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INTERNATIONAL A-LEVEL
FURTHER MATHEMATICS
(9665/FM04) Unit FS2 Statistics

Wednesday 17 January 2024 07:00 GMT Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes

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• For this paper you must have the OxfordAQA Booklet of Formulae and
Statistical Tables (enclosed). Question Mark
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1 A company produces a games computer called Alpha.

The company releases a new games computer called Beta.

When Alpha computers and Beta computers are in use, the company claims that Beta
computers use on average less energy per hour than Alpha computers.

A random sample of 150 Alpha computers is taken and the amount of energy, in kJ,
used in 1 hour X is recorded.

For this sample

x = 87.5 and s = 36.2

A random sample of 120 Beta computers is taken and the amount of energy, in kJ, used
in 1 hour X is recorded.

For this sample

x = 75.9 and s = 27.4

Test the company’s claim using the 1% level of significance.

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2 The discrete random variable X has probability distribution box

x –1 2 5 7

P ( X = x) 0.1 0.2 0.6 0.1

The moment generating function of X is M X ( t )

2 (a) Use differentiation to find the value of M′X ( 0 )

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2 (c) Hence find Var ( X )

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3 The scores on a Mathematics test have a normal distribution. box

A random sample of four students is taken and their scores are

16 22 30 44

Construct a 98% confidence interval for the population mean test score.

Give your values to one decimal place.

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4 Chione is studying the lifetime in days of a particular type of moth. box

Chione claims that the population standard deviation for the lifetime is 5 days.

She takes a random sample of 101 moths. For this sample the standard deviation for
the lifetime of the moths is 5.6 days.

4 (a) Chione’s sample is used to test her claim. The 2 distribution is used for the hypothesis
test. State a necessary assumption for the hypothesis test.
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4 (b) Test Chione’s claim, using the 5% level of significance.

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4 (c) Chione is also studying the lifetime in days of a particular type of butterfly. box

She takes a random sample of 51 butterflies. For this sample the standard deviation of
the lifetime of the butterflies is 5.9 days.

She claims that the population variance of the lifetime of the butterflies is greater than the
population variance of the lifetime of the moths.

The lifetimes of the butterflies and the moths are independent.

Test Chione’s claim, using the 5% level of significance.

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5 The number of errors made each day by the employees of a company can be modelled box
by a normal distribution.

Each employee participates in a training course designed to reduce the number of errors
they make.

The company takes a random sample of seven employees and records the number of
errors they each make on a randomly selected day before they have participated in the
training course.

The company also records the number of errors the same seven employees each make
on a randomly selected day after they have participated in the training course.

The results are given in the following table.

Number of errors

Employee Before training After training

1 12 4

2 21 5

3 8 8

4 7 6

5 9 12

6 10 9

7 13 10

Using the 5% level of significance, investigate whether the employees make fewer
errors in a day after they have participated in the training course.
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6 Ayegbeni models the mass in kilograms of adult female African bush elephants using a box
normal distribution with standard deviation 300 kg

He takes a random sample of n African bush elephants and uses it to construct a 95%
confidence interval of width 58.8 kg for the population mean mass of adult female
African bush elephants.

6 (a) Find the value of n

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6 (b) Rashida constructs a 99% confidence interval for the population mean mass of adult
female African bush elephants using Ayegbeni’s data.

Find the width of Rashida’s confidence interval.

Give your answer to three significant figures.

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6 (c) The sample mean of Ayegbeni’s sample is 4450 kg box

Using a 1% level of significance, Rashida conducts a hypothesis test with her

confidence interval and the hypotheses

H0 : = 4500
H1 : ≠ 4500

State with a reason whether Rashida rejects the null hypothesis.

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7 A hypothesis test is carried out to test for association between time of day and number of box
snacks eaten during the working hours of a large office.

The expected frequencies calculated for the test are given in the following table.

Number of snacks eaten

0 1 2

Morning 11.44 8.8 1.76

Time of day
Afternoon 14.56 11.2 2.24

7 (a) State the hypotheses for the test.

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7 (b) Explain why the number of degrees of freedom for the hypothesis test is equal to 1
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7 (c) Write down the formula used to calculate the test statistic for this test.
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7 (d) The test statistic is calculated correctly to be 5.05 given to three significant figures. box

The hypothesis test is carried out using the 5% level of significance.

Explain whether the null hypothesis will be rejected.

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8 The random variables A , B , X 1 , X 2 , X 3 , …, X n are independent, unbiased box

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estimators of the mean μ of a population and each have variance

8 (a) Show that

1  n 
R=  A + B + ∑ Xi 
n+2 i =1 
is an unbiased estimator of μ
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8 (b) Show that R is a consistent estimator of μ

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8 (c) The random variable box

1 n
X=
n
∑ Xi
i =1

is also an unbiased estimator of μ

A student claims that X is a more efficient estimator than R

By calculating the relative efficiency, determine whether the student is correct.

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9 The random variable X has a normal distribution with population mean μ and box

population variance 10.24

A random sample of six observations is taken from X

The random sample is used to carry out a hypothesis test at the 2% level of significance
with the hypotheses
H0 : =8
H1 : ≠8

9 (a) Find the critical region of the hypothesis test.

Give the values in your answer to three decimal places.

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9 (b) Subsequently μ is found to be 11.4 box

Find the power of the hypothesis test.

Give your answer to two significant figures.

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10 The lifetime T billion years of a particular type of star is to be modelled by a normal box

distribution.

A random sample of 50 stars is taken and the data is shown in the grouped
frequency table below.

t t ≤ 9.25 9.25 < t ≤ 9.5 9.5 < t ≤ 9.75 t > 9.75

Frequency 6 22 13 9

The summary statistics for the data are:

2
∑ t = 475 and ∑ (t − t ) = 1.96

Investigate the goodness of fit of the normal distribution to this data using the 1% level
of significance.
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