OCR S3 2013 January — Question 6

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2013
SessionJanuary
TopicChi-squared distribution

6 A large population of plants consists of five species \(A , B , C , D\) and \(E\) in the proportions \(p _ { A } , p _ { B } , p _ { C } , p _ { D }\) and \(p _ { E }\) respectively. A random sample of 120 plants consisted of \(23,14,24,27\) and 32 of \(A , B , C , D\) and \(E\) respectively. Carry out a test at the \(10 \%\) significance level of the null hypothesis that the proportions are \(p _ { \mathrm { A } } = p _ { \mathrm { B } } = 0.15 , p _ { \mathrm { C } } = p _ { \mathrm { D } } = 0.25\) and \(p _ { \mathrm { E } } = 0.2\).