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Armco, a manufacturer of traffic light systems, found that under accelerated-life tests, 95 percent of the newly developed systems lasted three years before failing to change signals properly. a) If a city purchased four of these systems, what is the probability all four systems would operate properly for at least three years? b) Which rule of probability dose this illustrates? c) Using letters to represent the four systems, write an equation to show how you arrived at the answer to part a. 2. Flashner Marketing Research, Inc. specializes in providing assessments of the prospects for womens apparel shops in shopping malls. Al Flashner, president, reports that he assesses the prospects as good, fair, or poor. Records from previous assessments show that 60 percent of the time prospects. Were rated good, 30 percent of the time fair, and 10 percent of the time poor. Of those rated good 80 percent made a profit the first year; of those rated fair, 60 percent made a profit the first year; and of those rated poor, 20 percent made a profit the first year. Connies Apparel was given an original rating of poor. 3. With each purchase of a large pizza at Tonys Pizza, the customer receives a coupon that can be scratched to see if a prize will be awarded. The odds if winning a free soft drink is 1 in 10, and the odds of winning a free large pizza are 1 in 50. you plan to eat lunch tomorrow at Tonys what is the probability: a) That you will win either a large pizza of a soft drink. b) That you will not win a prize. c) That you will not win a prize on three consecutive visits to Tonys? d) That you will win at least one prize on one of your next three visits to Tonys? 4. There are four people being considered for the position of chief executive officer of Dalton Enterprises. Three of the applicants are over 60 years of age. Two are female, of which only one is over 60. a) What is the probability that a candidate is over 60 and female? b) Given that the candidate is male, what is the probability the person is female? c) Given that the person is over 60, what is the probability the person is female? 5. Horwage Electronics, Inc purchase TV picture tubes from four different suppliers. Tyson Wholesale supplies 20 percent of the tubes, Fuji Importers 30 percent, Kirkpatricks 25 percent, and Parts, Inc. 25 percent. Tyson wholesale tends to have the best quality, as only 3 percent of their tubes arrive defective. Fuji Importers tubes are 4 percent defective, Kirkpatricks 7 percent, and Parts, Inc. 6.5 percent defective. a) What is the overall percent defective? b) A defective picture tube was discovered in the latest shipment. What is the probability that it come from Tyson wholesale? c) What is the probability that the defective tube came from Fuji importers? Kirkpatricks? Form Parts, Inc.?

6. ABC Auto Insurance classifies drivers as good, medium, or poor risks. Drivers who apply to them for insurance fall into these groups in the proportions: 30%. 50% and 20% respectively. The probability a good driver will have an accident is 0.01, the probability a medium risk driver will have an accident is 0.03, and the probability a poor driver will have an accident is 0.10. The company sells Mr.Brophy an insurance policy and he has an accident. What is the probability Mr.Brophy is: a) A good driver? b) A medium risk driver? c) A poor driver? 7. A Tamiami shearing machine is producing 10 percent defective pieces, which is abnormally high. The quality control engineer has been checking the output by almost continuous sampling since the abnormal condition began. What is the probability that in a sample of 10 pieces: a) Exactly 5 will be defective? b) 5 or more will be defective? 8. An auditor for Health Maintenance Services of Georgia reports 40 percent of the policyholder 55 years or older submit a claim during the year. Fifteen policyholders are randomly selected for company records. a) How many of the policyholders would you expect to have filed a claim within the last year? b) What is the probability that ten of the selected policyholders submitted a claim last year? c) What is the probability that ten or more of the selected policyholders submitted a claim last year? d) What is the probability that more then ten the selected policyholders submitted a claim last year? 9. The bank of Hawaii reports that 7 percent of its credit card holders will default at some time in their life. The Hilo branch just mailed out 12 new cards today. a) How many of these new cardholders would you expect to default? What is the standard deviation? b) What is the like hood that none of the cardholders will default? c) What is the Lakewood at least one will default? 10. The sales of Lexus automobiles in the Detroit area follow a Poisson distribution with a mean of 3 per day. a) What is the probability that no Lexus is sold on a particular day? b) What is the probability that for five consecutive days at least one Lexus is sold? 11. Suppose 1.5 percent of the antennas on new Nokia cell phones are defective. For a random sample of 200 antennas is defective. a) None of the antennas is defective. b) Three or more of the antennas is defective.

