OCR S3 2006 January — Question 1

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2006
SessionJanuary
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

1 In order to judge the support for a new method of collecting household waste, a city council arranged a survey of 400 householders selected at random. The results showed that 186 householders were in favour of the new method.
  1. Calculate a 95\% confidence interval for the proportion of all householders who are in favour of the new method. A city councillor said he believed that as many householders were in favour of the new method as were against it.
  2. Comment on the councillor's belief.