| Exam Board | CAIE |
| Module | S2 (Statistics 2) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Session | November |
| Topic | Linear combinations of normal random variables |
| Type | Sample size determination |
2 The lengths of sewing needles in travel sewing kits are distributed normally with mean \(\mu \mathrm { mm }\) and standard deviation 1.5 mm . A random sample of \(n\) needles is taken. Find the smallest value of \(n\) such that the width of a \(95 \%\) confidence interval for the population mean is at most 1 mm .