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    10 ion involved writing an essay. Tn order to compare the time taken to write the essay by ree colleges. a sample of 12 students from college A and a sample of § students from college B were randomly selected. The times, £4 an fy, taken for these students to write the essay jo the nearest minute, and are summarised by were measured, correct B1,=257, BR=$62, ny=8. Ey Wf any required assumptions, calculate a 95% confi State, giving a reason, whether your confidence interval supports the statement that the population ican, for the two colleges, are equal, W ‘The amount of caffeine in a randomly selected cup of coffee dispensed by a machine has a normal distribution. The amount of caffeine in each of a random sample of 25 cups was measured. The sample mean was 110.4 mg and the unbiased estimate of the population variance was 50.42 mg" Calculate a 90% confidence interval for the mean amount of caffeine dispensed, [a 150 sheep, chosen from a large flock of sheep, were divided into two groups of 75. Over a fixed period, one group had their grazing controlled and the other group grazed treely. The gains in weight in ky, were recorded for each animal and the table below shows the sample means and the unbiased estimates ofthe population variances forthe two samples, Unbiased estimate of population variance ‘Controlled gra 19.14 2054 Five grazing 15,36 9.84 Sample mean Ie is required to test whether the popula n for sheep having their grazing controlled exceeds the population mean for sheep grazing freely by less than Skg. State, giving a reason, ifit is necessary for the validity of the test to assume that the two population variances are equal mM Stati plion, carry out the test al the 5% significance level 8] wg any other ass Part of a research study of identical twins who had been separated at birth involved a random sample ‘of 9 pairs, in which one twin hed been raised by the natural parents and the other by adoptive parents. The IQ scores of these twins were meastired, with the following results Twin pair 1t2[3]4]>s|[e][7]s]° TQ of owin mised by natural parents | 82 | 92 [irs [12 [ se | 95 [ne [ ss [ios TQof wi raised by adoptive parents | 92 | a8 | is [ 134 [ 97 | 94 [107 a8 [30 Ie may be assumed that the difference in 1Q scores has a normal distribution. ‘The mean IQ scores of tural parentsandhy adaptive pareats are denoted by Hy and, respectively nterval for iy, ~ Hy 1] separated twins raised by n Obtain a 90% confidence 0: means, State, giving a reas e of the researchers claimed that there was no evidence of a difference between the two population. . whether the contidence interval supports this eli fe) ‘At an International Festival 12 comedians had their Intelligence Quotients (IQs) measured. The 1Qs, x, of the comedians are summarised by E(x — 128) = 18 and E(x 128)? = 115. Assuming that these comedians form 4 random sample of all comedians, and stating any further assumption you need to ‘make, test atthe 5% significance level whether the mean IQ of comedians exceeds 128. 19) sntof body fat. Random Part of a study carried out on professional Sumo wrestlers involved meast ex, of each wrestler samples of Sekitori and Makushita wrestlers were selected and the body fat sured. The results are summarised in the following table. Sekiton_[ Makushita Sample size | _7 2 z 28.6 222 s 2oor_ | 20.16 In the table, ¥ denotes the sample mean and

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