Edexcel S3 2023 January — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2023
SessionJanuary
TopicChi-squared distribution

3 A mobile phone company offers an insurance policy to its customers when they purchase a mobile phone. The company conducted a survey on the age of the customers and whether or not claims were made. A random sample of 1200 customers from this company was investigated for 2020 and the results are shown in the table below.
Claim made in 2020No claim made in 2020Total
\multirow{3}{*}{Age}17-20 years24176200
21-50 years48652700
51 years and over14286300
Total8611141200
The data are to be used to determine whether or not making a claim is independent of age.
  1. Calculate the expected frequencies for the age group 51 years and over that
    1. made a claim in 2020
    2. did not make a claim in 2020 The 4 classes of customers aged between 17 and 50 give a value of \(\sum \frac { ( O - E ) ^ { 2 } } { E } = 7.123\) correct to 3 decimal places.
  2. Test, at the \(1 \%\) level of significance, whether or not making a claim is independent of age. Show your working clearly, stating your hypotheses, the degrees of freedom, the test statistic and the critical value used.