Sign test for median

A question is this type if and only if it requires performing a sign test to test a hypothesis about a population median, including finding critical regions or comparing data to a hypothesized median value.

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OCR S4 2017 June Q1
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1 A meteorologist claims that the median daily rainfall in London is 2.2 mm . A single sample sign test is to be used to test the claim, using the following hypotheses: \(\mathrm { H } _ { 0 }\) : a sample comes from a population with median 2.2, \(\mathrm { H } _ { 1 }\) : the sample does not come from a population with median 2.2.
30 randomly selected observations of daily rainfall in London are compared with 2.2, and given a '+' sign if greater than 2.2 and a '-' sign if less than 2.2. (You may assume that no data values are exactly equal to 2.2.) The test is to be carried out at the \(5 \%\) level of significance. Let the number of ' + ' signs be \(k\). Find, in terms of \(k\), the critical region for the test showing the values of any relevant probabilities.