| Exam Board | CAIE |
| Module | FP2 (Further Pure Mathematics 2) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Session | June |
| Topic | Hypothesis test of a normal distribution |
8 A large number of long jumpers are competing in a national long jump competition. The distances, in metres, jumped by a random sample of 7 competitors are as follows.
$$\begin{array} { l l l l l l l }
6.25 & 7.01 & 5.74 & 6.89 & 7.24 & 5.64 & 6.52
\end{array}$$
Assuming that distances are normally distributed, test, at the \(5 \%\) significance level, whether the mean distance jumped by long jumpers in this competition is greater than 6.2 metres.
The distances jumped by another random sample of 8 long jumpers in this competition are recorded. Using the data from this sample of 8 long jumpers, a \(95 \%\) confidence interval for the population mean, \(\mu\) metres, is calculated as \(5.89 < \mu < 6.75\). Find the unbiased estimates for the population mean and population variance used in this calculation.