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Test a minimum string length and interpret a strict boundary
A company sells balls of string. A manager claims average length is at least 300 m. A random sample of 100 balls gives and .
(i) Find unbiased estimates of the population mean and variance.
(ii) Test at 5% whether the manager’s claim is valid.
The process is improved and the new population variance is known to be 12.1 m². A new random sample of 100 balls has mean m. A test at 10% indicates that the manager’s claim is valid for this process.
(iii) Find the least possible , giving your answer to 2 decimal places.
CJC · Discussion · Question 8
Use a lower-tail test and distinguish a rounded cutoff from the first admissible grid value.