In: Statistics and Probability
Question 1
a) A random sample of 41 glass sheets is obtained and their
thicknesses are measured.The sample mean is found to be 3.04 mm
with standard deviation 0.124 mm.Construct a 90% confidence
interval for the mean glass thickness.
b) The resilient moduli of clay mixture is found to be normally
distributed with mean . A sample of 10 clay mixture is selected and
the resilient moduli are measured as
follow:
19.6 19.4 19.9 19.3 20.1 19.0 19.5 19.4 20.3 19.7
Construct a 99% confidence interval for the mean resilient moduli
of clay mixture.
c) A company advertises that its electric motors provide an
efficiency that is at least 25% higher than the industry norm. A
consumer interest group ran an experiment with a
sample of 35 machines for which the increases in efficiency over
the industry norm had a sample mean of 22.3% and the sample
standard deviation of 8.72%. Perform a hypothesis testing at 5%
significance level to test whether the company’s claim is
false.