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Mathematics (AS & A Level) · Oct / Nov 2019 · Paper 72 · Question 6

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The number of accidents per month, X, at a factory has a Poisson distribution. In the past the mean has been 1.1 accidents per month. Some new machinery is introduced and the management wish to test whether the mean has increased. They note the number of accidents in a randomly chosen month and carry out a hypothesis test at the 1% significance level.

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