12. The Sony Corporation produces an AM/FM Walkman that requires two AA batteries. The mean life of these batteries in this product is 35.0 hours. The distribution of the battery lives closely follows the normal probability distribution with a standard deviation of 5.5 hours. As a part of their testing program Sony tests samples of 25 batteries. a) What can say about the shape of the distribution of sample mean? b) What is the standard error of the distribution of the sample mean ? c) What fraction of the samples will have a mean useful life of more than 36 hours? d) What fraction of the sample will have a mean useful life greater than 34.5 hours? e) What fraction of the sample will have a mean useful life between 34.5 hours? 13. The Crossett Trucking Company claims that the mean weight of their delivery trucks when they are fully loaded is 6000 pounds and the standard deviation is 150 pounds. Assume that the population follows the normal distribution. Forty trucks are randomly selected and weighed. Within what limits will 95 percent of the sample means occur? 14. A study of long distance phone calls made from the corporate offices of a large company reveals the calls follow the normal distribution. The mean length of time per call was 4.2 minutes and the standard deviation was 0.60 minutes. a) What fraction of the calls last between 4.2 and 5 minutes? b) What fraction of the calls last more than 5 minutes? c) What fraction of the calls last between 5 and 6 minutes? d) What fraction of the calls last between 4 and 6 minutes? e) As part of her report to the president, the Director of Communication would like to report the length of the longest (in duration) 4 percent of the calls. What is this time? 15. Shaver Manufacturing, Inc. offers dental insurance to its employees. A recent study by the Human Resource Director shows the annual cost per employee per year followed the normal distribution, with a mean of $1,280 and a standard deviation $420 per year. a) What fraction of the employees cost more than $1,500 per year for dental expenses? b) What fraction of the employees cost between $1,500 and $2,000 per year? c) Estimate the percent that did not have any dental expenses. d) What was the cost for the 10 percent of employees that incurred the highest dental expenses? 16. Management at Gordon Electronics is considering adopting a bonus system to increase production. One suggestion is to pay a bonus on the highest 5 percent of production based on the past experience. Past records indicate weekly production follows the normal distribution. The mean of this distribution is 4,000 units per week and the standard deviation is 60 units per week. If the bonus is paid on the upper 5 percent of production, the bonus will be paid on how many units or more?

17. Most four-year automobile leases allow up to 60,000miles. If the lessee goes beyond this amount, a penalty of 10 cents per mile is added to the lease cost. Suppose the distribution of miles driven on four-year leases follows the normal distribution. The mean is 52,000 miles and the standard deviation is 5,000 miles. a) What percent of the leases will yield a penalty because of excess mileage? b) If the automobile company wanted to change, the terms of the lease so that 25 percent of the leases went over the limit, where should the new upper limit be set? c) One definition of a low mileage car is one that is four years old and has been driven less than 45,000 miles. What percent of the cars returned are considered low-mileage? 18. The price of shares of Bank of Florida at the end of trading each day for the last year followed the normal distribution. Assume there were 240 trading days in the year. The mean price was $42.00 per share and the standard deviation was $2.25 per share. a) What percent of the days was the price over $45.00? How many days would you estimate? b) What percent of the days was the price between $38.00 and $40.00? c) What was the stocks price on the highest 15 days of the year? 19. The annual sales of romance novels follow the normal distribution. However, the mean and the standard deviation are unknown. Forty percent of the time sales are more than 470,000, and 10 percent of the time sales are more than 500,000. What are the mean and the standard deviation? 20. A random sample of 85 group leaders, supervisors, and similar personnel at General Motors revealed that, on the average, they spent 6.5 years on the job before being promoted. The standard deviation of the sample was 1.7 years. Construct a 95 percent confidence interval. 21. A recent study of 50 self-service gasoline stations in the Greater Cincinnati-North Kentucky metropolitan area revealed that the mean price of unleaded gas was $1.179 per gallon. The sample standard deviation was $0.03 per gallon. a) Determine a 99 percent confidence interval for the population mean price. b) Would it be reasonable to conclude that the population mean was $1.20? Why or why not? 22. A recent study by the American Automobile Dealers Association revealed the mean amount of profit per car sold for a sample of 20 dealers was $290, with a standard deviation of $125. Develop a 95 percent confidence interval for the population mean. 23. The First National Bank of Wilson has 650 checking account customers. A recent sample of 50 of these customers showed 26 to have a Visa card with the bank.

