Edexcel S2 2012 January — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2012
SessionJanuary
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypePerform one-tailed hypothesis test

2. David claims that the weather forecasts produced by local radio are no better than those achieved by tossing a fair coin and predicting rain if a head is obtained or no rain if a tail is obtained. He records the weather for 30 randomly selected days. The local radio forecast is correct on 21 of these days. Test David's claim at the \(5 \%\) level of significance. State your hypotheses clearly.