Edexcel S2 2015 January — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2015
SessionJanuary
TopicCentral limit theorem
TypeSampling distribution theory

3. Explain what you understand by
  1. a statistic,
  2. a sampling distribution. A factory stores screws in packets. A small packet contains 100 screws and a large packet contains 200 screws. The factory keeps small and large packets in the ratio 4:3 respectively.
  3. Find the mean and the variance of the number of screws in the packets stored at the factory. A random sample of 3 packets is taken from the factory and \(Y _ { 1 } , Y _ { 2 }\) and \(Y _ { 3 }\) denote the number of screws in each of these packets.
  4. List all the possible samples.
  5. Find the sampling distribution of \(\bar { Y }\)