Construct the 99 percent confidence interval for the proportion of checking account customers who have a Visa card with the bank. 24. You are to conduct a sample survey to determine the mean family income in a rural area of central Florida. The question is how many families should be sampled? In a pilot sample of 10 families, the standard deviation of the sample was $500. The sponsor of the survey wants you to use the 95 percent confidence level. The estimate is to be within $100. How many families should be interviewed? 25. A sample of 352 subscribers to Wired magazine shows the mean time spent using the Internet is 13.4 hours per week, with a sample standard deviation of 6.8 hours. Find the 95 percent confidence interval for the mean time Wired subscribers spend on the Internet. 26. Mr. T has just purchased a computer program that claims to pick stocks that will increase in price in the next week with an 85% accuracy rate. On how many stocks should Mr. T test this program in order to be 98 percent certain that the percent of stocks that do infect go up in the next week is within + 0.05 of the sample population? 27. For a year and half, sales have been falling consistently in all 1500 franchies of a fast-food chain. A consulting firm had determined that 30 percent of a sample of 95 indicate clear signs of mismanagement. Construct a 98 percent confidence interval for this proportion. 28. Prior to an advertising campaign, 35% of a sample of 400 housewives used a certain product. After the campaign, 40% of a second sample of 400 housewives used the product. Did the campaign increase sale? Test st the 1% significance level. 29. A machine shop has some of its welders from a straight salary to piece work. To see if this resulted in a change in worker productivity, the foreman was asked to keep a record of one days output (number of pieces completed) for each employee. Using the data below, test at a significance level of 10% whether there are significant productivity differences with the two forms of compensation Compensation Output Salary 118 115 122 99 107 130 152 Price Work 115 126 113 105 138 102 108 30. If p denotes the probability of fuse working properly, the following producer is adopted to test the hypothesis H0 : p = 0.9 against the alternative H1 : p = 0.8. Inspect four and retain H0 if all are working properly. Calculate the probabilities of type I and II errors. At what level of significance is the test based? 31. 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 that the mean mileage for their trucks is 59,500 miles. Is Crossets experience different from that claimed by the manufacturer at the .05 significance level? 32. The MacBurger restaurant chain claims that the waiting time of sustomers for service is normally distributed, with a mean of 3 minutes and a standard deviation of 1 minute. The quality-assurance department found in a sample of 50 customers at the Warren Road MacBurger that the mean waiting time was 2.75 minutes. At the . 05 significance level, can we conclude that the mean waiting time is less than 3 minutes? 33. The records of Yellowstone truck reveal that the mean life of a set of spark plugs is 22,100 miles. The distribution of the life of the plugs is approximately normal. A spark plug manufacturer claimed that its piugs have a mean life in excess of 22,100 miles. The fleet owner purchased a large number of sets. A sample of 18 sets revealed that the mean life was 23,400 miles and the standard deviation was 1,500 miles. Is there enough evidence to substantiate the manufacturers claim at the .05 significance level? 34. Experience raising New Jersey Red chickens revealed the mean weight of the chickens at five months is 4.35 pounds. The weights follow the normal distribution. In an effort to increase their weight, a special additive is added it the chicken feed. The subsequent weights of a sample of five-month-old chickens were (in pounds): 4.41 4.37 4.33 4.35 4.30 4.39 4.36 4.38 4.40 4.39 35. 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 gradustes 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? 36. Chicken Delight claims that 90 percent of its orders are delivered within 10 minutes of the time the order is placed. A sample of 100 orders revealed that 82 were delivered within the promised time. At the .10 significance level, can we conclude that less than 90 percent of the orders are delivered in less than 10 minutes? 37. A new weight-watching company, weight Reducers International, advertises that those who join will lose, on the average, 10 pounds the first two weeks. A random sample of 50 people who joined the new weight reduction program revealed the mean loss to be 9 pounds with a standard deviation of 2.8 pounds. At the .05 level of significance, can we conclude that those joining Weight Reducers on average will lose less than 10 pounds? Determine the p-value. 38. A statewide real estate sales agency, Farm Associates, specializes in selling farm property in the state of Nebraska. Their records indicate that the mean selling time of farm property is 90 days. Because of recent drought conditions, they believe the

