Edexcel S2 2015 June — Question 6

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2015
SessionJune
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeIdentify distribution and parameters

6. Past information at a computer shop shows that \(40 \%\) of customers buy insurance when they purchase a product. In a random sample of 30 customers, \(X\) buy insurance.
  1. Write down a suitable model for the distribution of \(X\).
  2. State an assumption that has been made for the model in part (a) to be suitable. The probability that fewer than \(r\) customers buy insurance is less than 0.05
  3. Find the largest possible value of \(r\). A second random sample, of 100 customers, is taken.
    The probability that at least \(t\) of these customers buy insurance is 0.938 , correct to 3 decimal places.
  4. Using a suitable approximation, find the value of \(t\). The shop now offers an extended warranty on all products. Following this, a random sample of 25 customers is taken and 6 of them buy insurance.
  5. Test, at the \(10 \%\) level of significance, whether or not there is evidence that the proportion of customers who buy insurance has decreased. State your hypotheses clearly.