Edexcel S2 2023 October — Question 5

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2023
SessionOctober
TopicHypothesis test of a Poisson distribution

  1. A supermarket receives complaints at a mean rate of 6 per week.
    1. State one assumption necessary, in order for a Poisson distribution to be used to model the number of complaints received by the supermarket.
    2. Find the probability that, in a given week, there are
      1. fewer than 3 complaints received by the supermarket,
      2. at least 6 complaints received by the supermarket.
    In a randomly selected week, the supermarket received 12 complaints.
  2. Test, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, whether or not there is evidence that the mean number of complaints is greater than 6 per week.
    State your hypotheses clearly. Following changes made by the supermarket, it received 26 complaints over a 6-week period.
  3. Use a suitable approximation to test whether or not there is evidence that, following the changes, the mean number of complaints received is less than 6 per week. You should state your hypotheses clearly and use a 5\% significance level.