Edexcel S2 — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypeTwo-tailed test critical region

3. A primary school teacher finds that exactly half of his year 6 class have mobile phones. He decides to investigate whether the proportion of pupils with mobile phones is different from 0.5 in the year 5 class at his school. There are 25 pupils in the year 5 class.
  1. State the hypotheses that he should use.
  2. Find the largest critical region for this test such that the probability in each "tail" is less than \(2.5 \%\).
  3. Determine the significance level of this test. He finds that eight of the year 5 pupils have mobile phones and concludes that there is not sufficient evidence of the proportion being different from 0.5
  4. Stating the new hypotheses clearly, find if the number of year 5 pupils with mobile phones would have been significant if he had tested whether or not the proportion was less than 0.5 and used the largest critical region with a probability of less than \(5 \%\).
    (3 marks)