Similar Test Questions

Q1. 
A doctor takes a random sample of 100 patients and measures their intake of saturated fats in their food
and the level of cholesterol in their blood. The results are summarised in the table below.

Using a 5% level of significance, test whether or not there is an association between cholesterol level and
intake of saturated fats. State your hypotheses and show your working clearly.
(10)

Q2. A company receives telephone calls at random at a mean rate of 2.5 per hour.
(a)  Find the probability that the company receives
(i)  at least 4 telephone calls in the next hour,
(ii)  exactly 3 telephone calls in the next 15 minutes.
(5)
(b)  Find, to the nearest minute, the maximum length of time the telephone can be left unattended so that
the probability of missing a telephone call is less than 0.2
(3)
The company puts an advert in the local newspaper. The number of telephone calls received in a
randomly selected 2 hour period after the paper is published is 10

(c)  Test at the 5% level of significance whether or not the mean rate of telephone calls has increased.
State your hypotheses clearly.
(5)
 Q3.
The discrete random variable X has probability function

P(X = x) =

(a)  Find P(X = 2) and complete the table below.

(1)

Given that E(X) = 1.6

(b)  Find the value of a and the value of b.

(5)
Find (c)  P(0.5 < X < 3),

(d)  E(3X − 2).

(2)

(e)  Show that the Var(X) = 1.64

(3)

(f)  Calculate Var(3X − 2).

(2)
(Total 15 marks)

Q4. A researcher is investigating the distribution of orchids in a field. He believes that the Poisson
distribution with a mean of 1.75 may be a good model for the number of orchids in each square metre. He
randomly selects 150 non-overlapping areas, each of one square metre, and counts the number of
orchids present in each square.
The results are recorded in the table below.

He calculates the expected frequencies as follows

(a)  Find the value of r giving your answer to 2 decimal places.

(1)
The researcher will test, at the 5% level of significance, whether or not the data can be modelled by a
Poisson distribution with mean 1.75

(b)  State clearly the hypotheses required to test whether or not this Poisson distribution is a suitable
model for these data.
(1)
The test statistic for this test is 2.0 and the number of degrees of freedom to be used is 4

(c)  Explain fully why there are 4 degrees of freedom.

(2)
(d)  Stating your critical value clearly, determine whether or not these data support the researcher's belief.
(2)
The researcher works in another field where the number of orchids in each square metre is known to
have a Poisson distribution with mean 1.5

He randomly selects 200 non-overlapping areas, each of one square metre, in this second field, and
counts the number of orchids present in each square.
(e)  Using a Poisson approximation, show that the probability that he finds at least one square with
exactly 6 orchids in it is 0.506 to 3 decimal places.
(4)
 (Total for question = 10 marks)
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