CAIE S2 2014 June — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2014
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

3 The lengths, in centimetres, of rods produced in a factory have mean \(\mu\) and standard deviation 0.2. The value of \(\mu\) is supposed to be 250 , but a manager claims that one machine is producing rods that are too long on average. A random sample of 40 rods from this machine is taken and the sample mean length is found to be 250.06 cm . Test at the \(5 \%\) significance level whether the manager's claim is justified.