CAIE S2 2021 June — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2021
SessionJune
TopicLinear combinations of normal random variables
TypeSingle normal population sample mean

2 The time, in minutes, taken by students to complete a test has the distribution \(\mathrm { N } ( 125,36 )\).
  1. Find the probability that the mean time taken to complete the test by a random sample of 40 students is less than 123 minutes.
  2. Explain whether it was necessary to use the Central Limit theorem in the solution to part (a).