Edexcel AS Paper 2 Specimen — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleAS Paper 2 (AS Paper 2)
SessionSpecimen
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypePerform one-tailed hypothesis test

2. The discrete random variable \(X \sim \mathrm {~B} ( 30,0.28 )\)
  1. Find \(\mathrm { P } ( 5 \leq X < 12 )\). Past records from a large supermarket show that \(25 \%\) of people who buy eggs, buy organic eggs. On one particular day a random sample of 40 people is taken from those that had bought eggs and 16 people are found to have bought organic eggs.
  2. Test, at the \(1 \%\) significance level, whether or not the proportion \(p\) of people who bought organic eggs that day had increased. State your hypotheses clearly.
  3. State the conclusion you would have reached if a \(5 \%\) significance level had been used for this test. \section*{(Total for Question 2 is 8 marks)}