Second Assignment on “QT” – Home Assignment

(To be submitted on 27/9/19 – Friday)

1. Distinguish between Type 1 & Type 2 errors in hypothesis testing.

2. Distinguish between one-tailed test & two-tailed test in hypothesis testing.

3. A machine is designed to pack 200 ml of a medicine with SD of 5 ml. A

sample of 100 bottles when measured had a mean content of 201.3 ml. Test
whether the equipment is functioning properly with the significance of 5%.

4. The QA department of a company wants to check the life of electric bulbs

for bulk purchase of 10000 numbers. They bought 50 numbers of “Philips”
& “Eveready” each for the quality check since they are the market leaders. It
was found that Philips bulbs gave an average life of 1500 hours with a SD of
60 hours & Eveready gave an average life of 1512 hours with a SD of 80
hours. Is there a significant difference in the mean life of 2 brands at 99%
confidence level?

5. Two types of batteries A & B are tested for their length of life and following
are the results.

Sample size Mean Variance

A 10 500 100
B 10 560 121

Is there a significant difference in the 2 means?

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