OCR S2 2005 June — Question 4

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2005
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

4 The height of sweet pea plants grown in a nursery is a random variable. A random sample of 50 plants is measured and is found to have a mean height 1.72 m and variance \(0.0967 \mathrm {~m} ^ { 2 }\).
  1. Calculate an unbiased estimate for the population variance of the heights of sweet pea plants.
  2. Hence test, at the \(10 \%\) significance level, whether the mean height of sweet pea plants grown by the nursery is 1.8 m , stating your hypotheses clearly.