the mean selling time is now greater than 90 days. A statewide survey of 100 farms sold recently revealed that the mean selling time was 94 days, with a standrard deviation of 22 days. At the .10 significance level, has there been an increase in selling time? 39. The manufacturer of the Ososki motorcycle advertises that the cycle will average 87 miles per gallon of gasoline. A sample of eight bikes revealed the following mileage. 88 82 81 87 80 78 79 89 40. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reported that the prime rate for the large banks now exceeds 9 percent. A sample of eight small banks in the Midwest revealed the following prime rates (in percent): 10.1 9.3 9.2 10.2 9.3 9.6 9.4 8.8 41. Tina Dennis is the comptroller for Meek Industries. She believes that the current cash-flow problem at meek is due to the slow collection of accounts receivable. She believes that more than 60 percent of the accounts are in arrears more than three months. A random sample of 200 accounts showed that 140 were more than three months old. At the .01 significance level, can she conclude that more than 60 percent of the accounts are in arrears for more than three months? 42. Experience at the Crowder Travel Agency; indicate that 44 percent of those persons who wanted the agency to plan a vacation for them wanted to go Europe. During the most recent busy season, a sampling of 1,000 plans was selected at random from the files. It was found that 480 persons wanted to go to Europe on vacation. Has there been a significant shift upward in the percentage of persons who want to go to Europe? Test at the .05 significance level. 43. A cola-dispensing machine is set to dispense 9.00 ounces of cola per cup, with a standard deviation of 1.00 ounces. The manufacturer of the machine would like to set the control limit in such a way that for samples of 36, 5 percent of the sample means will be greater than the upper control limit, and 5 percent of the sample means will be less than lower control limit. a) At what value should the control limit be set? b) What is the probability that if the population mean shift to 8.9, this change will not be detected? c) What is the probability that if the if the population mean shift to 9.3, this change will not be detected? 44. The Gibbs Baby Food Company wishes to compare the weight gain of infants using their brand versus their competitors. A sample of 40 babies using the Gibbs products revealed a mean weight gain of 7.6 pounds first three month after birth. The standard deviation of the sample was 2.3 pounds. A sample of 55 babies using the competitors brand revealed mean increase in weight of 8.1 pounds, with a standard deviation of 2.9 pounds. At the .50 significance level, can we conclude that

babies using the Gibbs brand gained less weight? Compute the p-value and interpret it. 45. A financial analyst wants to compare the turnover rates, in percent, for shares of oil related stocks versus other stocks, such as GE and IBM. She selected 32 oil-related stocks and 49 other stocks. The mean turnover rate oil-related stocks is 31.4 percent and the standard deviation 5.1 percent. For the other stocks, the mean rate was computed to be 34.9 percent and the standard deviation 6.7 percent. Is there is significant difference in the turnover rates of the two types of stock? Use the 0.1 significance level. 46. Ms.Lisa Monnin is the budget director for the new process Company. She would like to compare the daily travel expenses for the sales staff and audit staff. She colleted the following sample information. Sales ($) 131 135 146 165 136 142 Audit ($) 130 102 129 143 149 120 139 At the .10 significance level, can she conclude that the mean daily expenses are greater for the sales staff than the audit staff? What is the p-value? 47. The Tampa Bay (Florida) Area Chamber of Commerce wanted to know whether the mean weekly salary of nurses was larger than that of schoolteachers. To investigate, they collected the following information on the amounts earned last week by a sample of school teachers and nurses. School teachers 84 82 82 87 78 80 80 82 82 83 84 832 ($) 5 6 7 5 4 9 2 0 9 0 2 Nurses ($) 84 89 82 77 85 85 82 82 1 0 1 1 0 9 5 9 Is it reasonable to conclude that mean weekly salary of nurses is higher? Use the .01 significance level. What is the p-value? 48. The Roper organization conducted identical surveys in 1990 and 2000. One question asked women was, Are most men basically kind, gentle, and thoughtful? The 1990 survey revealed that, of the 3,000 women surveyed, 2,010 said that they were. In 2000, 1,530 of the 3,000 surveyed thought that men were kind, gentle, and thoughtful. At the 0.05 level, can we conclude that women think less kind, gentle, and thougthful in 2000 compared with 1990? 49. The management of Discount Furniture, a chain of discount furniture stores in the Northeast, designed an incentive plan for salespeople. To evaluate this innovative plan, 12 sales-people were selected at random, and their weekly incomes before and after the plan were recorded. Salesperson Before After Sid Mahore $320 $340 Carot Quick 290 285

