Edexcel S1 — Question 4

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
TopicMeasures of Location and Spread
TypeStandard combined mean and SD

4. A company offering a bicycle courier service within London collected data on the delivery times for a sample of jobs completed by staff at each of its two offices. The times, \(t\) minutes, for 20 deliveries handled by the company's Hammersmith office were summarised by $$\Sigma t = 427 , \text { and } \Sigma t ^ { 2 } = 11077$$
  1. Find the mean and variance of the delivery times in this sample. The company's Holborn office handles more business, so the delivery times for a sample of 30 jobs handled by this office was taken. The mean and standard deviation of this sample were 18.5 minutes and 8.2 minutes respectively.
  2. Find the mean and variance of the delivery times of the combined sample of 50 deliveries.