AQA Further AS Paper 2 Statistics 2022 June — Question 4

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleFurther AS Paper 2 Statistics (Further AS Paper 2 Statistics)
Year2022
SessionJune
TopicCentral limit theorem
TypeSample size determination

4 The height of lilac trees, in metres, can be modelled by a normal distribution with variance 0.7 A random sample of \(n\) lilac trees is taken and used to construct a 99\% confidence interval for the population mean. This confidence interval is \(( 5.239,5.429 )\)
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  1. Find the value of \(n\)
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  2. Joey claims that the mean height of lilac trees is 5.3 metres.
    State, with a reason, whether the confidence interval supports Joey's claim.