| Exam Board | CAIE |
| Module | S2 (Statistics 2) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Session | November |
| Topic | Hypothesis test of a normal distribution |
2 The heights of a certain type of plant have a normal distribution. When the plants are grown without fertilizer, the population mean and standard deviation are 24.0 cm and 4.8 cm respectively. A gardener wishes to test, at the \(2 \%\) significance level, whether Hiergro fertilizer will increase the mean height. He treats 150 randomly chosen plants with Hiergro and finds that their mean height is 25.0 cm . Assuming that the standard deviation of the heights of plants treated with Hiergro is still 4.8 cm , carry out the test.