OCR H240/02 2020 November — Question 12

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleH240/02 (Pure Mathematics and Statistics)
Year2020
SessionNovember
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

12 In the past, the time for Jeff's journey to work had mean 45.7 minutes and standard deviation 5.6 minutes. This year he is trying a new route. In order to test whether the new route has reduced his journey time, Jeff finds the mean time for a random sample of 30 journeys using the new route. He carries out a hypothesis test at the 2.5\% significance level. Jeff assumes that, for the new route, the journey time has a normal distribution with standard deviation 5.6 minutes.
  1. State appropriate null and alternative hypotheses for the test.
  2. Determine the rejection region for the test.