| Exam Board | Edexcel |
| Module | S2 (Statistics 2) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Session | January |
| Topic | Hypothesis test of a Poisson distribution |
2. The number of houses sold per week by a firm of estate agents follows a Poisson distribution with mean 2.5. The firm appoints a new salesman and wants to find out whether or not house sales increase as a result. After the appointment of the salesman, the number of house sales in a randomly chosen 4-week period is 14.
Stating your hypotheses clearly test, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, whether or not the new salesman has increased house sales.