Question 1
16 marks
Which device do students prefer? Probabilities and a test
- Statistics and probability
(a)
9 marks
(i) Tablet row total over the grand total.
(ii) The cell for 11–13 and mobile phone.
(iii) Given the student is 17–18, the sample space is the 348 students in that age group.
(iv) Add the tablet total and the 14–16 total, and subtract the overlap (224).
(b)
1 mark
State the hypotheses about association.
(c)
1 mark
For a table the degrees of freedom are
(d)
5 marks
(i) The calculator gives the test statistic.
(ii) The -value.
(iii) (equivalently ), so reject . There is sufficient evidence that preferred device and age group are not independent.

