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Important Questions on Hypothesis Testing
An archer claims that her skill at firing arrows is such that she can hit the bullseye of the time. A hypothesis test at the significance level is carried out to test if the archer is as good as she claims to be. The archer fires arrows at a target.
Find the rejection region.

A television channel claims that of its programmes are nature programmes. Yolande thinks the percentage claimed is too high. To test her hypothesis, she chooses programmes at random.
If there are only two nature programmes, calculate the test statistic. What conclusion does Yolande reach? Significance level is .

For testing Against , what is the critical value at .

A manufacturer sells bags of marbles in mixed colours. It claims that of the marbles are red. Ginny thinks this is incorrect and tests the claim by opening a bag of marbles and counting how many are red.
Carry out a hypothesis test at the level of significance given that Ginny finds three red marbles.
Suppose Ginny thinks the percentage should be lower than . State the hypotheses. Will Ginny's conclusion change?

A farmer finds that of his sheep are deficient in a particular mineral. He changes their feed and tests sheep to find out if the number has decreased.
Using a suitable approximating distribution, carry out a hypothesis test at the significance level given that of the sheep are mineral deficient.

Critical value at level of significance for two-tailed large sample test is



A television channel claims that of its programmes are nature programmes. Yolande thinks the percentage claimed is too high. To test her hypothesis, she chooses programmes at random.
If there are only two nature programmes, calculate the test statistic. If the significance level was , what conclusion would Yolande reach?

Critical value at level of significance for two-tailed large sample test is

A supplier of duck hatching eggs claims that up to of its duck eggs will produce ducklings. Gareth orders duck hatching eggs and carries out a hypothesis test at the significance level to test this claim.
Find the rejection region.


For testing Against , what is the critical value at α = 0.01

A manufacturer sells bags of marbles in mixed colours. It claims that of the marbles are red. Ginny thinks this is incorrect and tests the claim by opening a bag of marbles and counting how many are red.
Carry out a hypothesis test at the level of significance given that Ginny finds three red marbles. Find the critical value for this test.






To test the claim that a coin is biased towards tails, it is flipped nine times. Tails appears seven times.
test at the significance level whether the claim is justified.

