AQA S3 2007 June — Question 1

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2007
SessionJune
TopicLinear combinations of normal random variables
TypeStandard CI with summary statistics

1 As part of an investigation into the starting salaries of graduates in a European country, the following information was collected.
\multirow{2}{*}{}Starting salary (€)
Sample sizeSample meanSample standard deviation
Science graduates175192687321
Arts graduates225178968205
  1. Stating a necessary assumption about the samples, construct a \(98 \%\) confidence interval for the difference between the mean starting salary of science graduates and that of arts graduates.
  2. What can be concluded from your confidence interval?