OCR MEI AS Paper 2 Specimen — Question 10

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleAS Paper 2 (AS Paper 2)
SessionSpecimen
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypePerform one-tailed hypothesis test

10 A company operates trains. The company claims that \(92 \%\) of its trains arrive on time. You should assume that in a random sample of trains, they arrive on time independently of each other.
  1. Assuming that \(92 \%\) of the company's trains arrive on time, find the probability that in a random sample of 30 trains operated by this company
    1. exactly 28 trains arrive on time,
    2. more than 27 trains arrive on time. A journalist believes that the percentage of trains operated by this company which arrive on time is lower than \(92 \%\).
  2. To investigate the journalist's belief a hypothesis test will be carried out at the \(1 \%\) significance level. A random sample of 18 trains is selected. For this hypothesis test,
    • state the hypotheses,
    • find the critical region.