A firm makes a certain type of battery-powered toy.The battery life is denoted by $$\(X\)$$ hours and the population mean of $$\(X\)$$ is supposed to be 12 .The Quality Control department wished to test whether the population mean of $$\(X\)$$ is actually less than 12.They tested a random sample of 50 of these toys and found that the sample mean, $$\(\bar{X}\)$$ ,was 11.4. (b)Show that the value $$\(\bar{X}=11.4\)$$ leads to rejection of the null hypothesis at the $$\(5 \%\)$$ significance level. [2] . . . . . . . .
Exam No:9709_s25_qp_65 Year:2025 Question No:7(b)
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6.4.3 recognise that a sample mean can be regarded as a random variable, and use the facts that
6.5.3 formulate hypotheses and carry out a hypothesis test concerning the population mean in cases where the population is normally distributed with known variance or where a large sample is used
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