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

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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

 

 

  1. a) What is the SE Mean for the sales from China? 
  1. 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.

 

  1. a) State the null and alternative hypothesis.
  1. b) Calculate the test Statistics
  1. c) What is the p-value of the test? 
  1. 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

 

 

A

 

B

C

Total

Accounting

 

 

 12

(12.960)

 8

 7

 

(7.830)

 

(6.210)

*

  Sales

         

 

 17

(16.800)

 10

 8

 

(10.150)

 

(8.050)

35

Marketing

 

 

 19

(18.240)

 11

 8

 

(**)

(8.740)

38

Total

 

48

29

23

100

 

Chi-sq =

 

0.0711 +

 

0.0037 +

 

0.1005 +

 

 

 

0.0024 +

 

               

0.0022 +

0.0003 +

 

0.0317 +

0.0000 +

***

                     


 = 0.2746

         

DF = ??, p-value = ???

 

  1. a) Carefully define the null and alternative hypotheses of the ?2 test of the above table.
  1. b) Find the missing values ‘*’, ‘**’, ‘***’ ??, ??? 
  1. c) What is the conclusion of this test? Give reasons for your answer. 

 

 

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