REVISION EXERCISE

Consider the hypothesis test as follows:

H o :   1.5 versus H1 :   1.5
Output of the analysis is given in TABLE Q4.

TABLE Q4

n Mean 95% CI Test p – value

statistics
36 1.4975 [1.4942, 1.5008]? -1.5? 0.1336?

By assuming the standard deviation to be 0.01, find the missing values

in TABLE Q4 and draw your conclusion.
[7 marks]

b. A manufacturer of a new pain relief tablet would like to demonstrate that

his product works twice as fast as the competitor’s product. The
manufacturer would like to test:

H o : 1  0.52 versus H1 : 1  0.52

where and  are the mean relief time of the manufacturer’s product
and the competitor’s product, respectively. Assume that both population
variances are known.

i. Develop a procedure for testing the above hypotheses.

[7 marks]
ii. Other than the procedure in part (a)(i), develop two other testing
procedures that could be used to test the above hypotheses.
[6 marks]
2. a. Suppose that 100 litres of a new synthetic oil made by a certain
manufacturer lasted on the average 34910.4km with a standard
deviation of 20172km.

i. Is there evidence to support that the mean distance less than

35200km at the 0.05 level of significance?
ii. What is the P-value for this test? Comment.

b In a study designed to investigate whether certain detonators used with

explosives in coal mining meet the requirement that at least 90% will
ignite the explosive when charge. The study found that 174 of 200
detonators function properly.

i. Test the null hypothesis, p=0.90 against the alternative

hypothesis p  0.90 at the 0.05 level of significance.
ii. Find the P-value for this test and comment.
iii. Construct a 95% two-sided CI on the true proportion of
detonators. Explained how this CI can be used to test the
hypothesis in part (i).
3. As a quality engineer, you had inspected two types of machines, namely Machine A
and Machine B. The product from each of the machine is assumed to meet the
specification, that is, the mean diameter of the produced bolts is 35.5 mm. A random
sample is selected from each machine and its diameter is measured. The results are
shown in TABLE Q3.

TABLE Q3
Machine A 36 28 29 20 38
Machine B 34 41 35 47 49 46

Assume that the samples were collected from population of equal variances.

a. Your superior feels that Machine B does not meet the specification. Is there strong
evidence to indicate that this claim is true? Justify your answer.
[8 marks]
b. Carry out a test to decide if the mean diameter of bolts from Machine B is bigger
than the mean diameter of bolts produced by Machine A. Use 
[8 marks]
c. Construct a 95% confidence interval on the difference in means, 1   2 between
the two types of machine. Comment on your answer.
[4 marks]
4.An experiment was conducted to investigate how the corrosion properties of chilled cast
iron depend upon the chromium content of alloy. A collection of 12 samples of chilled cast
iron with 0.1% chromium content provided corrosion rates with sample mean of 2.462 and
a standard deviation of 0.315. Another collection of 13 samples of chilled cast iron with
0.2% of chromium content provided corrosion rates with a sample mean of 2.296 and
standard deviation equals 0.297.
(i) Conduct a hypothesis test to investigate if there is any evidence that the
chromium content has an effect on the corrosion rate of chilled cast iron.

(ii) Determine the 99% confidence interval for the difference between the
average corrosion rates of chilled cast iron at the two chromium contents.