CAIE S2 2016 June — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2016
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

1 The time taken for a particular type of paint to dry was measured for a sample of 150 randomly chosen points on a wall. The sample mean was 192.4 minutes and an unbiased estimate of the population variance was 43.6 minutes \({ } ^ { 2 }\). Find a \(98 \%\) confidence interval for the mean drying time.