CAIE S2 2021 March — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2021
SessionMarch
TopicCentral limit theorem

1 A construction company notes the time, \(t\) days, that it takes to build each house of a certain design. The results for a random sample of 60 such houses are summarised as follows. $$\Sigma t = 4820 \quad \Sigma t ^ { 2 } = 392050$$
  1. Calculate a 98\% confidence interval for the population mean time.
  2. Explain why it was necessary to use the Central Limit theorem in part (a).