Edexcel S2 — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypeExplain sampling frames and units

2. A driving instructor keeps records of all the learners she has taught. In order to analyse her success rate she wishes to take a random sample of 120 of these learners.
  1. Suggest a suitable sampling frame and identify the sampling units. She believes that only 1 in 20 of the people she teaches fail to pass their test in their first two attempts. She decides to use her sample to test whether or not the proportion is different from this.
  2. Using a suitable approximation and stating clearly the hypotheses she should use, find the largest critical region for this test such that the probability in each "tail" is less than \(2.5 \%\).
  3. State the significance level of this test.