A sports shop selects a random sample and records the sales of items made in China and those made in America. Country of Origin n Mean Std. Deviation China 50 22.5 9.75 America 33 33.15 11.6 a) What is the SE Mean for the sales from China? b) Calculate a 95% confidence interval for the mean sales amount made in America
A sports shop selects a random sample and records the sales of items made in China and those made in America.
Country of Origin |
n |
Mean |
Std. Deviation |
China |
50 |
22.5 |
9.75 |
America |
33 |
33.15 |
11.6 |
- a) What is the SE Mean for the sales from China?
- b) Calculate a 95% confidence interval for the mean sales amount made in America
Question 2
The probability that a rosebud blooms is p. In a random sample of 500 rosebuds, 240 of them bloomed.
With the data obtained in a random sample, a hypothesis test at the 1% level of significance is carried out to determine whether p is different from 0.45.
- a) State the null and alternative hypothesis.
- b) Calculate the test Statistics
- c) What is the p-value of the test?
- d) Supporting your answer, state the conclusion of the test
Question 3
Workers at a private business were given a grade (A, B, C) based on their yearly performance. The data were recorded along with the department to which they belong. The results obtained using MINITAB are shown below:
Expected counts are printed below observed counts |
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A
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B |
C |
Total |
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Accounting
|
12 (12.960) |
8 |
7 |
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(7.830)
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(6.210) |
* |
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Sales
|
17 (16.800) |
10 |
8 |
|
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(10.150)
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(8.050) |
35 |
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Marketing
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19 (18.240) |
11 |
8 |
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(**) |
(8.740) |
38 |
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Total
|
48 |
29 |
23 |
100 |
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Chi-sq = |
0.0711 + |
0.0037 + |
0.1005 + |
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0.0024 + |
0.0022 + |
0.0003 + |
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|
0.0317 + |
0.0000 + |
*** |
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= 0.2746
DF = ??, p-value = ???
- a) Carefully define the null and alternative hypotheses of the ?2 test of the above table.
- b) Find the missing values ‘*’, ‘**’, ‘***’ ??, ???
- c) What is the conclusion of this test? Give reasons for your answer.
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