CAIE S2 2021 November — Question 5

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2021
SessionNovember
TopicApproximating the Binomial to the Poisson distribution
TypeState Poisson approximation with justification

5
  1. The proportion of people having a particular medical condition is 1 in 100000 . A random sample of 2500 people is obtained. The number of people in the sample having the condition is denoted by \(X\).
    1. State, with a justification, a suitable approximating distribution for \(X\), giving the values of any parameters.
    2. Use the approximating distribution to calculate \(\mathrm { P } ( X > 0 )\).
  2. The percentage of people having a different medical condition is thought to be \(30 \%\). A researcher suspects that the true percentage is less than \(30 \%\). In a medical trial a random sample of 28 people was selected and 4 people were found to have this condition. Use a binomial distribution to test the researcher's suspicion at the \(2 \%\) significance level.