| Exam Board | CAIE |
| Module | FP2 (Further Pure Mathematics 2) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Session | June |
| Topic | Linear combinations of normal random variables |
| Type | Pooled variance estimation |
6 The independent random variables \(X\) and \(Y\) have distributions with the same variance \(\sigma ^ { 2 }\). Random samples of \(N\) observations of \(X\) and 10 observations of \(Y\) are taken, and the results are summarised by
$$\Sigma x = 5 , \quad \Sigma x ^ { 2 } = 11 , \quad \Sigma y = 10 , \quad \Sigma y ^ { 2 } = 160 .$$
These data give a pooled estimate of 12 for \(\sigma ^ { 2 }\). Find \(N\).