Edexcel S4 2013 June — Question 1

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS4 (Statistics 4)
Year2013
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

  1. George owns a garage and he records the mileage of cars, \(x\) thousands of miles, between services. The results from a random sample of 10 cars are summarised below.
$$\sum x = 113.4 \quad \sum x ^ { 2 } = 1414.08$$ The mileage of cars between services is normally distributed and George believes that the standard deviation is 2.4 thousand miles. Stating your hypotheses clearly, test, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, whether or not these data support George’s belief.