CAIE S2 2020 November — Question 5

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2020
SessionNovember
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypePoisson hypothesis test

5 The number of absences per week by workers at a factory has the distribution \(\operatorname { Po } ( 2.1 )\).
  1. Find the standard deviation of the number of absences per week.
  2. Find the probability that the number of absences in a 2-week period is at least 2 .
  3. Find the probability that the number of absences in a 3-week period is more than 4 and less than 8 .
    Following a change in working conditions, the management wished to test whether the mean number of absences has decreased. They found that, in a randomly chosen 3-week period, there were exactly 2 absences.
  4. Carry out the test at the \(10 \%\) significance level.
  5. State, with a reason, which of the errors, Type I or Type II, might have been made in carrying out the test in part (d).