| Exam Board | CAIE |
| Module | FP2 (Further Pure Mathematics 2) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Session | November |
| Topic | Linear combinations of normal random variables |
| Type | Pooled 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 \(n\).