Chapter 4: SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION

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Chapter 5: ESTIMATION

1) For each of 40 students in one county the number of days absent from school in the
previous year were counted, with the results shown in the frequency table:
Number of absent days 0 1 2 3 4 5

Number of students 24 7 5 2 1 1
Construct a 90%confidence interval for the average number of days absent from school
of all students in the county.

2) To determine the average height of seedlings in a nursery, a number of subtrees were

randomly measured. The results are as follows:

Height (cm) 16.5 – 17 17 – 17.5 17.5 – 18 18 – 18.5 18.5 – 19 19 – 19.5

Number of 3 5 11 12 6 3
subtrees

Assume that the heights of the subtrees are normally distributed and the first type subtrees

are at least 18 cm.

a) Construct the 90% confidence interval for the population mean of first type subtrees and

the population proportion of first type subtrees in the nursery.

b) To reduce the error in estimating the population proportion of first-class subtrees by half

and the 95% confidence level, how many more subtrees need to be investigated?

3) A survey about the number of hours participating in social networking sites in a day of

students at University X, we get the following data table:

Number of hours <1 1–2 2–3 3–4 4–5 ≥5

Number of 7 11 23 15 9 5
students

a) Find the 90% confidence interval for the population mean of time spent on social

networking sites by students of the whole university X.

b) Students who spend 4 hours or more on social networking sites are said to be "addicted"

to social networks. Construct a 97% confidence for the population proportion of students

who are "addicted" to social networks.

4) Weighing some fruits of a farm, we have the following results.

weight (g) Number of fruits
35 – 55 8
55 – 75 16
75 – 95 25
95 – 115 35
115 – 135 20
135 – 155 6
155 – 175 4
a) Construct the 90.106% confidence interval of the population mean of weights of fruits.

b) Fruits of weights smaller than 75 grams are second type. Find the 98% confidence

interval of population proportion of second type fruits of the farm.

c) Assuming the error in estimating population mean of weights of fruits is 5 g and a 95%

confidence level, how many fruits should be examined?

d) Find the 95% confidence interval of population mean of weights of second type fruits

in the farm.

5) The number of hours per day that a television set was operating was recorded for a
randomly selected collection of households, with the results shown in the following:
3.7; 4.7; 2.1; 3.0; 4.3; 2.5; 4.2; 8.2; 3.6; 3.8;
2.1; 1.3; 1.5; 3.9; 1.1; 2.2; 2.4; 2.8; 3.6; 2.5;
7.3; 4.2; 6.0; 3.0; 5.9; 4.4; 4.2; 3.8; 3.7; 5.6
Construct a 99% confidence interval for the mean number of hours that a television set is
in operation in all households.

Chapter 6: HYPOTHESIS TESTING

1) Surveying the self-study time (hours/week) of some students at university A, the

following table was obtained:

Self – study time 1–4 4–6 6–8 8 – 10 10 – 12 12 – 16
(hours/week)
Number of students 18 25 30 35 26 10

a) Construct the 95% confidence interval for the population mean of self-study time of

students at University A.

b) Is there evidence to support the claim: “the average self-study time of student at

University is at least 8 hours/week” at   5% ? using both the critical value approach and

the p-value approach.

c) Students with self-study hours of 10 hours/week or more are hard-working students.

Find the 99% confidence interval of population proportion of hard-working students at

University A.

d) Does this sample data support you to conclude that more than 20% of all students are
hard-working at   3%, using both the critical value approach and the p-value approach.
2) The number of trips to a grocery store per week was recorded for a randomly selected

collection of households, with the results shown in the table:

2 2 2 1 4 2 3 2 5 4

2 3 5 0 3 2 3 1 4 3

a) Construct a 95% confidence interval for the average number of trips to a grocery store
per week of all households.
b) At the 1% significance level, can it be assumed that the average number of trips to a
grocery store per week of all households is at least 3 or not?

