CAIE S2 2019 June — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2019
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

3 It is claimed that, on average, a particular train journey takes less than 1.9 hours. The times, \(t\) hours, taken for this journey on a random sample of 50 days were recorded. The results are summarised below. $$n = 50 \quad \Sigma t = 92.5 \quad \Sigma t ^ { 2 } = 175.25$$
  1. Calculate unbiased estimates of the population mean and variance.
  2. Test the claim at the \(5 \%\) significance level.