CAIE S2 2009 November — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2009
SessionNovember
TopicLinear combinations of normal random variables
TypeSample 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 .