OCR S2 2009 January — Question 7

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2009
SessionJanuary
TopicCentral limit theorem
TypeHypothesis test for mean

7 A motorist records the time taken, \(T\) minutes, to drive a particular stretch of road on each of 64 occasions. Her results are summarised by $$\Sigma t = 876.8 , \quad \Sigma t ^ { 2 } = 12657.28$$
  1. Test, at the \(5 \%\) significance level, whether the mean time for the motorist to drive the stretch of road is greater than 13.1 minutes.
  2. Explain whether it is necessary to use the Central Limit Theorem in your test.