Chapter 9: Q .1. (page 563)
No homework? Mr. Tabor believes that less than of the students at his school completed their math homework last night. The math teachers inspect the homework assignments from a random sample of students at the school.
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Chapter 9: Q .1. (page 563)
No homework? Mr. Tabor believes that less than of the students at his school completed their math homework last night. The math teachers inspect the homework assignments from a random sample of students at the school.
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Don’t argue Refer to Exercises 2 and 12.
a. What conclusion would you make at the level?
b. Would your conclusion from part (a) change if a significance level was used
instead? Explain your reasoning.
Pressing pills A drug manufacturer forms tablets by compressing a granular material that contains the active ingredient and various fillers. The hardness of a sample from each batch of tablets produced is measured to control the compression process. The target value for the hardness is The hardness data for a random sample of 20 tablets from one large batch are

Is there convincing evidence at the level that the mean hardness of the tablets in this batch differs from the target value?
Clean water The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that safe
drinking water should contain at most mg/liter of copper, on average. A water supply company is testing water from a new source and collects water in small bottles at each ofrandomly selected locations. The company performs a test at the α=0.05 significance level ofversus , where μ is the
true mean copper content of the water from the new source.
a. Describe a Type I error and a Type II error in this setting.
b. Which type of error is more serious in this case? Justify your answer.
c. Based on your answer to part (b), do you agree with the company’s choice of ? Why or why not?
Restaurant power problems Refer to Exercises and
a. Explain one disadvantage of using instead of when
performing the test.
b. Explain one disadvantage of taking a random sample of people instead of people.
Flu vaccine Refer to Exercise. Of the adults who were given the vaccine, got the flu. Do these data provide convincing evidence to support the company’s claim?
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