Edexcel S3 2021 October — Question 6

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2021
SessionOctober
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

6. Amala believes that the resting heart rate is lower in men who exercise regularly compared to men who do not exercise regularly. She measures the resting heart rate, \(h\), of a random sample of 50 men who exercise regularly and a random sample of 40 men who do not exercise regularly. Her results are summarised in the table below.
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Sample
size
\(\sum \boldsymbol { h }\)\(\sum \boldsymbol { h } ^ { 2 }\)
Unbiased
estimate of
the mean
Unbiased
estimate of
the variance
Exercise regularly503270214676\(\alpha\)\(\beta\)
Do not exercise
regularly
40283220166070.829.6
  1. Calculate the value of \(\alpha\) and the value of \(\beta\)
  2. Test, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, whether there is evidence to support Amala's belief. State your hypotheses clearly.
  3. Explain the significance of the central limit theorem to the test in part (b).
  4. State two assumptions you have made in carrying out the test in part (b).