CAIE S2 2024 June — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2024
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

3 A student wishes to estimate the proportion, \(p\), of students at her college who have exactly one brother. She surveys a random sample of 50 students at her college and finds that 18 of them have exactly one brother. She calculates an approximate \(\alpha \%\) confidence interval for \(p\) and finds that the lower limit of the confidence interval is 0.244 correct to 3 significant figures. Find \(\alpha\) correct to the nearest integer.