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A press organization was interested in studying people’s voting habits. One hundred randomly selected registered voters over the age of 50 and one hundred randomly selected voters between the ages of 30 and 50 were asked if they had decided who they were going to vote for in the presidential election.  Would this be an example of independent or dependent samples?

A political scientist is interested in studying how Americans feel about having a female American president. He asks 100 liberals and 100 conservatives if they would vote for a women president. The political scientist hypothesized that more liberals(1) would vote for a women president than conservatives(2). What would be the correct null and alternative hypothesis?

Researchers were trying to determine if a connection could be made between television viewing habits and gender. They want to see whether less men (m) watch the television show, Game of Thrones, than women (f). What would be the correct alternative hypothesis?

A press organization was interested in studying people’s voting habits. One hundred randomly selected registered male voters and one hundred randomly selected female voters were asked if they had decided who they were going to vote for in the presidential election.  Would this be an example of independent or dependent samples?

A fellow student says that the average salary of graduates in your major is 30,000 dollars per year. You don’t think that this is correct. You think that the average salary is different from this. To show that your fellow student is wrong, you take a simple random sample of fifty graduates who have graduated in the past 5 years and ask for the amount of their starting salary. We want to investigate whether there is evidence to support your claim that the population mean starting salary is different from 30,000 and find that the p-value is 0.005.    What can be said about the 99% confidence interval for the population mean difference?

A fellow student says that the average salary of graduates in your major is 30,000 dollars per year. You don’t think that this is correct. You think that the average salary is different from this. To show that your fellow student is wrong, you take a simple random sample of fifty graduates who have graduated in the past 5 years and ask for the amount of their starting salary. We want to investigate whether there is evidence to support your claim that the population mean starting salary is different from 30,000 and find that the p-value is 0.03.    What can be said about the 99% confidence interval for the population mean difference?

A fellow student says that the average salary of graduates in your major is 30,000 dollars per year. You don’t think that this is correct. You think that the average salary is different from this. To show that your fellow student is wrong, you take a simple random sample of fifty graduates who have graduated in the past 5 years and ask for the amount of their starting salary. We want to investigate whether there is evidence to support your claim that the population mean starting salary is different from 30,000 and find that the p-value is 0.03.    What can be said about the 95% confidence interval for the population mean difference?

Suppose that a doctor wants to determine if a new exercise plan helps lower participants’ blood pressure levels. The blood pressure level for each participant is recorded for each participant before beginning the program. Each of the participants then participates in the new exercise plan for 6 weeks. Then blood pressure is then taken again. Let mu_d = the average blood pressure before – average blood pressure after. What is the correct alternative hypothesis?

An instructor was interested in studying students satisfactory solving of a math problem. The students were given a math problem to solve before and after instruction. Each time, the student was given either a “S” for satisfactory completion or “U” for unsatisfactory completion. Two hundred randomly selected students were involved in the study. “S” after instruction “U” after instruction “S” before instruction 99 14 “U” before instruction 12 75  Besides random sampling and categorical data, what other assumption needs to be met? Is it met?

Is the mean nursing salary for men and women with similar experience statistically significantly different? A significance test was conducted to test this claim. The p-value was 0.03. What can be said about the 95% confidence interval for the population mean difference?