OCR MEI S1 2013 June — Question 5

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2013
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypePerform one-tailed hypothesis test

5 A researcher is investigating whether people can identify whether a glass of water they are given is bottled water or tap water. She suspects that people do no better than they would by guessing. Twenty people are selected at random; thirteen make a correct identification. She carries out a hypothesis test.
  1. Explain why the null hypothesis should be \(p = 0.5\), where \(p\) represents the probability that a randomly selected person makes a correct identification.
  2. Briefly explain why she uses an alternative hypothesis of \(p > 0.5\).
  3. Complete the test at the \(5 \%\) significance level.