OCR S2 2009 January — Question 4

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2009
SessionJanuary
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypePerform one-tailed hypothesis test

4 A television company believes that the proportion of adults who watched a certain programme is 0.14 . Out of a random sample of 22 adults, it is found that 2 watched the programme.
  1. Carry out a significance test, at the \(10 \%\) level, to determine, on the basis of this sample, whether the television company is overestimating the proportion of adults who watched the programme.
  2. The sample was selected randomly. State what properties of this method of sampling are needed to justify the use of the distribution used in your test.