AQA S3 2009 June — Question 4

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2009
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis 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.