CAIE FP2 2009 June — Question 6 6 marks

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleFP2 (Further Pure Mathematics 2)
Year2009
SessionJune
Marks6
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

6 The times taken by employees in a factory to complete a certain task have a normal distribution with mean \(\mu\) seconds and standard deviation \(\sigma\) seconds, both of which are unknown. Based on a random sample of 20 employees, the symmetric \(95 \%\) confidence interval for \(\mu\) is \(( 481,509 )\). Calculate a symmetric \(90 \%\) confidence interval for \(\mu\).
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