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Unit IV Problems On Two Populations

The document presents six statistical problems involving hypothesis testing for means, variances, and proportions between two populations. It includes scenarios such as comparing exam grades of two classes, evaluating abrasive wear of materials, polling voter preferences, assessing variability in class performance, analyzing worker-hour losses before and after a safety program, and testing proportions of support for a proposal among men and women. Each problem specifies a significance level of 0.05 for testing the respective hypotheses.

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Unit IV Problems On Two Populations

The document presents six statistical problems involving hypothesis testing for means, variances, and proportions between two populations. It includes scenarios such as comparing exam grades of two classes, evaluating abrasive wear of materials, polling voter preferences, assessing variability in class performance, analyzing worker-hour losses before and after a safety program, and testing proportions of support for a proposal among men and women. Each problem specifies a significance level of 0.05 for testing the respective hypotheses.

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Problems on two population

Test for Mean, Variance and Proportion

1. An examination was given to two classes consisting of 40 and 50 students, respectively.


In the first class the mean grade was 74 with the standard deviation of 8, while in the
second class the mean grade was 78 with the standard deviation of 7. Is there a significant
difference between the performance of the two classes at a level of significance of 0.05?

2. An experiment was performed to compare the abrasive wear of two different laminated
materials. 12 pieces of material 1 were tested by exposing each piece to a machine
measuring wear. 10 pieces of material 2 were similarly tested. In each case, the depth of
the wear was observed. The samples of material 1 gave an average wear of 85 units with
the sample standard deviation of 4, while the samples of material 2 gave an average of 81
with the sample standard deviation of 5. Can we conclude at the 0.05 level of significance
that the abrasive wear of material 1 exceeds that of material 2 by more than two units?
Assume the populations to be approximately normal with equal variances.

3. A sample poll of 300 voters from district A and 200 voters from district B showed that
56% and 48% respectively were in favour of a given candidate. At a level of significance
of 0.05 test the hypothesis that

(a) there is a difference between the districts


(b) the candidate is preferred in district A.

4. An instructor has two classes, A and B in a particular subject. Class A has 16 students
while class B has 25 students. On the same examination, although there was no significant
difference in mean grades, class A had a standard deviation of 9 while class B had a
standard deviation of 12. Can we conclude at the 0.05 level of significance that the
variability of class B is greater than that of A?

5. The following are the average weekly losses of worker-hours due to accidents in 10 indus-
trial plants before and after a certain safety program was put into operation:

Before: 45 73 46 124 33 57 83 34 26 17
After: 36 60 44 119 35 51 77 29 24 11

Use the 0.05 level of significance to test whether the safety program is effective.

6. Random samples of 400 men and 600 women were asked whether they would like to have
a flyover near their residence. 200 men and 325 women were in favor of the proposal,
Test the hypothesis that proportions of men and women in favor of the proposal are same
against that they are not at 5% level of significance.

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