Skip to content
MathsGenie logo
Quick links
Open app

Course home

  1. A Level
  2. Maths OCR (MEI)
  3. Question bank

2.5 Statistical Hypothesis Testing

EasyMediumHard
12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455565758596061626364656667686970717273747576777879808182838485868788899091929394959697
Question 36

The mass of flour in bags packed by a factory is normally distributed with a mean of 1500 g and a standard deviation of 25 g.

a.

Find the probability that a randomly selected bag of flour has a mass of less than 1450 g.

[2]
b.

A quality inspector believes the bagging machine is under-filling and the mean mass is less than 1500 g.

State the null and alternative hypotheses for this test.

[1]
c.

A random sample of 16 bags is weighed and the mean mass is found to be 1485 g.

Test the inspector's belief at the 1% significance level.

[3]

2.5 Statistical Hypothesis Testing Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Maths
  3. /2.5 Statistical Hypothesis Testing