| Exam Board | CAIE |
| Module | S2 (Statistics 2) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Session | June |
| Topic | Hypothesis test of a normal distribution |
2 Past experience has shown that the heights of a certain variety of plant have mean 64.0 cm and standard deviation 3.8 cm . During a particularly hot summer, it was expected that the heights of plants of this variety would be less than usual. In order to test whether this was the case, a botanist recorded the heights of a random sample of 100 plants and found that the value of the sample mean was 63.3 cm . Stating a necessary assumption, carry out the test at the \(2.5 \%\) significance level.