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The document outlines various hypothesis testing scenarios involving household income, tube life, employee numbers, defective parts, order claims, and television viewership. Each scenario specifies a null hypothesis and provides sample data to test these hypotheses at a 5% significance level, with some cases also considering 1% and 10% levels. The aim is to determine whether the claims made in each scenario can be statistically supported or rejected based on the provided data.

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The document outlines various hypothesis testing scenarios involving household income, tube life, employee numbers, defective parts, order claims, and television viewership. Each scenario specifies a null hypothesis and provides sample data to test these hypotheses at a 5% significance level, with some cases also considering 1% and 10% levels. The aim is to determine whether the claims made in each scenario can be statistically supported or rejected based on the provided data.

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AQ056-0-M Tutorial Hypothesis Testing

1. A representative of a community group informs the prospective developer of a shopping


center that the average income per household in the area is $25,000. Suppose that for the type
of area involved household income can be assumed to be approximately normally distributed
and that the standard deviation can be accepted as being equal to 2,000, based on an earlier
study. For a random sample of n = 15 household, the mean household income is found to be
= $24,000. Test the null hypothesis that µ = $25,000 by establishing critical limits of the
sample mean in terms of dollars, using the 5 percent level of significance.

2. The standard deviation of the tube life for a particular brand of ultraviolet tube is known to be
500 hr, and the operating life of the tubes is normally distributed. The manufacturer claims
that average tube life is at least 9,000 hr. Test this claim at the 5 percent level of significance
by designating it as the null hypothesis and given that for a sample of n = 15 tubes the mean
operating life was = 9050 hr.

3. For a sample of 50 firms taken from a particular industry the mean number of employees per
firm is 420.4 with a sample standard deviation of 55.7. There are a total of 380 firms in this
industry. Before the data were collected, it was hypothesized that the mean number of
employees per firm in this industry does not exceed 408 employees. Test this hypothesis at
the 5 percent level of significance.

4. It is hypothesized that no more than 5 percent of the parts being produced in a manufacturing
process are defective. For a random sample of n = 100 parts, 10 are found to be defective.
Test the null hypothesis at the 5 % level of significance.

5. A salesman claims that on the average he obtains orders from at least 30 percent of his
prospects. From a random sample of 100 prospects he is able to obtain 20 orders. Can his
claim be rejected at the (a) 5 % and (b) 1 % level of significance?

6. The sponsor of a television ‘special’ expected that at least 40 percent of the viewing audience
would watch the show in a particular metropolitan area. For a random sample of 100
households with television sets turned on, 30 are viewing the ‘special’. Can the sponsor’s
assumption that at least 40 percent of the households would watch the program be rejected at
the (a) 10 percent and (b) 5 percent level of significance?

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