1. You are testing the hypothesis = 0.

7 and rejected the null hypothesis, if the null hypothesis is

true did you make a correct decision, a type I error, or a type II error?

A. Correct decision
B. Type I error
C. Type II error
D. Not enough information

2. College students sleep an average of 7 hours per night with a standard deviation of 1.7 hours.
Sleep hours is a normally distributed random variable. Find the probability that a student sleeps
more than 4 hours.

A. 0.9519
B. 0.0481
C. 0.0388
D. 0.9612

3. If two confidence intervals are calculated on the same set of sample data, but we change the
level of confidence from 97% to 92%, which of the following will be true?

A. The 92% interval will be narrower.

B. The 92% interval will be wider.
C. The intervals will have the same width.
D. There is not enough information to answer this.

4. Which of the following would be the correct hypotheses to test the claim that the mean life of a
“C” battery is not more than 1400 hours?

A. H o :   1400, H a :   1400
B. H0 :   1400, H a :   1400
C. H 0 :   1400, H a :   1400
D. H 0 :   1400, H a :   1400

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5. Determine the minimum sample size to estimate the mean weight of Appalachian Black Bears to
within 2 lbs with 95% confidence. = 25

A. 601
B. 600
C. 10
D. 96
E. 97

6. The diameters of Red Delicious apples in a certain orchard have a mean of 2.63 in. and a
standard deviation of 0.25 in. A sample of size 100 is taken, what is the mean value for this
sampling distribution of sample means?

A. 2.63
B. 0.263
C. 100
D. 0.25

7. Test the hypothesis: H o :   60, vs H a :   60 at the 0.05 level of significance, when s = 4, n

= 35, and x  61.5 .

A. p = 0.9834, fail to reject Ho .

B. p = 0.0166, reject Ho .
C. p = 0.0133, reject Ho .
D. t = 2.219, fail to reject H o .
E. Data is not normal; do not test.

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8. Which of the following statements about the central limit theorem is NOT true?

A. When n is sufficiently large, the distribution of the sample mean is approximately normal.

B. The standard error is .
n
C. The distribution of the sample standard deviation is approximately normal.
D. The mean of the sampling distribution is equal to the mean of the population.

9. A random variable is normally distributed with = 200 and = 24. Which of the following is the
standard error of the sample mean, x , for a sample of size n = 36? Round to two decimal
places.

A. 0.67
B. 4
C. 1.5
D. 5.56
E. 33.33

10. If all other quantities remain the same, how does the indicated change affect the width of a
confidence interval? Increase the sample size from 49 to 55:

A. The interval will get narrower

B. The interval will stay the same
C. The interval will get wider

11. You randomly select 36 restaurants and measure the temperature of coffee sold at each. The
sample mean temperature is 162.0°F. If sample standard deviation of 10.0°F, which of the
following intervals is the correct 90% confidence interval for the true mean?

A. (159.18, 164.82)
B. (158.73, 165.27)
C. (158.62, 165.38)
D. (159.26,164.74)
E. Cannot satisfy conditions. Do not compute a confidence interval.

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12. An employment information service claims the mean annual pay for full-time workers without a
high school diploma is less than $19,100. The average annual pay for a random sample of 18
full-time non-high school graduates is $18146 with a standard deviation of $1300. Salaries for
people without high school diplomas are normally distributed. Based on this information, you
decide to

A. reject the null at a level of significance of 0.05

B. fail to reject the null at a level of significance of 0.05
C. reject the null at a level of significance of 0.01
D. Both A & C are correct
E. All of the above are correct.

13. Test the hypotheses H o :   100, H a :   100 at = 0.05, given that   12.2 and that a
random sample of size 17 produced a sample mean of 102.8. Which of the following is the
correct conclusion?

A. p = 0.1790, do not reject H0

B. p = 0.1720, reject H0
C. p = 0.1720, do not reject H0
D. p = 0.1790, reject H0
E. Cannot satisfy conditions.

14. What value is always located at the center of a confidence interval for  ?

A. 
B. X
C. 
D. E

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15. A restaurant association says the typical household in the U.S. spends an average of more than
$2600 per year eating out. An author of a national travel publication tests this claim and
calculated a p-value of 0.0215. What conclusion can this author make at the 0.05 level of
significance?

