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A-LevelMathematicsProbability and statisticsOct/Nov 2024Paper 6 Q36 Marks

A factory owner models the number of employees who use the factory canteen on any day by the distribution B(25, p). In the past the value of p was 0.8. A new menu is introduced in the canteen and the owner wants to test whether the value of p has increased. On a randomly chosen day he notes that the number of employees who use the canteen is 23.

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About This A-Level Mathematics Question

This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Mathematics (9709) Oct/Nov 2024 examination, Paper 6 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Probability and statistics and is worth 6 marks.

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