OCR S3 2015 June — Question 4

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2015
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

4 A set of bathroom scales is known to operate with an error which is normally distributed. One morning a man weighs himself 4 times. The 4 values for his mass, in kg , which can be considered to be a random sample are as follows. $$\begin{array} { l l l l } 62.6 & 62.8 & 62.1 & 62.5 \end{array}$$
  1. Find a \(95 \%\) confidence interval for his mass. Give the end-points of the interval correct to 3 decimal places.
  2. Based on these results, a \(y \%\) confidence interval has width 0.482 . Find \(y\).