Discuss the below problems:
Q1. The manufacturer of the X-15 steel-belted radial truck tire claims that the mean mileage the tire can be driven before the tread wears out is 60,000 miles. The standard deviation of the mileage is 5,000 miles. The Crosset Truck Company bought 48 tires and found the mean mileage for their trucks is 59,5000 miles. Is Crosset's experience different from that claimed by the manufacturer at the .05 significance level?
Q2. A recent article in USA Today reported that a job awaits only one in three new college graduates. The major reasons given were an overabundance of college graduates and a weak economy. A survey of 200 recent graduates from your school revealed that 80 students had jobs. At the .02 significance level, can we conclude that a larger proportion of students at your school have jobs?
Q3. The Rocky Mountain district sales manager of Rath Publishing, Inc., a college textbook publishing company, claims that the sales representatives make an average of 40 sales calls per week on professors. Several reps say that this estimate is too low. To investigate, a random sample of 28 sales representatives reveals that the mean number of call made last week was 42. The standard deviation of the sample is 2.1 calls. Using the .05 significance level, can we conclude that the mean number of calls per salesperson per week is more than 40?
Q4. From past experience a television manufacturer found that 10 percent or less of its sets needed any type of repair in the first two years of operation. In a sample of 50 sets manufactured two years ago, 9 needed repairs. At the .05 significance level, has the percent of sets needing repair increased? Determine the p-value.
| Country |
Employment (in 1,000s) |
| Australia |
9184 |
| Austria |
3876 |
| Belgium |
4297 |
| Canada |
15209 |
| Czech Republic |
5175 |
| Denmark |
2822 |
| Finland |
2531 |
| France |
25613 |
| Germany |
39294 |
| Greece |
4249 |
| Hungary |
4048 |
| Iceland |
148 |
| Ireland |
1494 |
| Italy |
23385 |
| Japan |
67110 |
| Korea |
21188 |
| Luxembourg |
218 |
| Mexico |
34325 |
| Netherlands |
7516 |
| New Zealand |
1797 |
| Norway |
2246 |
| Poland |
17203 |
| Portugal |
4885 |
| Spain |
16159 |
| Sweden |
4310 |
| Switzerland |
3967 |
| Turkey |
22736 |
| United Kingdom |
28552 |
| United States |
135231 |