Edexcel S2 2004 June — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2004
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypePerform one-tailed hypothesis test

3. Brad planted 25 seeds in his greenhouse. He has read in a gardening book that the probability of one of these seeds germinating is 0.25 . Ten of Brad's seeds germinated. He claimed that the gardening book had underestimated this probability. Test, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, Brad's claim. State your hypotheses clearly.