CAIE S2 2013 June — Question 4

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2013
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

4 The masses, in grams, of a certain type of plum are normally distributed with mean \(\mu\) and variance \(\sigma ^ { 2 }\). The masses, \(m\) grams, of a random sample of 150 plums of this type were found and the results are summarised by \(\Sigma m = 9750\) and \(\Sigma m ^ { 2 } = 647500\).
  1. Calculate unbiased estimates of \(\mu\) and \(\sigma ^ { 2 }\).
  2. Calculate a 98\% confidence interval for \(\mu\). Two more random samples of plums of this type are taken and a \(98 \%\) confidence interval for \(\mu\) is calculated from each sample.
  3. Find the probability that neither of these two intervals contains \(\mu\).