CAIE S2 2014 November — Question 5

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2014
SessionNovember
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypePerform one-tailed hypothesis test

5 It is known that when seeds of a certain type are planted, on average \(10 \%\) of the resulting plants reach a height of 1 metre. A gardener wishes to investigate whether a new fertiliser will increase this proportion. He plants a random sample of 18 seeds of this type, using the fertiliser, and notes how many of the resulting plants reach a height of 1 metre.
  1. In fact 4 of the 18 plants reach a height of 1 metre. Carry out a hypothesis test at the \(8 \%\) significance level.
  2. Explain which of the errors, Type I or Type II, might have been made in part (i). Later, the gardener plants another random sample of 18 seeds of this type, using the fertiliser, and again carries out a hypothesis test at the \(8 \%\) significance level.
  3. Find the probability of a Type I error.