Edexcel S3 2018 June — Question 6

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2018
SessionJune
TopicCentral limit theorem

6. The continuous random variable \(Y\) is uniformly distributed over the interval $$[ a - 3 , a + 6 ]$$ where \(a\) is a constant. A random sample of 60 observations of \(Y\) is taken.
Given that \(\bar { Y } = \frac { \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { 60 } Y _ { i } } { 60 }\)
  1. use the Central Limit Theorem to find an approximate distribution for \(\bar { Y }\) Given that the 60 observations of \(Y\) have a sample mean of 13.4
  2. find a \(98 \%\) confidence interval for the maximum value that \(Y\) can take.