CAIE S2 2010 November — Question 5

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2010
SessionNovember
TopicLinear combinations of normal random variables
TypeExpectation and variance with context application

5 The marks of candidates in Mathematics and English in 2009 were represented by the independent random variables \(X\) and \(Y\) with distributions \(\mathrm { N } \left( 28,5.6 ^ { 2 } \right)\) and \(\mathrm { N } \left( 52,12.4 ^ { 2 } \right)\) respectively. Each candidate's marks were combined to give a final mark \(F\), where \(F = X + \frac { 1 } { 2 } Y\).
  1. Find \(\mathrm { E } ( F )\) and \(\operatorname { Var } ( F )\).
  2. The final marks of a random sample of 10 candidates from Grinford in 2009 had a mean of 49. Test at the 5\% significance level whether this result suggests that the mean final mark of all candidates from Grinford in 2009 was lower than elsewhere.