Edexcel S3 2016 June — Question 6

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2016
SessionJune
TopicChi-squared distribution

6. An airport manager carries out a survey of families and their luggage. Each family is allowed to check in a maximum of 4 suitcases. She observes 50 families at the check-in desk and counts the total number of suitcases each family checks in. The data are summarised in the table below.
Number of suitcases01234
Frequency6251261
The manager claims that the data can be modelled by a binomial distribution with \(p = 0.3\)
  1. Test the manager's claim at the \(5 \%\) level of significance. State your hypotheses clearly.
    Show your working clearly and give your expected frequencies to 2 decimal places.
    (8) The manager also carries out a survey of the time taken by passengers to check in. She records the number of passengers that check in during each of 100 five-minute intervals. The manager makes a new claim that these data can be modelled by a Poisson distribution. She calculates the expected frequencies given in the table below.
    Number of passengers012345 or more
    Observed frequency540311860
    Expected frequency16.5329.75\(r\)\(s\)7.233.64
  2. Find the value of \(r\) and the value of \(s\) giving your answers to 2 decimal places.
  3. Stating your hypotheses clearly, use a \(1 \%\) level of significance to test the manager's new claim.