Tom Jackson 421 475 Andy Jones 510 510 Jean Sloan 210 210 Jack Walker 402 500 Peg Mansuso 625 631 Anita Loma 560 560 John Cuso 360 365 Carl Utz 431 431 A.S. Kushner 506 525 Fern Lawton 505 619 Was there a significant increase in the typical salespersons weekly income due to the innovative incentive plan? Use the 0.05 significance level. Estimate the pvalue, and interpret it. 50. Harry Hutchings is the owner of Hutchings Weightlifting Clinic. He claims that by taking a special vitamin, a weightlifter can increase his strength. Ten student athletes are randomly selected and given a test of strength using the standard bench press. After two weeks of regular training, supplemented with the vitamin, they are tested again. The results are shown below. Weight Name Before After Evie Gorky 190 196 Bob Mack 250 240 Lou Brandon 345 345 Karl Unger 210 212 Sue Koontz 114 113 Pat OLeary 126 129 Kim Dennis 186 189 Connie Kaye 116 115 Tom Dama 196 194 Maxine Sims 125 124 At the 0.01 level of sigificance, can we conclude the special vitamin increased the Strength of the student athletes? 51. The federal government recently granted funds for a special program designed to reduce crime in high-crime areas. A study of the results of the program in eight high-crime areas of Miami, FL, yielded the following results. Number of crime by Area A B C D E F G H Before 14 7 4 5 17 12 8 9 After 2 7 3 6 8 13 3 5 Has there been a decrease in the number of crimes since the inauguration of the program? Use the .01 significance level. Estimate the p-value.

52. A coffee manufacturer is interested in whether the mean daily consumption of regular coffee drinkers is less than that of decaffeinated-coffee drinkers. A random sample of 50 days regular-drinkers showed a mean of 4.35 cups per day, with a standard deviation of 1.20 cups per day. A sample of decaffeinated-coffee drinkers showed a mean of 5.84 cups per day, with a standard deviation of 1.36 cups per day. Use the .01 significance level. Compute the p-value. 53. The Engineering Department at Sims Software, Inc., recently developed two chemical solution designed to increase the usable life of computer disks. A sample of disks treated with the first solution lasted 86, 78, 66, 83, 84, 81, 84, 109, 65, and 102 hours. Those treated with the second solution lasted 91, 71, 75, 76, 87, 79, 73, 76, 79, 78, 87, 90, 76, and 72 hours. At the .10 significance level, can we conclude that there is difference in the length of time the two types of treatment lasted? 54. The Commercial Bank and Trust Company is studying the use of its automatic teller machine (ATMs). Of particular interest is whether young adults (under 25 years) use the machines more than senior citizens do. To investigation further, samples of customers under 25 years of age and customers over 60 years of age were selected. The number of ATM transactions last month was determined for each selected individual, and the results are shown below. At the .01 significance level, can bank management conclude that younger customers use the ATMs more? Under 25 Over 60 10 4 10 8 11 7 15 7 7 4 10 5 9 1 7 4 10 5

55. The manufacturing of a compact disc player wanted to know whether a 10 percent reduction in price is enough to increase the sales of their product. To investigate, the owner randomly selected eight outlets and sold the disc player at the reduced price. At seven randomly selected outlets, the disc player was sold at the regular price. Reported below is the number of units sold last month at the sampled outlets. At the 0.01 significance level, can the manufacturer conclude that the price reduction resulted in an increase in sales? Regular Price 138 121 88 115 141 125 96 Reduced Price 128 134 152 135 114 106 112 120 56. A stockbroker at the Critical Security reported that the mean rate of return on a sample of 10 oil stocks was 12.6 percent with a standard deviation of 3.9 percent. The mean rate of return on a sample of eight utility stocks was 10.9 percent with a standard deviation of 3.5 percent. At the 0.05 significance level, can we conclude that there is more variation in the oil stocks? 57. 60% of T.V. viewers watch a certain programmed. What is the probability of more than half of those selected in a sample of 5 will be watching a specific programmed.

