CAIE S2 2021 March — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2021
SessionMarch
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

3 An architect wishes to investigate whether the buildings in a certain city are higher, on average, than buildings in other cities. He takes a large random sample of buildings from the city and finds the mean height of the buildings in the sample. He calculates the value of the test statistic, \(z\), and finds that \(z = 2.41\).
  1. Explain briefly whether he should use a one-tail test or a two-tail test.
  2. Carry out the test at the \(1 \%\) significance level.