Edexcel S3 2007 June — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2007
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

  1. The time, in minutes, it takes Robert to complete the puzzle in his morning newspaper each day is normally distributed with mean 18 and standard deviation 3. After taking a holiday, Robert records the times taken to complete a random sample of 15 puzzles and he finds that the mean time is 16.5 minutes. You may assume that the holiday has not changed the standard deviation of times taken to complete the puzzle.
Stating your hypotheses clearly test, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, whether or not there has been a reduction in the mean time Robert takes to complete the puzzle.