Edexcel S3 2006 January — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2006
SessionJanuary
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

3. The drying times of paint can be assumed to be normally distributed. A paint manufacturer paints 10 test areas with a new paint. The following drying times, to the nearest minute, were recorded. $$82 , \quad 98 , \quad 140 , \quad 110 , \quad 90 , \quad 125 , \quad 150 , \quad 130 , \quad 70 , \quad 110 .$$
  1. Calculate unbiased estimates for the mean and the variance of the population of drying times of this paint. Given that the population standard deviation is 25 ,
  2. find a 95\% confidence interval for the mean drying time of this paint. Fifteen similar sets of tests are done and the \(95 \%\) confidence interval is determined for each set.
  3. Estimate the expected number of these 15 intervals that will enclose the true value of the population mean \(\mu\).