CAIE Further Paper 4 2020 November — Question 4

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleFurther Paper 4 (Further Paper 4)
Year2020
SessionNovember
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

4 Members of the Sprints athletics club have been taking part in an intense training scheme, aimed at reducing their times taken to run 400 m . For a random sample of 9 athletes from the club, the times taken, in seconds, before and after the training scheme are given in the following table.
Athlete\(A\)\(B\)\(C\)\(D\)\(E\)\(F\)\(G\)\(H\)\(I\)
Time before48.848.250.349.649.448.947.650.348.4
Time after47.947.849.649.149.648.947.749.148.1
The organiser of the training scheme claims that on average an athlete's time will be reduced by at least 0.3 seconds. Test at the 10\% significance level whether the organiser's claim is justified, stating any assumption that you make.