A. There is evidence to show the average amount spent is at most $2600.

B. There is not evidence to show the average amount spent is at most $2600.
C. There is evidence to show households spend more than an average of $2600.
D. There is not evidence to show households spend more than an average of $2600.

16. If 700 confidence intervals, each having a level of confidence of 95%, were computed for a
population mean , approximately how many of the intervals would be expected to contain ?

A. 665
B. 7.36
C. 70
D. 630
E. 35

17. The distribution of salaries at most companies is known to be skewed right. A random sample of
42 employee salaries is collected. The sampling distribution of the sample average is known to
be approximately normal. What idea allows us to know this?

A. The central limit theorem

B. The law of large numbers
C. Binomial distribution
D. The law of probability

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Use for problems 18 & 19.
Data from the Appalachian Bear Center:
In 2002 Katie Settlage performed a study to gain information on the Appalachian black bear
population in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She and a team of researchers
randomly sampled 29 black bears in the park and took measurements such as paw size, weight,
and shoulder height. The stem and leaf plot below if for shoulder height (in centimeters) of the
29 male bears found.

Key 4|9 = 49 cm.

4 |9
5 |7
6 |2348
7 |1122222333
8 |1234456
9 |0367
10 | 2
11 | 4

18. To test that the mean shoulder height of male bears in the park is 75 cm, which of the following
should be done?

A. Z test
B. T test
C. Neither of the tests, conditions cannot be satisfied.

19. Determine the 95% confidence interval for the mean shoulder height for all Appalachian black
bears.

A. (67.411, 88,52)
B. (72.599, 83.332)

20. Find P(26  x  35) for a random sample of size 46 with a mean of 30 and a standard deviation
of 5.

A. 0.6295
B. 1.0000
C. 0.1731
D. Cannot satisfy normality.

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21. The average amount spent on health care by U.S. citizens over age 18 is speculated to be more
than $1250 per year. A special interest group claims that this amount is inaccurate and hires an
independent third party to investigate the claim. The appropriate null and alternative
hypotheses, Ho and HA, for μ are

A. Ho : μ = 1250 and HA : μ  1250.

B. Ho : μ > 1250 and HA : μ < 1250.
C. Ho : μ < 1250 and HA: μ > 1250.
D. cannot be specified without knowing the size of the sample used.

22. In 2004, a team of researchers published a study of contaminants in farmed salmon. Random
samples of fish from many farms were collected and analyzed for 14 organic contaminants. One
of those contaminants is the insecticide mirex which is a carcinogen. It is known that
distributions of all contaminants are normal. One farm in particular had very high levels of
mirex. Summary statistics for the mirex concentrations in parts per million are:
X  0.0913 n  22   0.0495
Calculate the 95% confidence interval for the population mean level of mirex at this farm.

A. (0.0694, 0.1133)
B. (0.0706, 0.1120)
C. (0.0731, 0.1095)
D. Conditions cannot be met.

23. I have conducted a hypothesis test for H o :   80, vs H a :   80 and made the decision to
fail to reject the null hypothesis. What conclusion is associated with this decision?

A. There is not evidence to show   80 .

B. There is evidence to show   80 .
C. There is evidence to show   80 .
D. There is not evidence to show   80 .

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Use for problems 24 - 25.
The pH measurements of 15 water specimens from various randomly selected locations along a given
river basin are taken. PH levels are normally distributed with mean 8 and standard deviation 0.3.

24. What is the probability that the pH measurement of a randomly selected water specimen is less
than 8.2?

A. 1.2153
B. 0.2525
C. 0.7475
D. 0.0049

25. What is the probability that the sample mean is between 7.9 and 8.1?

A. 0.2611
B. 0.6997
C. 1.0000
D. 0.8033

26. A wildlife study is designed to test the mean weight of salmon caught by a fishing company to
determine if salmon levels have changed from previous years. Historically, the average daily
catch was 925 lbs of salmon each day. If a random sample of 38 vessels were selected on
different days and we found the sample mean this summer was 962 lbs and a sample standard
deviation of 101 lbs, is there evidence that the natural levels of salmon in the waters have
changed? Test at the α = 0.05 level.

A. T test: p-value = 0.0150. Reject Ho.

B. T test: p-value = 0.0299. Reject Ho.
C. Z test: p-value = 0.0239. Reject Ho.
D. Z test: p-value = 0.0120. Reject Ho.
E. Cannot meet the conditions of the test.