CAIE S2 2023 November — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2023
SessionNovember
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

2 The length, in minutes, of mathematics lectures at a certain college has mean \(\mu\) and standard deviation 8.3.
  1. The total length of a random sample of 85 lectures was 4590 minutes. Calculate a 95\% confidence interval for \(\mu\).
    The length, in minutes, of history lectures at the college has mean \(m\) and standard deviation \(s\).
  2. Using a random sample of 100 history lectures, a 95\% confidence interval for \(m\) was found to have width 2.8 minutes. Find the value of \(s\).