DEPARTMENT
OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY
OF GHANA
PROF. A. ESSUMAN-JOHNSON
OCTOBER
7, 2014
POLI
443; APPLIED POLITICAL RESEARCH
CLASS
ASSIGNMENT 1
ASSIGNMENT
HAS TO BE HANDED TO TEACHING ASSISTANTS BY FRIDAY OCTOBER 24, 2014. HANDWRITTEN
ON OFFICIAL PAPERS/SHEETS
- The quantitative part of a national exam is scaled so that the mean score is 500 and the standard deviation is 100. If the distribution of scores is normally distributed (a) what proportion of students scored between 500 and 682? (b) What proportion scored between 340 and 682.
- A researcher found that the length of time for five-person student groups to reach a consensus on a sexual harassment policy at the University of Ghana has a normal distribution with µ = 2.2 hours and σ = 0.25. (a) What is the probability that a randomly selected group of students will reach a consensus on a similar policy in less than 1.5 hours? (b) In another experiment with a group of five students, they reached a consensus on the policy beforehand? Give reasons for your answer.
- The annual incomes of TEWU workers in all the public Universities in Ghana are assumed to be normally distributed with µ=GHȻ 18,500 and σ = GHȻ 1,600. (a) What proportion of TEWU workers receive an income greater than GHȻ 20,000? (b) Less than GHȻ 15,500.
- Suppose that TEWU claims that the average annual wage for their members is GHȻ22,000 per year but it is suspected that the actual annual wage is less than GHȻ22,000. Data collected for a sample of 40 union employees showed a mean wage of GHȻ21,250 and s=702. Using α = 0.05, determine if the assumption is true.
- A hospital claims that the average length of patient confinement is 5 days. A study of the length of patient confinement of 36 people showed a mean of 6.2 and s=5.2. Does this data support the hospital’s claim? Use α = 0.01.
- In the case of the hospital’s claims in q.5, if a sample of 26 people was chosen, would the data support the claims of the hospital?
