Additional test problems as donated by your fellow students.

I am shamelessly taking their work and making a question bank out of it and not giving specific credit
for the names. However, I am grateful and will award the contributors 10 points on TestIV rather than
give them fame and fortunes they are due. (minor editing could have occured)

** I used a spreadsheet program (open office calc) to verify (and sometimes correct) the answers – if
your answers are close, you are doing well, but the spreadsheet affords a greater degree of accuracy in
calculations)
1. A survey was conducted in 2009. It asked 60 college athletes “In the last year, how many
energy drinks did you consume: either all the way or just portion?” The results indicated that
the sample mean was 1440.5 while the sample standard deviation was 1650.6. Construct a 98%
confidence interval for the mean number of energy drinks consumed and interpret this result.
ANS (1440.5 +/- 567.2)

2. In a poll conducted in January 2006, 902 out of 1015 randomly selected marines had stated that
they had deployed to Iraq at least once. Construct a 99% confidence interval for this proportion
after you verify the conditions required for using a confidence interval in this circumstance
ANS np(1-p)>10 (yes)
.8887 +/- .0254

3. The maximum daily protein intake recommended is 0.8 grams / lb of body weight. Therefore, a
bodybuilder who weighs 150 lbs should consume 120 grams of protein. A random sample of 40
bodybuilders who weight 150 lbs was obtained and it was found that they consume an average
of 160 grams of protein per day. The sample standard deviation was 62.3 grams of protein. Test
the claim that these bodybuilders are consuming more than the adequate amount of protein at
the alpha = .05 level of significance.
ANS t = 4.06 > 1.685 → reject Ho

4. A Baseball coach conducts a poll to estimate the percentage of players who judge that using
batting cages makes them better hitters. What sample size should be obtained if he wishes the
estimate to be within 3 percentage points with a 95% degree of confidence if
1. He uses a prior estimate of .68
2. he does not use a prior estimate
ANS 929, 1068

5. A math tutor is coaching a student to take the Math Accuplacer test at CNM. The student takes
pop quizzes on different days during the coaching session and wants to know if he is ready to
take the placement exam. The tutor will judge him to be ready if his true average is more than
7.
1. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the quizzes and make the determination if this
student is ready to take the accuplacer. Summarizing this data shows that the sample mean
is 6.5 with a sample standard deviation of 2.3.
2. Construct a 95% confidence interval if the sample size is raised to 45 (assume the sample
mean and standard deviation remain unchanged).
ANS (1) 6.5 +/- .8588 (2) 6.5 +/- .6910
 6. A student would like to interview all of the students in Anatomy and Physiology II to see what
proportion of them are going into nursing. What sample size should be obtained if the student
wants to know this number within 3% of the true proportion with a 95% degree of accuracy?
(hint: there is no prior estimate for p_hat)
ANS n = 1066

7. A student takes 20 minutes on her drive home from CNM. A friend showed her a shortcut so
the drive home could be a little faster. The student timed her new route over the next 2 months
and randomly chose 35 of those times to see if this new route was indeed faster. The statistics
for the new route were a sample mean of 18.7 minutes with a standard deviation of 2.1 minutes.
Is there sufficient evidence to conclude that this new route is faster than the old route at a .05
level of significance?
ANS t = -3.66 < -1.691 → reject Ho

8. At CNM, the ratio of men and women is 1-1 (meaning 50% each). In a psychology class, there
are 20 women and 30 men. Does this sample provide sufficient evidence at the .01 level of
significance to state that the ratio of men in the psychology class is different from that of the
general population? (are the assumptions for using Z fulfilled?)
ANS z = 1.41 < 2.578 → do not reject Ho ...yes np(1-p) > 10

9. To follow a certain diet plan, you have to consume 5000 mg of Hydradiet drink daily. GNC has
decided to test this product to see if they can sell it without too many complaints. GNC tested 40 men
ages 20-25 years old and had them record the amount of diet drink consumed over the course of a
week. The men recorded an average of 4,450 mg consumed with a sample standard deviation of 242
mg. Test the claim that the men had consumed the appropriate amount of Hyrdadiet drink at the alpha
= .05 level of significance.
ANS : -14.38 < -1.68 do not reject Ho

10. To gain weight for a wrestling competition, athletes are encouraged to eat more than 3000
calories per day. The coach at a local high school weighed 27 student wrestlers who needed to gain
weight for an upcoming competition. Each student recorded their food intake over the course of a
week and the coach randomly chose 27 days from this sample to check calorie intake. From the data
collected, the coach determined the sample mean to be 3091 calories with a sample standard deviation
of 312 calories. Are the students eating enough calories? (test at the alpha = .025 level of significance)
ANS 1.51 < 2.051 reject Ho, the students are eating enough calories
 11. A surveyor is interested in conducting a poll to estimate the percentage of lesbians who wish to get
married. What size sample should be obtained if she wishes to predict this proportion within 2.5
percentage points with 90% accuracy? (assume there is no prior estimate)
ANS 1083

12. The following data represent the amount of time, in minutes, it takes a sample of 10 women to
get ready to leave for work / school in the morning.
34 65 17 76 32
21 46 33 67 52
Construct a 90% confidence interval for the mean number of minutes it takes for a woman to get ready
to leave for work / school in the morning.
44.3 +/- 11.73