CAIE S2 2016 June — Question 2

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

2 In the past, the mean annual crop yield from a particular field has been 8.2 tonnes. During the last 16 years, a new fertiliser has been used on the field. The mean yield for these 16 years is 8.7 tonnes. Assume that yields are normally distributed with standard deviation 1.2 tonnes. Carry out a test at the \(5 \%\) significance level of whether the mean yield has increased.
\(31 \%\) of adults in a certain country own a yellow car.
  1. Use a suitable approximating distribution to find the probability that a random sample of 240 adults includes more than 2 who own a yellow car.
  2. Justify your approximation.