CAIE S2 2024 March — Question 2

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

2 A random sample of 250 people living in Barapet was chosen. It was found that 78 of these people owned a BETEC phone.
  1. Calculate an approximate \(98 \%\) confidence interval for the proportion of people living in Barapet who own a BETEC phone.
  2. Manjit claims that more than \(40 \%\) of the people living in Barapet own a BETEC phone. Use your answer to part (a) to comment on this claim.