Edexcel S3 — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

3. A film-buff is interested in how long it takes for the credits to roll at the end of a movie. She takes a random sample of 20 movies from those that she has bought on DVD and finds that the credits on these films last for a total of 46 minutes and 15 seconds
  1. Assuming that the time for the credits to roll follows a Normal distribution with a standard deviation of 23 seconds, use her data to calculate a \(90 \%\) confidence interval for the mean time taken for the credits to roll.
    (5 marks)
  2. Find the minimum number of movies she would need to have included in her sample for her confidence interval to have a width of less than 10 seconds.
    (5 marks)
  3. Explain why her sample might not be representative of all movies.