Edexcel S1 2004 November — Question 6

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2004
SessionNovember
TopicBivariate data
TypeCalculate summary statistics (Sxx, Syy, Sxy)

6. Students in Mr Brawn's exercise class have to do press-ups and sit-ups. The number of press-ups \(x\) and the number of sit-ups \(y\) done by a random sample of 8 students are summarised below. $$\begin{array} { l l } \Sigma x = 272 , & \Sigma x ^ { 2 } = 10164 , \quad \Sigma x y = 11222 ,
\Sigma y = 320 , & \Sigma y ^ { 2 } = 13464 . \end{array}$$
  1. Evaluate \(S _ { x x } , S _ { y y }\) and \(S _ { x y }\).
  2. Calculate, to 3 decimal places, the product moment correlation coefficient between \(x\) and \(y\).
  3. Give an interpretation of your coefficient.
  4. Calculate the mean and the standard deviation of the number of press-ups done by these students. Mr Brawn assumes that the number of press-ups that can be done by any student can be modelled by a normal distribution with mean \(\mu\) and standard deviation \(\sigma\). Assuming that \(\mu\) and \(\sigma\) take the same values as those calculated in part (d),
  5. find the value of \(a\) such that \(\mathrm { P } ( \mu - a < X < \mu + a ) = 0.95\).
  6. Comment on Mr Brawn's assumption of normality.