Date | May Specimen paper | Marks available | 1 | Reference code | SPM.1.AHL.TZ0.9 |
Level | Additional Higher Level | Paper | Paper 1 | Time zone | Time zone 0 |
Command term | Comment | Question number | 9 | Adapted from | N/A |
Question
A manager wishes to check the mean mass of flour put into bags in his factory. He randomly samples 10 bags and finds the mean mass is 1.478 kg and the standard deviation of the sample is 0.0196 kg.
Find for this sample.
Find a 95 % confidence interval for the population mean, giving your answer to 4 significant figures.
The bags are labelled as being 1.5 kg mass. Comment on this claim with reference to your answer in part (b).
Markscheme
(M1)A1
[2 marks]
(1.463, 1.493) (M1)A1
Note: If used answer is (1.464, 1.492), award M1A0.
[2 marks]
95 % of the time these results would be produced by a population with mean of less than 1.5 kg, so it is likely the mean mass is less than 1.5 kg R1
[1 mark]