Question # 6.

82: A consumer product that has flourished in the last few years is
bottled natural spring water. Jon Thorne is the CEO of a company that sells natural
spring water. He has requested a report of the filling process of the 24-ounce (710milliliter) bottles to be sure that they are being properly filled. To check if the
process needs to be adjusted, Emma Astrom, who monitors the process, randomly
samples and weighs five bottles every 15 minutes for a 5-hour period. The data are
contained in the data file Bottles.
a) Compute the sample mean, sample standard deviations for individual bottles,
and the standard deviation of the sample mean for each sample.
Descriptive Statistics

V2
V3
V4
V5
V6
Valid N (listwise)

Minimum

Maximum

Mean

Std.
Deviation

20
20
20
20
20
20

680
685
698
690
690

723
720
720
720
721

707.50
709.30
709.35
706.70
707.30

10.846
8.405
6.714
7.079
7.255

Descriptive Statistics
N
V2

100
Valid N (listwise) 100

Minimum

Maximum Mean

Std.
Deviation

680

723

8.106

708.03

b) Determine the probability that the sample means are below 685 milliliters if
the population mean is 710.
Probability is 0.001021
c) Determine the probability that the sample means are above 720 milliliters
probability is 0.89
Question # 8.14: Prairie Flower Cereal, Inc., is a small, but growing, producer of
hot and ready-to-eat breakfast cereals. Gordon Thorson, a successful grain farmer,
started the company in 1910 (Carlson 1997). Two machines are used for packaging
18-ounce (510-gram) boxes of sugar-coated wheat cereal. Estimate the difference in
the mean weights of boxes of this type of cereal packaged by the two machines.
Use a 95% confidence level and the data file Sugar Coated Wheat. Explain your
findings.

Question # 7.86: A sample of 33 accounting students recorded the number of

hours that they spent studying for a final exam. The data are stored in the data file
Study.
a) Give an example of an unbiased, consistent, and efficient estimator of the
population mean.
b) Find the sampling error for a 95% confidence interval estimate of the mean
number of hours students studied for this exam.

Question # 9.77: The body mass index (variable BMI) provides an indication of a
persons level of body fat as follows: healthy weight, 2025; overweight, >2530;
obese, greater than 30. Excess body weight is, of course, related to diet, but, in
turn, what we eat depends on who we are in terms of culture and our entire life
experience. Based on an analysis using mean weight, can you conclude that white
people have a healthy weight? Can you conclude that based on mean weight, white
people are overweight? You will do the analysis based first on the data from the first
interview, create a subset from the data file using daycode = 1, and a second time
using data from the second interview, create a subset from the data file using
daycode = 2. Note that there are differences in the responses between the first and
second interviews.

H0: White people have a healthy weight

H1: White people are overweight

1st Interview

Group Statistics

_B
Independent Samples Test

_n

Mean

Std.
Deviation

Std.
Mean

2025

29.20

6.573

.146

2357

27.85

6.065

.125

Levene's Test for

Error

t-test for Equality of Means

Equality of Variances
F

Sig.

df

Sig. (2tailed)

Mean

Std. Error

Difference Difference

95% Confidence
Interval of the
Difference
Lower

_B

Equal variances
assumed

11.063

.001

7.022

4380

.000

1.341

.191

.967

Upper
1.716

Equal variances

6.980 4157.3

not assumed

.000

1.341

.192

.965

1.718

03

2nd Interview

Group Statistics
_n
_B

Mean

Std. Deviation

Std. Error Mean

1844

29.35

6.577

.153

2213

27.92

6.117

.130

Independent Samples Test

Levene's Test for

t-test for Equality of Means

Equality of Variances
F

Sig.

df

Sig. (2-

Mean

Std. Error

95% Confidence Interva

tailed)

Difference

Difference

of the Difference
Lower

Equal variances
_B

9.024

.003

Upper

7.192

4055

.000

1.435

.200

1.044

1.82

7.145

3808.7

.000

1.435

.201

1.042

1.82

assumed
Equal variances not
assumed

84

Based on the results we will reject the null hypothesis for both the interviews, hence
we can conclude that white people are overweight, because on average they have a
BMI between 25 and 30.