| Exam Board | AQA |
| Module | S2 (Statistics 2) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Session | January |
| Topic | Hypothesis test of a normal distribution |
3 The handicap committee of a golf club has indicated that the mean score achieved by the club's members in the past was 85.9 .
A group of members believes that recent changes to the golf course have led to a change in the mean score achieved by the club's members and decides to investigate this belief.
A random sample of the scores, \(x\), of 100 club members was taken and is summarised by
$$\sum x = 8350 \quad \text { and } \quad \sum ( x - \bar { x } ) ^ { 2 } = 15321$$
where \(\bar { x }\) denotes the sample mean.
Test, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, the group's belief that the mean score of 85.9 has changed.