3) The quality control department of a tire manufacturer randomly selects a number of

products from two production lines and records the results in the following table:
Durability (thousand km)
< 50 50 – 55 55 - 60 60 - 65 >= 65
Line A 7 13 30 20 10
Line B 10 15 40 9 6

a) Construct a 90% confidence interval for the difference in average durability of

products of two lines A and B.

b) At the 5% level of significance, can it be concluded that the average durability of

products between the two lines A and B is not different?

c) The director of the manufacturer declares that the manufacturer's products can be used

for at least 60,000 km. Is the statement reliable at the 5% significance level?

4) Researching the income of employees of two companies A and B, people conducted a

survey and obtained the following results: In Company A, there are 50 survey participants,

their average income is 1500 $ /month, the sample standard deviation is 138 $/month. In

Company B the corresponding figures are: 40; 1660$/month and 185 $/month.
a) At the 5% level of significance, can it be assumed that the average incomes of the

employees of two companies A and B are the same?

b) At the 3% significance level, can it be assumed that the average income of company A's

employees is not more than 1400$/month?

5) When treated with drug A, the cure rate is 80%. Changing to drug B to treat 110 people,

92 people recovered. With significance level  = 0.02 can it be said that drug B is more

effective than drug A?

6) Examining randomly products in two factories, we have the following data:

Number of defective
Factory Number of products tested
products
A 1000 20
B 900 30

a) Construct a 90% confidence interval for the difference in the proportions of defective

products between two factories A and B.

b) At the 5% significance level, can it be assumed that the percentages of defective

products of two factories A and B are the same?

7) Surveying the self-study time (hours/week) of students from Faculty A and Faculty B,

they randomly selected 100 students in each faculty and obtained the following table of

data:
self-study time 3 -4 4- 5 5- 6 6 - 7 7 - 8
Faculty A 12 13 46 23 6
Faculty B 9 21 50 16 4

a) Is it possible to assume that the average number of hours of self-study for students of

the two faculties are the same at the 1% significance level?

b) There is an opinion that the percentage of students in Faculty A who self-study for less

than 4 hours/week is more than of Faculty B’s. At the 5% level of significance, please

comment on that opinion.

Chapter 7: REGRESSION

1). Investigating the midterm exam scores (X) and the final exam scores (Y) in statistics of

some students at a university, the following results were obtained:

X 99 77 50 67 71 72 81 94 96
Y 99 82 66 68 78 34 47 85 99
a) Write down the equation of the regression line of Y on X. Interpret the meaning of the
gradient.
b) Test the fit of the model at 5% significance level.
c) Construct the 98% confidence interval of the final exam score of a student with a
midterm exam score of 75.

2) The demands for a product (Y) at the given prices (X) are as follows:

X ($ per unit) 2 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 3

Y (number products) 252 244 241 234 230 223

a) Write down the equation of the regression line of Y on X. Interpret the meaning of the
gradient.
b) Test the fit of the model at 1% significance level.
 c) Construct the 95% confidence interval of the demand for this item when the selling
price per unit is 2.1 $

Number of 125 26 25 24
customers
At the 5% level of significance, do you think the company's statement is acceptable?

5. The traffic police department of a city recorded the number of traffic accidents occurring
on the following dates:

Number of 0 1 2 3 4 5
accidents

Number of days 30 40 36 29 15 10
At 5% significance level, can we say that the number of traffic accidents per day has a
Poisson distribution?

6. The market research department of a company surveyed the selling price of a product
unit (X: thousand VND) and the number of products sold by the company (Y) in 8
localities and had the following data:

X 25 27 28 27 24 26 22 25
Y 210 180 170 190 220 180 230 220
d) Write down the equation of the regression line of Y on X. Interpret the meaning of the
gradient.
e) Test the fit of the model at 1% significance level.
f) Construct the 95% confidence interval of the number of products sold at the locality
selling the product with price 30, 000 VND per unit.