CAIE S2 2009 November — Question 5

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2009
SessionNovember
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

5 The masses of packets of cornflakes are normally distributed with standard deviation 11 g . A random sample of 20 packets was weighed and found to have a mean mass of 746 g .
  1. Test at the \(4 \%\) significance level whether there is enough evidence to conclude that the population mean mass is less than 750 g .
  2. Given that the population mean mass actually is 750 g , find the smallest possible sample size, \(n\), for which it is at least \(97 \%\) certain that the mean mass of the sample exceeds 745 g .