AQA S2 2008 January — Question 1

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2008
SessionJanuary
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

1 David claims that customers have to queue at a supermarket checkout for more than 5 minutes, on average. The queuing times, \(x\) minutes, of 40 randomly selected customers result in \(\bar { x } = 5.5\) and \(s ^ { 2 } = 1.31\). Investigate, at the \(1 \%\) level of significance, David's claim.