OCR MEI Further Statistics Major 2021 November — Question 1

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleFurther Statistics Major (Further Statistics Major)
Year2021
SessionNovember
TopicCentral limit theorem

1 When babies are born, their head circumferences are measured. A random sample of 50 newborn female babies is selected. The sample mean head circumference is 34.711 cm . The sample standard deviation head circumference is 1.530 cm .
  1. Determine a 95\% confidence interval for the population mean head circumference of newborn female babies.
  2. Explain why you can calculate this interval even though the distribution of the population of head circumferences of newborn female babies is unknown.