OCR S2 2011 January — Question 4

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2011
SessionJanuary
TopicCentral limit theorem
TypeHypothesis test for mean

4 The continuous random variable \(X\) has mean \(\mu\) and standard deviation 45. A significance test is to be carried out of the null hypothesis \(\mathrm { H } _ { 0 } : \mu = 230\) against the alternative hypothesis \(\mathrm { H } _ { 1 } : \mu \neq 230\), at the \(1 \%\) significance level. A random sample of size 50 is obtained, and the sample mean is found to be 213.4.
  1. Carry out the test.
  2. Explain whether it is necessary to use the Central Limit Theorem in your test.