OCR S2 2007 January — Question 8

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2007
SessionJanuary
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

8 The quantity, \(X\) milligrams per litre, of silicon dioxide in a certain brand of mineral water is a random variable with distribution \(\mathrm { N } \left( \mu , 5.6 ^ { 2 } \right)\).
  1. A random sample of 80 observations of \(X\) has sample mean 100.7. Test, at the \(1 \%\) significance level, the null hypothesis \(\mathrm { H } _ { 0 } : \mu = 102\) against the alternative hypothesis \(\mathrm { H } _ { 1 } : \mu \neq 102\).
  2. The test is redesigned so as to meet the following conditions.
    • The hypotheses are \(\mathrm { H } _ { 0 } : \mu = 102\) and \(\mathrm { H } _ { 1 } : \mu < 102\).
    • The significance level is \(1 \%\).
    • The probability of making a Type II error when \(\mu = 100\) is to be (approximately) 0.05 .
    The sample size is \(n\), and the critical region is \(\bar { X } < c\), where \(\bar { X }\) denotes the sample mean.
    (a) Show that \(n\) and \(c\) satisfy (approximately) the equation \(102 - c = \frac { 13.0256 } { \sqrt { n } }\).
    (b) Find another equation satisfied by \(n\) and \(c\).
    (c) Hence find the values of \(n\) and \(c\).