Edexcel S4 2007 June — Question 7

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS4 (Statistics 4)
Year2007
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

7. A doctor wishes to study the level of blood glucose in males. The level of blood glucose is normally distributed. The doctor measured the blood glucose of 10 randomly selected male students from a school. The results, in mmol/litre, are given below. $$\begin{array} { l l l l l l l l l l } 4.7 & 3.6 & 3.8 & 4.7 & 4.1 & 2.2 & 3.6 & 4.0 & 4.4 & 5.0 \end{array}$$
  1. Calculate a \(95 \%\) confidence interval for the mean.
  2. Calculate a 95\% confidence interval for the variance. A blood glucose reading of more than 7 mmol/litre is counted as high.
  3. Use appropriate confidence limits from parts (a) and (b) to find the highest estimate of the proportion of male students in the school with a high blood glucose level. \section*{END}