CAIE S2 2005 November — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2005
SessionNovember
TopicApproximating the Poisson to the Normal distribution
TypeHypothesis test for single Poisson mean

3 Flies stick to wet paint at random points. The average number of flies is 2 per square metre. A wall with area \(22 \mathrm {~m} ^ { 2 }\) is painted with a new type of paint which the manufacturer claims is fly-repellent. It is found that 27 flies stick to this wall. Use a suitable approximation to test the manufacturer's claim at the \(1 \%\) significance level. Take the null hypothesis to be \(\mu = 44\), where \(\mu\) is the population mean.