CAIE S2 2009 June — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2009
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

1 In Europe the diameters of women's rings have mean 18.5 mm . Researchers claim that women in Jakarta have smaller fingers than women in Europe. The researchers took a random sample of 20 women in Jakarta and measured the diameters of their rings. The mean diameter was found to be 18.1 mm . Assuming that the diameters of women's rings in Jakarta have a normal distribution with standard deviation 1.1 mm , carry out a hypothesis test at the \(2 \frac { 1 } { 2 } \%\) level to determine whether the researchers' claim is justified.