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A-Level MathematicsYear 2022Q2

6   Question 2 continued (b) Identify two limitations of Hamish’s study. (2) _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Hamish also obtains the PSQI scores for a randomly selected sample of 105 UK students. He finds that 80% of these students can be classified as ‘poor sleepers’. (c) Conduct a test to investigate whether there is evidence for a difference in the proportion of ‘poor sleepers’ between students in the UK and those in India. (6) _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Turn over 7   Question 2 continued The PSQI scores for these 105 students have mean 6.48 and standard deviation 1.71 (d) Construct a 95% confidence interval for the corresponding population mean PSQI score. (3) _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ The 95% confidence interval for the mean PSQI score for students in India was found to be (6.07, 6.83). (e) Using this information and the confidence interval calculated in (d), comment on the mean PSQI scores of the UK and India. (2) _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ (Total for Question 2 is 18 marks)

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Syllabus levelAdvanced Level (A-Level)
SubjectMathematics
Official MarksVariable (2–6 marks)