AQA S3 2007 June — Question 3

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2007
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypeInterpret test conclusion or error

3 Kutz and Styler are two unisex hair salons. An analysis of a random sample of 150 customers at Kutz shows that 28 per cent are male. An analysis of an independent random sample of 250 customers at Styler shows that 34 per cent are male.
  1. Test, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, the hypothesis that there is no difference between the proportion of male customers at Kutz and that at Styler.
  2. State, with a reason, the probability of making a Type I error in the test in part (a) if, in fact, the actual difference between the two proportions is 0.05 .