| Exam Board | AQA |
| Module | S3 (Statistics 3) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Session | June |
| Topic | Hypothesis test of a normal distribution |
4 Holly, a horticultural researcher, believes that the mean height of stems on Tahiti daffodils exceeds that on Jetfire daffodils by more than 15 cm .
She measures the heights, \(x\) centimetres, of stems on a random sample of 65 Tahiti daffodils and finds that their mean, \(\bar { x }\), is 40.7 and that their standard deviation, \(s _ { x }\), is 3.4 .
She also measures the heights, \(y\) centimetres, of stems on a random sample of 75 Jetfire daffodils and finds that their mean, \(\bar { y }\), is 24.4 and that their standard deviation, \(s _ { y }\), is 2.8 .
Investigate, at the \(1 \%\) level of significance, Holly's belief.