CAIE FP2 2013 November — Question 7

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleFP2 (Further Pure Mathematics 2)
Year2013
SessionNovember
TopicLinear combinations of normal random variables
TypePooled variance estimation

7 Two independent random variables \(X\) and \(Y\) have distributions with the same variance \(\sigma ^ { 2 }\). Random samples of \(n\) observations of \(X\) and \(2 n\) observations of \(Y\) are taken and the results are summarised by $$\Sigma x = 10.0 , \quad \Sigma x ^ { 2 } = 25.0 , \quad \Sigma y = 15.0 , \quad \Sigma y ^ { 2 } = 43.5 .$$ Given that the pooled estimate of \(\sigma ^ { 2 }\) is 2 , find the value of \(n\).