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All probabilities should be written as %. Section A: Inferential Statistics (Chapters 7, 8) Problem#1. An engineer took a random sample of 28 new batteries. The sample mean life was 1200 hours with a standard deviation, S = 140 hours. (4) a) Find a point estimate of the population mean life of such batteries. Answer: (9) b) Compute a 95% confidence interval of the true mean cost of such batteries . Answer: (6) c) How much margin of error is associated with the above interval? Answer: 4) d) Can the mean life of all such batteries be 1250 hours ? Why/Why not?

          All probabilities should be written as %.
Section A: Inferential Statistics (Chapters 7, 8)
Problem#1. An engineer took a random sample of 28 new batteries. The sample
mean life was 1200 hours with a standard deviation, S = 140 hours.
(4) a) Find a point estimate of the population mean life of such batteries.
Answer:
(9) b) Compute a 95% confidence interval of the true mean cost of such batteries .
Answer:
(6) c) How much margin of error is associated with the above interval?
Answer:
4) d) Can the mean life of all such batteries be 1250 hours ? Why/Why not?
        
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All probabilities should be written as %.
Section A: Inferential Statistics (Chapters 7, 8)
Problem#1. An engineer took a random sample of 28 new batteries. The sample
mean life was 1200 hours with a standard deviation, S = 140 hours.
(4) a) Find a point estimate of the population mean life of such batteries.
Answer:
(9) b) Compute a 95% confidence interval of the true mean cost of such batteries .
Answer:
(6) c) How much margin of error is associated with the above interval?
Answer:
4) d) Can the mean life of all such batteries be 1250 hours ? Why/Why not?

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Section A: Inferential Statistics (Chapters 7, 8) Problem #1: An engineer took a random sample of 28 new batteries. The sample mean life was 1200 hours with a standard deviation, S = 140 hours. a) Find a point estimate of the population mean life of such batteries. Answer: b) Compute a 95% confidence interval of the true mean cost of such batteries. Answer: c) How much margin of error is associated with the above interval? Answer: d) Can the mean life of all such batteries be 1250 hours? Why/Why not?
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00:01 We have a distribution of batteries that have a standard deviation of 1 .25 hours, and we have 10 batteries selected, and we have a mean of 40 .5 hours from that sample.
00:11 And we want to know if we have evidence to show that the mean is actually greater than 40 hours.
00:17 And so we're doing a z test, and the z test because this standard deviation is known.
00:24 So the z value associated with this is the difference between the sample amine and the population, mean divided by the standard air.
00:33 And this is the z value that we get, and we're doing an upper tail test.
00:38 So that's one way is to find the p value, which is what we do in part b.
00:42 But since our alpha level is 0 .05, i looked up what z value has 5 % in the upper tail.
00:50 And this is our critical value.
00:52 And we can see that this test statistic is smaller.
00:55 It is not in the reject region.
00:58 This is where we reject the null, and this is where we fail to reject.
01:04 And so we fail to reject the null, so we don't have evidence to say that the mean is higher than 40.
01:10 Now, part b wanted to know what the p value was, and truthfully, i usually find the p value, and know and even look up the critical value, but in any case, the p value is about 10%.
01:21 And our alpha level is 0 .05, and this is greater than that level, so we would fail to reject the null if we had used the p value.
01:30 Now, the next question asked you to find the probability of failing to reject the null at a 5 % significance level if we have the actual mean being 39 hours.
01:44 And this is really finding the likelihood of a type 2 error or a beta error.
01:49 And so we want to find, well, where would we reject the null, fail to reject the null? and we know that the z value from the previous question for where we have cutoff point is when the z value is 1 .45, 1 .645...
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