Edexcel S3 2017 June — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2017
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

3. The manager of a gym claimed that the mean age of its customers is 30 years. A random sample of 75 customers is taken and their ages have a mean of 28.2 years and a standard deviation, \(s\), of 8.5 years.
  1. Stating your hypotheses clearly and using a 10\% level of significance, test whether or not the manager's claim is supported by the data.
  2. Explain the relevance of the Central Limit Theorem to your calculation in part (a).
  3. State an additional assumption needed to carry out the test in part (a).