58. The output of a production process is 90% perfect the items which comprise the remainder can not be detected without destroying them through testing 15 items are drawn from a days production of 1,00,000 units and sold to a dealer what is the probability that the lot sold will contain 12 or less perfect units. 59. A Hungry Giant was starting post a football field and he saw 12 football players in red uniform, 11 in white, one large dog, 6 officials and a referee. He stooped the 30 people together. The dog escaped and randomly selected. He knows that officials are tough to cat. He knew that he could not eat. What is probability that he ate more than one official? 60. A secretary claims that she averages only one error per page. A sample page is selected at random and 5 errors are found. If her claims correct what is the probability of 5 errors in one page? 61. A Life Insurance Company found that the probability of a person in the age-group 40-50 dying during a year due to a rare disease is 0.00001. If the company has 1 lacks policy holders in this age group what is the probability that they must pay-off 4 or more claims because of death from this case. 62. Trains on a part line run uniformly every half an hour between mid-night and 6 in the morning. What is the probability that a man entering the station at a random time during this period. Will have to wait at least 20 minutes? 63. A large no. of job applicant takes an aptitude test given by a company. Following normal distribution with arithmetic mean 80 and standard deviation is 4. a. b. c. d. What proportions of applicants have score between 80-84? What proportions of applicants have score between 75-83? What proportions of applicants have score between 75-83? What % of score exceeds 85?

64. A Systems Company is fades with the problem of reducing the clerical staff. It is decided that the less efficient workers will be the let go. The distribution of average type speed is judged to be normal. All types < 46 words per minutes will be laid off. If the company employee 200 empl whose overall average speed = 52 w.p.m with standard deviation = 8w.p.m. a. How many workers will be laid off? b. Suppose the management decided to reduce the typing staff by 20 people what would be the minimum speed of the typist retired? 65. The probability of a defective item is 0.2. if we take a sample of 400 items from a large lot a. What is the probability that 90 or more are defective? b. What is the probability that exactly 90 defective?

66. A Quality Control System selects a sample of 3items from a production line. If one or more is defective a second sample is taken also of size 3. If one or more of these sample is defective than production is stopped. Given that probability of defective item is 0.05. What is the probability (1) that the second sample is taken. (2) that the production line is stopped 67. A Political poll indicates that the probability of an average citizen voting for congress is 0.5, BJP is 0.3 and others 0.2. assuming these are accurate estimates a. What is the probability that of 10 randomly chosen citizens 5 will vote for Congress? b. None will vote for BJP. c. At least 9 vote for Congress. 68. If calls arrive at random an executive receives 5 calls on an average during an hour. What is the probability that d. He will receive fewer than 5 calls. e. No calls during a period of 12 minutes. f. He waits less than 6 minutes for the next call. 69. An Insurance Company makes yearly profit which is =150 and =90. it wishes to undertake as surely of existing policy and wants a sample large enough to reduce the error to know more than 1% of population mean. How large should the sample be? 70. For population of 120 for a =7.5 and standard deviation = 1.5. what is the standard error for a sample size of 9,49,25. 71. The average life of TV Tubes is known to be 20,000 hours with a standard deviation of 800 hours. What is the probability that a sample of 33 tubes will have a mean life of more than 23,000 hours? 72. An investigation should be started for mean duration of unemployment these are 1000 people registered with employment exchange. A random sample of 100 is taken which he mean of 87 & variance of 256 days and interval estimate for mean duration of unemployment was made as 8714. g. How confident can on be on estimate? h. How large a sample would be necessary to give 95% confidence? 73. A sample of size 15 had a mean of 56 & standard deviation 12. construct a 95% confidence interval for the popn mean [The popn is normal] 74. In an industry of 40 firms a survey of 10 firms show that the mean no.of injuries per 1000 man-hours was 2.35 with std.dev of 0.5. Calculate 95% confidence interval for mean no.of injuries for all firms.

75. By randomly surveying 49 of fortune 500 companies a consultant discovered 80% displayed policies similar to what is taught in B-schools. Give a 96% can.int for the proportion of companies employing B-school techniques. 76. A manufacturer has specified a mean of 12 mm while ordering ball bearings. A random sample of 121 brags from a shipment had a mean dia of 12.05 mm with a std.dev of 0.33 mm and at a 5% level of significance should the lot be accepted. 77. A manager is concerned about the long time spent by the workers in the canteen. He wants to know if the employees are spending more than 20 min. as an average. A sample of 49 workers has a mean of 22 minutes and std.dev of 10.5 minutes. Provide a statistical answer for managers problem. (Assuming a levels of significance at 5% and 1%) 78. Electric Motors for washing machines are known to have an expected life of 2000hrs. if a sample of 100 of a new model of a motor has a mean life of 2500hrs and a std.dev of 1600. Can we conclude with 95% confidence that the new model is more reliable?