AQA Further Paper 3 Statistics 2020 June — Question 5

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleFurther Paper 3 Statistics (Further Paper 3 Statistics)
Year2020
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypePoisson hypothesis test

5 Emily claims that the average number of runners per minute passing a shop during a long distance run is 8 Emily conducts a hypothesis test to investigate her claim.
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  1. State the hypotheses for Emily's test. 5
  2. Emily counts the number of runners, \(X\), passing the shop in a randomly chosen minute. The critical region for Emily's test is \(X \leq 2\) or \(X \geq 14\)
    During a randomly chosen minute, Emily counts 3 runners passing the shop.
    Determine the outcome of Emily's hypothesis test.
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  3. The actual average number of runners per minute passing the shop is 7 Find the power of Emily's hypothesis test, giving your answer to three significant figures.