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Hypothesis Testing- Home Work

To complete this assignment successfully, you should:

  1. Study the assignment carefully
  2. Use Excel to complete your assignments.
  3. Send the Excel spreadsheet as an attachment through WebMail.


§ Hypothesis Testing §

Assignments


Send to your instructor a single Excel file (including written answers) as e-mail an attachment using WebMail addressed to BA501@mail.cba.nau.edu and put "BA501 (last name) Assignment name and number" in the e-mail subject. Put the different exercise outputs on separate sheets in the Excel file. If you have any questions on this home work, please e-mail me with questions. Here is the Excel worksheet for this assignment. Use "save as" to save it to your computer or to a floppy.

 Exercise 1

Use Excel to solve this problem. Perform the hypothesis test for the mean of a normally distributed population, using the following information:

Data: 7.37, 7.36, 7.38, 7.35, 7.39, 7.34, 7.4, 7.33, 7.41, 7.32, 7.42, 7.31,7.43, 7.3, 7.44, 7.29, 7.45, 6.44, 8.3, 6.54, 8.2, 6.64, 8.1, 5.88, 8.86

Ho: m ³ 8.18

Ha: m < 8.18

a = 0.10

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Exercise 2

A university professor contends that students should study more than 30 hours a week to be make passing grades taking a 15 hour load. A random sample of 64 students who had 15 hour loads yielded a sample mean of 30.5 hours per week spent studying with a standard deviation of 2.1. Use Excel to solve these problems.

(a) Find the 95% confidence interval for the mean time a student spends per week studying. Give the three interpretations of the confidence interval.

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(b) Is there sufficient evidence to indicate that the mean time that a student spends per week studying is greater than 30 hours? Use a 0.05 significance level.

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Exercise 3

Marketing planning problems may require special computer programs that to help solve. For 36 different situations involving various marketing planning problems, the amount of time spent by a manager interacting with a particular special computer program is given below in units of hours. Use Excel to solve this problem.

1.3 1.5 1.9 1.7 0.8 1.2 1.4 0.7 0.9 1.3 1.2 1.6 0.8 0.7 1.1 1.4 0.8 1.1 1.4 1.2 1.2 1.8 1.3 1.2 0.5 0.2 1.7 0.8 1.8 0.8 1.1 0.8 0.9 1.4 0.9 1.2


(a) At the 0.05 significance level, can one conclude from the Excel output that the data support the belief that the mean time spent by the manager with a special computer program is not equal to one hour and 30 minutes?

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(b) If a significance level of 0.20 is used, can the question in part (a) be answered using the same computer printout? Why?

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(c) How does sample size indicate the use of the confidence interval with the normal distribution instead of the t distribution in part (a)?

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Exercise 4

A college entrance examination is believed to take 5 hours to finish. A random sample of 64 students taking the exam finished in an average of 4.71 hours with a sample standard deviation of 0.705 hours. Use the p-value criteria to determine if there is sufficient evidence to support the hypothesis that the mean time to finish differs from 5 hours.

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E-mail Dr. James V. Pinto at BA501@mail.cba.nau.edu
or call (928) 523-7356. Use WebMail for attachments.

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