WJEC Further Unit 2 2018 June — Question 5

Exam BoardWJEC
ModuleFurther Unit 2 (Further Unit 2)
Year2018
SessionJune
TopicChi-squared distribution

5. A life insurance saleswoman investigates the number of policies she sells per day. The results for a random sample of 50 days are shown in the table below.
Number of
policies sold
0123456
Number of days229121591
She sees the same fixed number of clients each day. She would like to know whether the binomial distribution with parameters 6 and 0.6 is a suitable model for the number of policies she sells per day.
  1. State suitable hypotheses for a goodness of fit test.
  2. Here is part of the table for a \(\chi ^ { 2 }\) goodness of fit test on the data.
    Number of policies sold0123456
    Observed229121591
    Expected0.2051.8436.912\(d\)\(e\)9.3312.333
    1. Calculate the values of \(d\) and \(e\).
    2. Carry out the test using a 10\% level of significance and draw a conclusion in context.
  3. What do the parameters 6 and 0.6 mean in this context?