CAIE S2 2020 March — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2020
SessionMarch
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeValidity of normal model

2 Lengths of a certain species of lizard are known to be normally distributed with standard deviation 3.2 cm . A naturalist measures the lengths of a random sample of 100 lizards of this species and obtains an \(\alpha \%\) confidence interval for the population mean. He finds that the total width of this interval is 1.25 cm . Find \(\alpha\).