Edexcel S3 2004 June — Question 4

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2004
SessionJune
TopicCentral limit theorem

4. Kylie regularly travels from home to visit a friend. On 10 randomly selected occasions the journey time \(x\) minutes was recorded. The results are summarised as follows. $$\Sigma x = 753 , \quad \Sigma x ^ { 2 } = 57455 .$$
  1. Calculate unbiased estimates of the mean and the variance of the population of journey times. After many journeys, a random sample of 100 journeys gave a mean of 74.8 minutes and a variance of 84.6 minutes \({ } ^ { 2 }\).
  2. Calculate a 95\% confidence interval for the mean of the population of journey times.
  3. Write down two assumptions you made in part (b).