OCR MEI Further Statistics B AS Specimen — Question 6

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleFurther Statistics B AS (Further Statistics B AS)
SessionSpecimen
TopicCentral limit theorem

6 The table below shows the mean and variance of the test scores of a random samples of 70 girls who are starting an A level Mathematics course.
Sample meanSample variance
118.8686.57
  1. Showing your working, find a \(95 \%\) confidence interval for the population mean.
  2. Explain why you can construct the interval in part (i) despite no information about the distribution of the parent population being given.
  3. The same random sample of girls repeats the test. The mean improvement in score is 0.9 . The \(95 \%\) confidence interval for the improvement is \([ - 1.5,3.3 ]\). What is the sample variance for the improvement in score?