Edexcel S4 2004 June — Question 6

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS4 (Statistics 4)
Year2004
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

6. A supervisor wishes to cheek the typing speed of a new typist. On 10 randomly selected occasions, the supervisor records the time taken for the new typist to type 100 words. The results, in seconds, are given below. $$110,125,130,126,128,127,118,120,122,125$$ The supervisor assumes that the time taken to type 100 words is normally distributed.
  1. Calculate a 95\% confidence interval for
    1. the mean,
    2. the variance
      of the population of times taken by this typist to type 100 words. The supervisor requires the average time needed to type 100 words to be no more than 130 seconds and the standard deviation to be no more than 4 seconds.
  2. Comment on whether or not the supervisor should be concerned about the speed of the new typist.