Chapter 11: Q.9 (page 654)
A teacher predict that the distribution of grades on the final exam will be and they are recorded in table 11.27
The actual distribution for a class of 20 is in table 11.28
Chapter 11: Q.9 (page 654)
A teacher predict that the distribution of grades on the final exam will be and they are recorded in table 11.27
The actual distribution for a class of 20 is in table 11.28
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Get started for freeThe marital status distribution of the U.S. male population, ages and older, is as shown in Table 11.35.
Martial Status | Percent | Frequency |
never married | 31.3 | |
married | 56.1 | |
widowed | 2.5 | |
divorced /separated | 10.1 |
A factory manager needs to understand how many products are defective versus how many are produced. The number of expected defects is listed in Table 11.5.
A random sample was taken to determine the actual number of defects. Table 11.6 shows the results of the survey.
State the null and alternative hypotheses needed to conduct a goodness-of-fit test, and state the degrees of freedom.
Use a solution sheet to solve the hypothesis test problem. Go to Appendix E for the chi-square solution sheet. Round expected frequency to two decimal places.
A manager of a sports club keeps information concerning the main sport in which members participate and their ages. To test whether there is a relationship between the age of a member and his or her choice of sport, members of the sports club are randomly selected. Conduct a test of independence.
Sport | ||||
racquetball | ||||
tennis | ||||
swimming |
a. Explain why a goodness-of-fit test and a test of independence are generally right-tailed tests.
b. If you did a left-tailed test, what would you be testing?
In 2007, the United States had 1.5 million homeschooled students, according to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics. In Table 11.56 you can see that parents decide to homeschool their children for different reasons, and some reasons are ranked by parents as more important than others. According to the survey results shown in the table, is the distribution of applicable reasons the same as the distribution of the most important reason? Provide your assessment at the
5% significance level. Did you expect the result you obtained?
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