Edexcel S3 2014 June — Question 5

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2014
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

5. A student believes that there is a difference in the mean lengths of English and French films. He goes to the university video library and randomly selects a sample of 120 English films and a sample of 70 French films. He notes the length, \(x\) minutes, of each of the films in his samples. His data are summarised in the table below.
\(\Sigma x\)\(\Sigma x ^ { 2 }\)\(s ^ { 2 }\)\(n\)
English films1065095690998.5120
French films651061584915170
  1. Verify that the unbiased estimate of the variance, \(s ^ { 2 }\), of the lengths of English films is 98.5 minutes \({ } ^ { 2 }\)
  2. Stating your hypotheses clearly, test, at the 1\% level of significance, whether or not the mean lengths of English and French films are different.
  3. Explain the significance of the Central Limit Theorem to the test in part (b).
  4. The university video library contained 724 English films and 473 French films. Explain how the student could have taken a stratified sample of 190 of these films.