Edexcel FS2 2020 June — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleFS2 (Further Statistics 2)
Year2020
SessionJune
TopicCentral limit theorem

2 Jemima makes jam to sell in a local shop. The jam is sold in jars and the weight of jam in a jar is normally distributed. Jemima takes a random sample of 8 of her jars of jam and weighs the contents of each jar, \(x\) grams. Her results are summarised as follows $$\sum x = 3552 \quad \sum x ^ { 2 } = 1577314$$
  1. Calculate a 95\% confidence interval for the mean weight of jam in a jar. The labels on the jars state that the average contents weigh 440 grams.
  2. State, giving a reason, whether or not Jemima should be concerned about the labels on her jars of jam.