WJEC Further Unit 2 Specimen — Question 5

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

5. The manager of a hockey team studies last season's results and puts forward the theory that the number of goals scored per match by her team can be modelled by a Poisson distribution with mean 2.0. The number of goals scored during the season are summarised below.
Goals scored01234 or more
Frequency61115108
  1. State suitable hypotheses to carry out a goodness of fit test.
  2. Carry out a \(\chi ^ { 2 }\) goodness of fit test on this data set, using a \(5 \%\) level of significance and draw a conclusion in context.