AQA Further AS Paper 2 Statistics 2018 June — Question 4

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleFurther AS Paper 2 Statistics (Further AS Paper 2 Statistics)
Year2018
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

4 The waiting times for patients to see a doctor in a hospital can be modelled with a normal distribution with known variance of 10 minutes. 4
  1. A random sample of 100 patients has a total waiting time of 3540 minutes.
    Calculate a \(98 \%\) confidence interval for the population mean of waiting times, giving values to four significant figures.
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  2. Dante conducts a hypothesis test with the sample from part (a) on the waiting times. Dante's hypotheses are $$\begin{aligned} & \mathrm { H } _ { 0 } : \mu = 38
    & \mathrm { H } _ { 1 } : \mu \neq 38 \end{aligned}$$ Dante uses a \(2 \%\) level of significance.
    Explain whether Dante accepts or rejects the null hypothesis.