CAIE S2 2021 November — Question 7

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

7 The masses, in grams, of apples from a certain farm have mean \(\mu\) and standard deviation 5.2. The farmer says that the value of \(\mu\) is 64.6. A quality control inspector claims that the value of \(\mu\) is actually less than 64.6. In order to test his claim he chooses a random sample of 100 apples from the farm.
  1. The mean mass of the 100 apples is found to be 63.5 g . Carry out the test at the \(2.5 \%\) significance level.
  2. Later another test of the same hypotheses at the \(2.5 \%\) significance level, with another random sample of 100 apples from the same farm, is carried out. Given that the value of \(\mu\) is in fact 62.7 , calculate the probability of a Type II error.
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