Math 360 Statistical Methods, Eastern Michigan University, Fall 2013 Quiz 4, Due Date: 12/11/2013

Name of the student_______________________________________ E#___________________ 1. A large company wants to estimate the unknown proportion, of times their mails are delivered on time," i.e., delivered within one business day. A random sample of 200 local deliveries showed that 174 deliveries were made "on-time. a) Find a point estimate of .

b) Find the standard deviation of your estimate in (a).

c) Find a 95% confidence interval for the unknown proportion of time the mails are delivered on time.

2. The manager of a large company wanted to compare two different sales techniques (Techniques I and II). After Technique I was used on 100 randomly selected customers, 28 of them made purchases. After Technique II was used on another 100 randomly selected customers, 46 of them made purchases. a) Find an estimate of the proportion of difference in two techniques.

b) Give a 90% confidence interval estimate for the difference of the two proportions.

3. A manufacturer of a certain type of plastic bag wanted to evaluate its breaking strength. A random sample of 12 of these bags had an average breaking strength of 10.25 pounds. It is known that breaking strength of plastic bag has a normal distribution with population standard deviation of 0.8 pounds. A researcher wants to test if the breaking strength of plastic bags are more than 10 pounds. a) Set up null and alternative hypotheses for this test.

b) Write out appropriate test statistic for this test and observed value of the test statistic.

c) Find the p-value for this test.

d) What is your conclusion about the test at 5% level of significance (i.e. We accept the null hypothesis at 5% level of significance.