CAIE S2 2015 November — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2015
SessionNovember
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

6 Parcels arriving at a certain office have weights \(W \mathrm {~kg}\), where the random variable \(W\) has mean \(\mu\) and standard deviation 0.2 . The value of \(\mu\) used to be 2.60 , but there is a suspicion that this may no longer be true. In order to test at the 5\% significance level whether the value of \(\mu\) has increased, a random sample of 75 parcels is chosen. You may assume that the standard deviation of \(W\) is unchanged.
  1. The mean weight of the 75 parcels is found to be 2.64 kg . Carry out the test.
  2. Later another test of the same hypotheses at the \(5 \%\) significance level, with another random sample of 75 parcels, is carried out. Given that the value of \(\mu\) is now 2.68 , calculate the probability of a Type II error.