(a) The heights of male students in a college are thought to be normally distributed with mean 170 cm and standard deviation 7. The heights of 5 male students from this college are measured and the sample mean was 174 cm.
Determine, at 5% level of significance, whether there is evidence that the mean height of the male students of this college is higher than 170 cm.
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(b) (i) The result of a fitness trial is a random variable X which is normally distributed with mean μ and standard deviation 2.4 . A researcher uses the results from a random sample of 90 trials to calculate a
98% confidence interval for μ . What is the width of this interval?
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(ii) Packets of fish food have weights that are distributed with standard deviation 2.3 g. A random sample of 200 packets is taken. The mean weight of this sample is found to be 99.2 g. Calculate a 99% confidence interval for the population mean weight.
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(c) (i) Explain the difference between a point estimate and an interval
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(ii) The daily takings, $ x, for a shop were noted on 30 randomly chosen days. The takings are summarized by Σ x=31 500 and
Σ x2=33 141 816 .
Calculate unbiased estimates of the population mean and variance of the shop’s daily taking. [4