AQA Further AS Paper 2 Statistics 2020 June — Question 7

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleFurther AS Paper 2 Statistics (Further AS Paper 2 Statistics)
Year2020
SessionJune
TopicChi-squared distribution

7 A restaurant has asked Sylvia to conduct a \(\chi ^ { 2 }\) test for association between meal ordered and age of customer. 7
  1. State the hypotheses that Sylvia should use for her test. 7
  2. Sylvia correctly calculates her value of the test statistic to be 44.1
    She uses a \(5 \%\) level of significance and the degrees of freedom for the test is 30
    Sylvia accepts the null hypothesis.
    Explain whether or not Sylvia was correct to accept the null hypothesis.
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  3. State in context the correct conclusion to Sylvia's test.