AQA S2 2015 June — Question 4 2 marks

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2015
SessionJune
Marks2
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

4 Wellgrove village has a main road running through it that has a 40 mph speed limit. The villagers were concerned that many vehicles travelled too fast through the village, and so they set up a device for measuring the speed of vehicles on this main road. This device indicated that the mean speed of vehicles travelling through Wellgrove was 44.1 mph . In an attempt to reduce the mean speed of vehicles travelling through Wellgrove, life-size photographs of a police officer were erected next to the road on the approaches to the village. The speed, \(X \mathrm { mph }\), of a sample of 100 vehicles was then measured and the following data obtained. $$\sum x = 4327.0 \quad \sum ( x - \bar { x } ) ^ { 2 } = 925.71$$
  1. State an assumption that must be made about the sample in order to carry out a hypothesis test to investigate whether the desired reduction in mean speed had occurred.
  2. Given that the assumption that you stated in part (a) is valid, carry out such a test, using the \(1 \%\) level of significance.
  3. Explain, in the context of this question, the meaning of:
    1. a Type I error;
    2. a Type II error.
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