AQA Further AS Paper 2 Statistics 2022 June — Question 6 6 marks

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleFurther AS Paper 2 Statistics (Further AS Paper 2 Statistics)
Year2022
SessionJune
Marks6
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypePoisson hypothesis test

6 The number of computers sold per day by a shop can be modelled by the random variable \(Y\) where \(Y \sim \operatorname { Po } ( 42 )\) 6
  1. State the variance of \(Y\) 6
  2. One month ago, the shop started selling a new model of computer.
    On a randomly chosen day in the last month, the shop sold 53 computers.
    Carry out a hypothesis test, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, to investigate whether the mean number of computers sold per day has increased in the last month.
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  3. Describe, in the context of the hypothesis test in part (b), what is meant by a Type II error.