CAIE S2 2022 November — Question 5

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2022
SessionNovember
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

5 A builders' merchant sells stones of different sizes.
  1. The masses of size \(A\) stones have standard deviation 6 grams. The mean mass of a random sample of 200 size \(A\) stones is 45 grams. Find a 95\% confidence interval for the population mean mass of size \(A\) stones.
  2. The masses of size \(B\) stones have standard deviation 11 grams. Using a random sample of size 200, an \(\alpha \%\) confidence interval for the population mean mass is found to have width 4 grams. Find \(\alpha\).