Edexcel S3 2016 June — Question 7

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2016
SessionJune
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TopicConfidence intervals
TypeComment on claim using CI
DifficultyStandard +0.3 This is a straightforward S3 confidence interval question requiring standard application of formulas. Part (a) uses the normal distribution with known sample statistics (4 marks of routine calculation), part (b) requires simple interpretation (2 marks), and part (c) involves rearranging the probability statement to find sample size using inverse normal tables (5 marks but mechanical). All techniques are standard textbook exercises with no novel insight required, making it slightly easier than average.
Spec5.05d Confidence intervals: using normal distribution

A restaurant states that its hamburgers contain 20\% fat. Paul claims that the mean fat content of their hamburgers is less than 20\%. Paul takes a random sample of 50 hamburgers from the restaurant and finds that they contain a mean fat content of 19.5\% with a standard deviation of 1.5\% You may assume that the fat content of hamburgers is normally distributed.
  1. Find the 90\% confidence interval for the mean fat content of hamburgers from the restaurant. (4)
  2. State, with a reason, what action Paul should recommend the restaurant takes over the stated fat content of their hamburgers. (2) The restaurant changes the mean fat content of their hamburgers to \(\mu\)\% and adjusts the standard deviation to 2\%. Paul takes a sample of size \(n\) from this new batch of hamburgers. He uses the sample mean \(\bar{X}\) as an estimator of \(\mu\).
  3. Find the minimum value of \(n\) such that \(\mathrm{P}(|\bar{X} - \mu| < 0.5) \geq 0.9\) (5)

A restaurant states that its hamburgers contain 20\% fat. Paul claims that the mean fat content of their hamburgers is less than 20\%. Paul takes a random sample of 50 hamburgers from the restaurant and finds that they contain a mean fat content of 19.5\% with a standard deviation of 1.5\%

You may assume that the fat content of hamburgers is normally distributed.

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\item Find the 90\% confidence interval for the mean fat content of hamburgers from the restaurant.
(4)

\item State, with a reason, what action Paul should recommend the restaurant takes over the stated fat content of their hamburgers.
(2)

The restaurant changes the mean fat content of their hamburgers to $\mu$\% and adjusts the standard deviation to 2\%. Paul takes a sample of size $n$ from this new batch of hamburgers. He uses the sample mean $\bar{X}$ as an estimator of $\mu$.

\item Find the minimum value of $n$ such that $\mathrm{P}(|\bar{X} - \mu| < 0.5) \geq 0.9$
(5)
\end{enumerate}

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