Edexcel FS1 AS 2023 June — Question 4

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleFS1 AS (Further Statistics 1 AS)
Year2023
SessionJune
TopicChi-squared distribution

  1. Table 1 below shows the number of car breakdowns in the Snoreap district in each of 60 months.
\begin{table}[h]
Number of car
breakdowns
012345
Frequency1211191431
\captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Table 1}
\end{table} Anja believes that the number of car breakdowns per month in Snoreap can be modelled by a Poisson distribution. Table 2 below shows the results of some of her calculations. \begin{table}[h]
Number of car breakdowns01234\(\geqslant 5\)
Observed frequency (O)1211191431
Expected frequency ( \(\mathbf { E } _ { \mathbf { i } }\) )9.929.644.34
\captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Table 2}
\end{table}
  1. State suitable hypotheses for a test to investigate Anja's belief.
  2. Explain why Anja has changed the label of the final column to \(\geqslant 5\)
  3. Showing your working clearly, complete Table 2
  4. Find the value of \(\frac { \left( O _ { i } - E _ { i } \right) ^ { 2 } } { E _ { i } }\) when the number of car breakdowns is
    1. 1
    2. 3
  5. Explain why Anja used 3 degrees of freedom for her test. The test statistic for Anja's test is 6.54 to 2 decimal places.
  6. Stating the critical value and using a \(5 \%\) level of significance, complete Anja's test.