, the decision is reject the null
hypothesis.

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QUESTION 11:
For σ 1 and σ 2 unknown, σ 12 = σ 22 and n1 or n2 < 30 (both population normal). The test statistic
used for hypothesis testing of μ1 – μ2 is-

a. Z-statistic
b. t-statistic
c. Both of these can be used
d. None of these are used

Correct Answer: b

Detailed Solution:

For σ 1 and σ 2 unknown, σ 12 = σ 22 and n1 or n2 < 30 (both population normal). The test statistic
used for hypothesis testing of μ1 – μ2 is- t-statistic.

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QUESTION 12:
You are a Quality Analyst at automobile manufacturing firm. You want to compare the quality of
bearings received from two vendors (Vendor 1 and Vendor 2). You collect the following data for
a CTQ (Critical to Quality) characteristic “Outer Diameter” of the bearing:
Vendor 1 Vendor 2
Number 21 25
Mean 3.27 2.53
Stddev 1.25 1.00
The computed F-statistic value is-
a. 1.25
b. 1.5625
c. 1
d. None of these

Correct Answer: b
Detailed Solution:
s12 1.252
= =
Fstat = 1.5625
s22 12

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QUESTION 13:
The coefficient of correlation ranges between

a. 0 and 1
b. -1 and 0
c. -1 and 1
d. 0 and 0.5

Correct Answer: c

Detailed Solution:

The coefficient of correlation ranges between -1 and 1

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QUESTION 14:
For the given data compute the value of r 2

SST 1800
SSE 300

a. 0.1667
b. 0.8333
c. 0.2
d. 6

Correct Answer:b

Detailed Solution:

Prioritization Matrices arranges data so that a large array of numbers can be easily seen and
comprehended

= SSR + SSE
SST

SSR = SST − SSE = 1800 − 300 = 1500

SSR 1500
=
r2 = = 0.8333
SST 1800

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QUESTION 15:
Which one of these is the assumption of regression line-

a. The relationship between independent variable anddependent variable is linear

b. Error values are statistically independent
c. Error values are normally distributed for any given value of independent variable
d. All of these

Correct Answer:d

Detailed Solution:

All of these are the assumptions of regression line

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