Edexcel S3 2013 June — Question 6

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2013
SessionJune
TopicCentral limit theorem

6. The continuous random variable \(X\) is uniformly distributed over the interval $$[ a - 1 , a + 5 ]$$ where \(a\) is a constant.
Fifty observations of \(X\) are taken, giving a sample mean of 17.2
  1. Use the Central Limit Theorem to find an approximate distribution for \(\bar { X }\).
  2. Hence find a 95\% confidence interval for \(a\).