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10. A mixture of pulverized fuel ash and Portland cement to be used for grouting should have a compressive strength of more than 1300 KN/m?. The mixture will not be used unless exper- imental evidence indicates conclusively that the strength specification has been met. Suppose compressive strength for specimens of this mixture is normally distributed with o = 60. Let p denote the true average compressive strength. a. What are the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses? b. Let X denote the sample average compressive strength for n = 20 randomly selected specimens. Consider the test procedure with test statistic X and rejection region X = 1331.26. What is the probability distribution of the test statistic when H,, is true? What is the probability of a type I error for the test procedure? ¢. What is the probability distribution of the test statistic when p = 1350? Using the test procedure of part (b), what is the probability that the mixture will be judged unsatisfactory when in fact u = 1350 (a type II error)? d. How would you change the test procedure of part (b) to obtain a test with significance level .05? What impact would this change have on the error probability of part (c)? e. Consider the standardized test statistic Z= X 1300)/(a/\V/n) = (X 1300)/13.42. What are the val- ues of Z corresponding to the rejection region of part (b)? 25. The desired percentage of SiO, in a certain type of alumi- nous cement is 5.5. To test whether the true average per- centage is 5.5 for a particular production facility, 16 inde- pendently obtained samples are analyzed. Suppose that the percentage of SiO, in a sample is normally distributed with o = .3 and that x = 5.25. a. Does this indicate conclusively that the true average per- centage differs from 5.5? Carry out the analysis using the sequence of steps suggested in the text. b. If the true average percentage is s = 5.6 and a level a = .01 test based on n = 16 is used, what is the probability of detecting this departure from H,?
37. A random sample of 150 recent donations at a certain blood bank reveals that 82 were type A blood. Does this suggest that the actual percentage of type A donations differs from 40%, the percentage of the population having type A blood? Carry out a test of the appropriate hypotheses using a sig- nificance level of .01. Would your conclusion have been dif- ferent if a significance level of .05 had been used? 49. Give as much information as you can about the P-value of a t test in each of the following situations: a. Upper-tailed test, df = 8, 1 = 2.0 b. Lower-tailed test, df = 11, 24 ¢. Two-tailed test, df = 15,1 =-1.6 d. Upper-tailed test, df = 19,71 = -4 e. Upper-tailed test, df = 5,7 = 5.0 f. Two-tailed test, df = 40,1 = —4.8 57. The times of first sprinkler activation for a series of tests with fire prevention sprinkler systems using an aqueous film-forming foam were (in sec) 27 41 22 27 23 35 30 33 24 27 28 22 24 (see “Use of AFFF in Sprinkler Systems,” Fire Technology, 1976: 5). The system has been designed so that true average activation time is at most 25 sec under such conditions. Does the data strongly contradict the validity of this design specification? Test the relevant hypotheses at significance level .05 using the P-value approach. 19. Suppose p, and p, are true mean stopping distances at 50 mph for cars of a certain type equipped with two different types of braking systems. Use the two-sample 7 test at sig- nificance level .01 to test Hy: w, — u, = —10 versus H,: i e <-10 for the following data: m = 6, x = 115.7, 5, =503,n=6,y =129.3,and 5, = 5.38.
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