Chapter 11: Q 55 (page 658)
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We use test for independence
Chapter 11: Q 55 (page 658)
We use test for independence
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According to Dan Lenard, an independent insurance agent in the Buffalo, N.Y. area, the following is a breakdown of the amount of life insurance purchased by males in the following age groups. He is interested in whether the age of the male and the amount of life insurance purchased are independent events. Conduct a test for independence.
Suppose an airline claims that its flights are consistently on time with an average delay of at most 15 minutes. It claims that the average delay is so consistent that the variance is no more than 150 minutes. Doubting the consistency part of the claim, a disgruntled traveler calculates the delays for his next 25 flights. The average delay for those 25 flights is 22 minutes with a standard deviation of 15 minutes.
How did you know to test the variance instead of the mean?
A company packages apples by weight. One of the weight grades is Class apples. Class apples have a mean weight of , and there is a maximum allowed weight tolerance of above or below the mean for apples in the same consumer package. A batch of apples is selected to be included in a Classapple package. Given the following apple weights of the batch, does the fruit comply with the Class grade weight tolerance requirements. Conduct an appropriate hypothesis test.
(a) at the significance level
(b) at the significance level Weights in selected apple batch (in grams): ; ; ; ;; ; ; ; 157 ; 171; 152; 161 ; 141; 166; 172;
If , the chi-square distribution has a shape that reminds us of the exponential.
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