OCR H240/02 2023 June — Question 12

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleH240/02 (Pure Mathematics and Statistics)
Year2023
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypeOne-tailed test critical region

12 A student has an ordinary six-sided dice. The student suspects that it is biased against six, so that when it is thrown, it is less likely to show a six than if it were fair. In order to test this suspicion, the student plans to carry out a hypothesis test at the 5\% significance level. The student throws the dice 100 times and notes the number of times, \(X\), that it shows a six.
  1. Determine the largest value of \(X\) that would provide evidence at the \(5 \%\) significance level that the dice is biased against six. Later another student carries out a similar test, at the 5\% significance level. This student also throws the dice 100 times.
  2. It is given that the dice is fair. Find the probability that the conclusion of the test is that there is significant evidence that the dice is biased against six.