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The document is a quiz for MTH 1111 focusing on hypothesis testing for a single proportion and a mean, including calculations for word length and M&M color distribution. It requires students to perform statistical tests, set up hypotheses, and interpret p-values based on given data. The quiz includes specific tasks related to calculating means, standard deviations, test statistics, and making conclusions based on significance levels.

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Quiz #7 ANSWER KEY

The document is a quiz for MTH 1111 focusing on hypothesis testing for a single proportion and a mean, including calculations for word length and M&M color distribution. It requires students to perform statistical tests, set up hypotheses, and interpret p-values based on given data. The quiz includes specific tasks related to calculating means, standard deviations, test statistics, and making conclusions based on significance levels.

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MTH 1111 Ch 18 Quiz #7 Hypothesis Testing for a Single Proportion and a Mean

Professor Bordogna

Name: __________________________________ Date: ____________ Circle one: 8 AM 10 AM

1. Textbook authors must be careful that the reading level of their book is appropriate for the target
audience. Some methods of assessing reading level require estimating the average word length.
We’ve randomly chosen 20 words from a randomly selected page in Intro Stats and counted the
number of letters in each word:
4, 5, 2, 11, 1, 5, 3, 8, 5, 4, 7, 2, 11, 4, 8, 10, 4, 5, 7, 6

Suppose that our editor was hoping that the book would have a mean word length of 6.5 letters.

a) Find the mean and standard deviation of the given sample of word length.

b) Does this sample indicate that the authors failed to meet this goal? We would like to test an
appropriate hypothesis. What type of test should you do?

c) Set up a right tail hypothesis test:

!! : $ = _________

!" : $ __ _______

d) Assume a significance level a = 0.05, we will perform a left or a right tail t-test to find the p-
value. If the p-value is greater than 0.05, we will fail to reject the null hypothesis and see no
reason not to believe this text has an average word length of 6.5 based on our sample. If the p-
value is less than 0.05, then it is statistically unlikely that the average work length is 6.5 based on
our sample and we would therefore reject the null hypothesis. Show your work:

p-value =. ___________. Therefore we should ______________________ the null hypothesis.


e) Show the sketch of the result of your t-test by copying it from your calculator. Show the t-
critical value and the area corresponding to the p-value.

2. According to the MARS M&M Company, Plain M&Ms has the following distribution: 25%
cyan blue, 25% orange, 12.5% green, 12.5% bright yellow, 12.5% red, 12.5% brown: I
have a bag with 250 M&Ms, and I count that 27 are red.

(: '
a) Find the test statistic ' ( = ________________

b) Based on your observation of M&Ms from this bag, decide on an alternative hypothesis using >
*+ < . Make your null and alternative hypothesis statement below:

-# : '# = _________

-$ : '# __ _______

c) Conduct a hypothesis Z-test for a proportion using your TI-84. Show your calculator keys.
Sketch the situation below from the sketch in your calculator. Show the z-critical value and the
area corresponding to the p-value.

d) Compare the p-value to a significance level a = 0.05 and make a concluding statement.

p-value =. ___________. Therefore we should ______________________ the null hypothesis.

3. Repeat #2 but assume you got 35 red M&Ms in your bag of 250.

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