Edexcel A Level Further Maths Statistics 4 (S4) June 2015 question paper 6686

The Sales Manager of a large chain of convenience stores is studying the sale of lottery tickets in her stores. She randomly selects 8 of her stores. From these stores she collects data for the total sales of lottery tickets in the previous January and July. The data are shown below

Use a paired t-test to determine whether or not there is evidence, at the 5% level of significance, that the mean sales of lottery tickets in this chain’s stores are higher in July than in January. You should state your hypotheses and show your working clearly.

State what assumption the Sales Manager needs to make about the sales of lottery tickets in her stores for the test in part (a) to be valid.

Fred is a new employee in a delicatessen. He is asked to cut cheese into 100 g blocks. A random sample of 8 of these blocks of cheese is selected. The weight, in grams, of each block of cheese is given below 94, 106, 115, 98, 111, 104, 113, 102

Calculate a 90% confidence interval for the standard deviation of the weights of the blocks of cheese cut by Fred.

Given that the weights of the blocks of cheese are independent,

state what further assumption is necessary for this confidence interval to be valid.

The delicatessen manager expects the standard deviation of the weights of the blocks of cheese cut by an employee to be less than 5 g. Any employee who does not achieve this target is given training.

Use your answer from part (a) to comment on Fred’s results.

A second employee, Olga, has just been given training. Olga is asked to cut cheese into 100 g blocks. A random sample of 20 of these blocks of cheese is selected. The weight of each block of cheese, x grams, is recorded and the results are summarised below.

Given that the assumption in part (b) is also valid in this case,

test, at a 10% level of significance, whether or not the mean weight of the blocks of cheese cut by Olga after her training is 100 g. State your hypotheses clearly.

As part of their research two sports science students, Ali and Bea, select a random sample of 10 adult male swimmers and a random sample of 13 adult male athletes from local sports clubs. They measure the arm span, x cm, of each person selected. The data are summarised in the table below

The students know that the arm spans of adult male swimmers and of adult male athletes may each be assumed to be normally distributed. They decide to share out the data analysis, with Ali investigating the means of the two distributions and Bea investigating the variances of the two distributions. Ali assumes that the variances of the two distributions are equal. She calculates the pooled estimate of variance, s_p²

Show that s_p² = 112.6 to 1 decimal place.

Ali claims that there is no difference in the mean arm spans of adult male swimmers and of adult male athletes.

Stating your hypotheses clearly, test this claim at the 10% level of significance.

Bea believes that the variances of the arm spans of adult male swimmers and adult male athletes are not equal.

Show that, at the 10% level of significance, the data support Bea’s belief. State your hypotheses and show your working clearly.

Ali and Bea combine their work and present their results to their tutor, Clive.

Explain why Clive is not happy with their research and state, with a reason, which of the tests in parts (b) and (c) is not valid.

A poultry farm produces eggs which are sold in boxes of 6. The farmer believes that the proportion, p, of eggs that are cracked when they are packed in the boxes is approximately 5%. She decides to test the hypotheses

To test these hypotheses she randomly selects a box of eggs and rejects H₀ if the box contains 2 or more eggs that are cracked. If the box contains 1 egg that is cracked, she randomly selects a second box of eggs and rejects H₀ if it contains at least 1 egg that is cracked. If the first or the second box contains no cracked eggs, H₀ is immediately accepted and no further boxes are sampled.

Show that the power function of this test is

Calculate the size of this test.

Given that p = 0.1

find the expected number of eggs inspected each time this test is carried out, giving your answer correct to 3 significant figures,

calculate the probability of a Type II error.

Given that p = 0.1 is an unacceptably high value for the farmer,

use your answer from part (d) to comment on the farmer’s test.

A researcher is investigating the accuracy of IQ tests. One company offers IQ tests that it claims will give any individual’s IQ with a standard deviation of 5 The researcher takes these tests 9 times with the following results 123, 118, 127, 120, 134, 120, 118, 135, 121

Find the sample mean, x –, and the sample variance, s², of these scores.

Given that any individual’s IQ scores on these tests are independent and have a normal distribution,

use the hypotheses

to test the company’s claim at the 5% significance level.

Gurdip works for the company and has taken these IQ tests 12 times. Gurdip claims that the sample variance of these 12 scores is s² = 8.17

Use this value of s² to calculate a 95% confidence interval for the variance of Gurdip’s IQ test scores. [You may use P(₁₁² > 3.816) = 0.975 and P(₁₁² > 21.920) = 0.025]

Assuming that ² = 25, comment on Gurdip’s claim.

A random sample X, X, X,..., X is taken from a population with mean and variance 3². A second random sample Y₁, Y₂, Y₃,..., Y_n is taken from a population with mean and variance , where the X and Y variables are all independent. A, B and C are possible estimators of , where

Show that two of A, B and C are unbiased estimators of and find the bias of the third estimator of .

Showing your working clearly, find which of A, B and C is the best estimator of .

The estimator

is an unbiased estimator of .

Find k in terms of n.

Show that D is also a consistent estimator of .

Find the least value of n for which D is a better estimator of than any of A, B or C.