CAIE S2 2013 November — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2013
SessionNovember
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

2 Heights of a certain species of animal are known to be normally distributed with standard deviation 0.17 m . A conservationist wishes to obtain a \(99 \%\) confidence interval for the population mean, with total width less than 0.2 m . Find the smallest sample size required.