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The document outlines an assignment for a research methods and statistics course at the National University of Science and Technology, due on May 4, 2025, totaling 50 marks. It includes seven statistical problems requiring hypothesis testing and analysis of data related to battery capacity, tyre life, professor ages, customer satisfaction, test score improvements, hospital bed occupancy, and educational levels by gender. Each question specifies the significance level for testing and the necessary statistical methods to be used.

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Assignment 2 Research - 033123 2

The document outlines an assignment for a research methods and statistics course at the National University of Science and Technology, due on May 4, 2025, totaling 50 marks. It includes seven statistical problems requiring hypothesis testing and analysis of data related to battery capacity, tyre life, professor ages, customer satisfaction, test score improvements, hospital bed occupancy, and educational levels by gender. Each question specifies the significance level for testing and the necessary statistical methods to be used.

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

RESEARCH METHODS AND STATISTICS

PST 1211

Assignment 2

Due date: Sunday 4 May 2025 Total marks: 50

Answer all questions


1. A manufacturer of electric batteries claims that the average capacity of a certain
type of battery that the company produces is at least 140 ampere-hours with a
standard deviation of 2.66 ampere-hours. An independent sample of 20
batteries gave a mean of 138.47 ampere-hour. Test at 5% significance level
that the average capacity has been overstated. [5]

2. A company manufacturing automobile tyres finds that tyre-life is normally


distributed with a mean of 40 000 km and a standard deviation of 3 000 km. It
is believed that a change in the production process will result in a better product
and the company has developed a new tyre. A sample of 100 new tyres has
been selected. The company has found that the mean life of these new tyres is
40 900 km. Can it be concluded that the new tyre is significantly better than the
old one, using the significant level of 0.01? [5]

3. The average age of 10 professors selected randomly in university A is 46.672


with a standard deviation of 8.53. The average age of 10 professors selected
randomly in university B is 47.531 with a standard deviation of 7.83. Does the
data indicate that university A has older professors than university B, on
average? Test at a 5% level of significance. [5]

4. To compare customer satisfaction levels of two competing cable television


companies 174 customers of Company 1 and 355 customers of Company 2

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were randomly selected and were asked to rate their cable companies on a
five-point scale, with 1 being least satisfied and 5 most satisfied. The survey
results are summarized below
𝑛1 = 174 𝑥̅1 = 3.51 𝑠1 = 0.51 𝑛2 = 355 𝑥̅2 = 3.24 𝑠2 = 0.52
Test at the 1% level of significance whether the data provide sufficient evidence
to conclude that Company 1 has a higher mean satisfaction rating than does
Company 2. [8]
5. Suppose that a random sample of 12 students were given a diagnostic test
before studying a particular module and then again after completing the
module. Test at 5% level of significance if there is improvement in test scores
from the data given below. [7]
Student 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Pre-module score 18 21 16 22 19 19 17 18 19 12 17 18

Post-module score 22 25 17 24 16 22 20 20 26 18 16 16

6. A health administrator wants to compare the number of unoccupied beds for


three hospitals in the same city. The administrator randomly selects 14 different
days from the records of each hospital and enters the number of unoccupied
beds for each day. Use the Kruskal-Wallis H test to determine whether the
median number of unoccupied beds differs. [10]

Hospital A 64 87 90 74 85
Hospital B 82 85 79 84
Hospital C 68 72 76 69 89

7. A random sample of 395 people were surveyed and each person was asked to
report the highest educational level they obtained. The data results are shown
in the table below. Test if gender and educational level are dependent at 5%
level of significance. [10]
High school Bachelors Masters PHD
Female 60 54 46 41
Male 40 44 53 57

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END OF EXAMINATION PAPER.

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