CAIE S2 2016 November — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2016
SessionNovember
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypeFind sample size for test

2 A die has six faces numbered \(1,2,3,4,5,6\). Manjit suspects that the die is biased so that it shows a six on fewer throws than it would if it were fair. In order to test her suspicion, she throws the die a certain number of times and counts the number of sixes.
  1. State suitable null and alternative hypotheses for Manjit's test.
  2. There are no sixes in the first 15 throws. Show that this result is not significant at the \(5 \%\) level.
  3. Find the smallest value of \(n\) such that, if there are no sixes in the first \(n\) throws, this result is significant at the 5\% level.