CAIE S2 2017 November — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2017
SessionNovember
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

3 The masses, \(m \mathrm {~kg}\), of packets of flour are normally distributed. The mean mass is supposed to be 1.01 kg . A quality control officer measures the masses of a random sample of 100 packets. The results are summarised below. $$n = 100 \quad \Sigma m = 98.2 \quad \Sigma m ^ { 2 } = 104.52$$
  1. Test at the \(5 \%\) significance level whether the population mean mass is less than 1.01 kg .
  2. Explain whether it was necessary to use the Central Limit theorem in your answer to part (i).