Edexcel S2 2013 January — Question 6

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2013
SessionJanuary
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypePerform one-tailed hypothesis test

6. (a) Explain what you understand by a hypothesis.
(b) Explain what you understand by a critical region. Mrs George claims that 45\% of voters would vote for her.
In an opinion poll of 20 randomly selected voters it was found that 5 would vote for her.
(c) Test at the \(5 \%\) level of significance whether or not the opinion poll provides evidence to support Mrs George's claim. In a second opinion poll of \(n\) randomly selected people it was found that no one would vote for Mrs George.
(d) Using a \(1 \%\) level of significance, find the smallest value of \(n\) for which the hypothesis \(\mathrm { H } _ { 0 } : p = 0.45\) will be rejected in favour of \(\mathrm { H } _ { 1 } : p < 0.45\)