Interpret test conclusion or error

A question is this type if and only if it asks the student to state which type of error might have been made given a test result, or to explain whether a conclusion is justified based on test results.

4 questions

CAIE S2 2021 March Q6
6 It is known that \(8 \%\) of adults in a certain town own a Chantor car. After an advertising campaign, a car dealer wishes to investigate whether this proportion has increased. He chooses a random sample of 25 adults from the town and notes how many of them own a Chantor car.
  1. He finds that 4 of the 25 adults own a Chantor car. Carry out a hypothesis test at the 5\% significance level.
  2. Explain which of the errors, Type I or Type II, might have been made in carrying out the test in part (a).
    Later, the car dealer takes another random sample of 25 adults from the town and carries out a similar hypothesis test at the 5\% significance level.
  3. Find the probability of a Type I error.
    If you use the following lined page to complete the answer(s) to any question(s), the question number(s) must be clearly shown.
CAIE S2 2014 June Q6
6 Stephan is an athlete who competes in the high jump. In the past, Stephan has succeeded in \(90 \%\) of jumps at a certain height. He suspects that his standard has recently fallen and he decides to carry out a hypothesis test to find out whether he is right. If he succeeds in fewer than 17 of his next 20 jumps at this height, he will conclude that his standard has fallen.
  1. Find the probability of a Type I error.
  2. In fact Stephan succeeds in 18 of his next 20 jumps. Which of the errors, Type I or Type II, is possible? Explain your answer.
OCR MEI Paper 2 2022 June Q13
13 Records from the 1950s showed that 35\% of human babies were born without wisdom teeth. It is believed that as part of the evolutionary process more babies are now born without wisdom teeth. In a random sample of 140 babies, collected in 2020, a researcher found that 61 were born without wisdom teeth. The researcher made the following statement.
"This shows that the percentage of babies born without wisdom teeth has increased from \(35 \%\)."
  1. Explain whether this statement can be fully justified.
  2. Conduct a hypothesis test at the \(5 \%\) level to determine whether there is any evidence to suggest that more than \(35 \%\) of babies are now born without wisdom teeth.
AQA S3 2007 June Q3
3 Kutz and Styler are two unisex hair salons. An analysis of a random sample of 150 customers at Kutz shows that 28 per cent are male. An analysis of an independent random sample of 250 customers at Styler shows that 34 per cent are male.
  1. Test, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, the hypothesis that there is no difference between the proportion of male customers at Kutz and that at Styler.
  2. State, with a reason, the probability of making a Type I error in the test in part (a) if, in fact, the actual difference between the two proportions is 0.05 .