WORKSHEET N0. 5.

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TEST ON ONE SAMPLE MEAN
Name: _________________________ Score:________

Course & Year: BSED-3 Math Date: 9-11-16

Use the SPSS software to calculate the inferential statistics of the following problems.

1. It has been suggested that abnormal human males tend to occur more in children born to older-than-average
parents. Suppose case histories of 20 abnormal males were obtained and the ages of the 20 mothers were

31 21 29 28 34 45 21 41 27 31

43 21 39 38 32 28 37 28 16 39

The mean age at which mothers in the general population give birth is 28.0 years. Does the sample give
sufficient evidence to support the claim that abnormal male children have older-than-average mothers? Use𝛼 = 0.05.

Fill in the tables below:

One-Sample Statistics

N Mean Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean

Age of their Mothers 20 31.4500 8.04903 1.79982

One-Sample Test

Test Value = 28

t df Sig. (2-tailed) Mean Difference 95% Confidence Interval of the

Difference

Lower Upper
Age of their Mothers 1.917 19 .070 3.45000 -.3171 7.2171

Interpretation (from the table):

The p value is 0.070 which is greater than 0.05. This indicates that there is no significant difference in terms of the
ages of the mothers from older-and-average of abnormal human males with the population age of 28.0. Thus, the age of
mothers when giving birth doesn’t have an effect to the normality or health of human males.
 2. In a large cherry orchard, the average yield has been 4.35 tons per acre for the last several years. A new fertilizer
was tested on 15 randomly selected 1-acre plots. The yields from these plots were as follows.
11.0 11.6 10.9 12.0 11.5 12.0 11.2
10.5 12.2 11.8 12.1 11.6 11.7 11.6
11.2 12.0 11.4 10.8 11.8 10.9 11.4

At the 0.05 level of significance, do we have sufficient evidence to claim that the new fertilizer was effective?

Fill-in the tables below:

One-Sample Statistics

N Mean Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean

Yields of the Plots 21 11.4857 .47464 .10358

One-Sample Test

Test Value = 4.35

t df Sig. (2-tailed) Mean Difference 95% Confidence Interval of the

Difference

Lower Upper

Yields of the Plots 68.894 20 .000 7.13571 6.9197 7.3518

Interpretation (from the table):

The p value is 0.000 which is less than 0.05. This indicates that there is a significant difference in the effect on the
yields of the plots of the new fertilizer. Since the mean yields from the old fertilizer of 4.35 is less than the mean yields
from the new fertilizer of 11.49.Thus, the new fertilizer is more effective and produces more yields than the old one.