CAIE S2 2016 June — Question 4

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2016
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

4 In the past, the time spent by customers in a certain shop had mean 12.5 minutes and standard deviation 4.2 minutes. Following a change of layout in the shop, the mean time spent in the shop by a random sample of 50 customers is found to be 13.5 minutes.
  1. Assuming that the standard deviation remains at 4.2 minutes, test at the \(5 \%\) significance level whether the mean time spent by customers in the shop has changed.
  2. Another random sample of 50 customers is chosen and a similar test at the \(5 \%\) significance level is carried out. State the probability of a Type I error.