CAIE S2 2015 November — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2015
SessionNovember
TopicMeasures of Location and Spread
TypeConfidence intervals for population mean

3 Jagdeesh measured the lengths, \(x\) minutes, of 60 randomly chosen lectures. His results are summarised below. $$n = 60 \quad \Sigma x = 3420 \quad \Sigma x ^ { 2 } = 195200$$
  1. Calculate unbiased estimates of the population mean and variance.
  2. Calculate a \(98 \%\) confidence interval for the population mean.