From section 8-3.

8.  Commute Time to Work A survey of 15 large U.S. cities finds that the average commute time one way is 25.4 minutes. A chamber of commerce executive feels that the commute in his city is less and wants to publicize this. He randomly selects 25 commuters and finds the average is 22.1 minutes with a standard deviation of 5.3 minutes. At a significance value of 0.10, is he correct?

12. Income of College Students’ Parents A large university reports that the mean salary of parents of an entering class is $91,600. To see how this compares to his university, a president surveys 28 randomly selected families and finds that their average income is $88,500. If the standard deviation is $10,000, can the president conclude that there is a difference? At α = 0.10, is he correct?

From section 8-4.

6. Stocks and Mutual Fund Ownership It has been found that 50.3% of U.S. households own stocks and mutual funds. A random sample of 300 heads of households indicated that 171 owned some type of stock. At what level of significance would you conclude that this was a significant difference?

20. Foreign Languages Spoken in Homes Approximately 19.4% of the U.S. population 5 years old and older speaks a language other than English at home. In a large metropolitan area it was found that out of 400 randomly selected residents over 5 years of age, 94 spoke a language other than English at home. Is there sufficient evidence to conclude that the proportion is higher than the national proportion? Justify with a P-value.