North South University
Applied Statistics, BUS 173
Assignment
Summer 2024
Question 1: A survey was conducted on a total of 1000 adults where they were asked
which of a set of four types of foods (Pizza, Burger, Chicken fry, or Apple pie) they dislike
the most Suppose that the survey also included information on the gender of the
respondents as listed in the following table.
The food that is being disliked the most Male Female
Pizza 195 200
Burger 130 150
Chicken fry 141 105
Apple pie 31 48
Perform a hypothesis test to determine whether the food that is being disliked the most
and gender are “independent”. Use a 1% significance level.
Question 2: Consider a data set on the types of vehicles owned by households in New
York and Los Angeles. Using a 99.5% confidence interval, test a null hypothesis that the
distribution of households with regard to the types of vehicles is “similar” for the two
states.
New York Los Angeles
Sedan Car 95 50
Truck 70 35
SUV 85 65
Question 3: Muscletech, a renowned protein powder manufacturer claims that one cup
of their protein powder contains 11 grams of sugar. However, this proportion of sugar is
not uniform, so the amount of sugar varies from cup to cup. One cup of protein powder
was taken from each of the 24 randomly selected boxes. The sample variance of the sugar
measurements from these 24 cups was 1.47 grams. Assume that the distribution of sugar
content is approximately normal. Construct the 98% confidence intervals for the
population variance and standard deviation. Test at a 1% significance level whether the
variance of the sugar content per cup is greater than 1.0 grams.
Question 4: A clothing store chain is having a sale based on the use of a coupon. The
company is interested in knowing whether the wording of the coupon affects the number
of units of the product purchased by customers. The company created four coupons for
the same product, each with different wording. Four groups of 50 customers each were
selected at random. Group 1 received the first version of the coupon; Group 2
received the second version; and so on. The units of the product purchased by each
customer were recorded. The following ANOVA table contains some of the values from
the analysis.
Assume that the four populations are normally distributed with equal variances.
a. Find the missing values and complete the ANOVA table.
b. What are the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses for this analysis? Using α =
.05, what is your conclusion about the equality of population means for all four coupons?
Question 5: New York city is famous for its Pizza. The Newyork Times wants to compare
how promptly the 4 best pizza places in New York deliver. On six randomly chosen nights,
they ordered a large Margherita pizza from each pizza shop, then records the elapsed
time until the pizza is delivered. Assume that the delivery location is approximately the
same distance from the four pizza shops. The following table shows the times (in minutes)
for these deliveries. Assume that all the assumptions required to apply the one-way
ANOVA procedure hold true.
Patsy’s Lucali’s Joe’s Scarr’s
20 22.1 22.3 23.9
24 27 26 24.1
18.3 20.2 24 25.8
22 32 30.1 29
20.8 26 28 25
19 24.8 25.8 24.2
a. Using a 5% significance level, test the null hypothesis that the mean delivery time is the
same for each of the four pizza parlors.
b. Is it a Type I error or a Type II error that may have been committed in part a? Explain?
