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Hypothesis testing, significance testing, confidence intervals and power: Edexcel A‑Level Statistics questions

Every Edexcel A-Level Statistics exam question on H.15 Hypothesis testing, significance testing, confidence intervals and power, 2018–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.

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All 11 questions on Hypothesis testing, significance testing, confidence intervals and power, as a list
  1. June 2025, Statistical Inference, Q3 (9 marks): 3 Sedentary lifestyles are widely discussed as a possible contributor to increased health issues in later life. Sedentary behaviour is defined as any waking beh
  2. June 2025, Statistics in Practice, Q5 (19 marks): 5 Oseltamivir is the active ingredient in an antiviral medicine used to treat or prevent influenza (flu). The European Medicines Agency claims that a medicine c
  3. June 2025, Statistics in Practice, Q6 (10 marks): 6 A scientist wishes to research the ratio of male badgers to female badgers living wild in the UK. To investigate this, the scientist intends to collect data i
  4. June 2024, Statistical Inference, Q7 (15 marks): 7 In January 2023, Michael was working at a financial advisory firm in the North West of England. He was interested in investigating whether people living in Ma
  5. June 2023, Statistics in Practice, Q6 (24 marks): 6 In field hockey, some fouls result in the awarding of a penalty corner. A player then has the opportunity to score a goal from the penalty corner. A study of
  6. June 2022, Statistics in Practice, Q3 (19 marks): 3 Klazine is a researcher interested in nutrition. She believes that involving a child in preparing their own meal affects what they choose to eat at that meal.
  7. November 2021, Statistical Inference, Q2 (7 marks): 2 Mohamed grows courgettes on his farm. He knows that the weights, in grams, of courgettes grown on other nearby farms are distributed N(175, 22.0 2). Mohamed d
  8. November 2021, Statistical Inference, Q3 (8 marks): 3 Stewart is planning a survey of 85 randomly sampled business leaders in his industry. He believes that most business leaders in his industry would support the
  9. November 2021, Statistics in Practice, Q6 (8 marks): 6 (a) State the definition of a statistic. (2) A biscuit manufacturer claims that each packet contains, on average, 200 g of its biscuits. Lionel wants to test
  10. November 2020, Statistical Inference, Q1 (7 marks): 1 The weights at 3 months of age, in kg, of baby girls born in the UK are modelled by the normal distribution N(5.8, 0.742). Rose has recently looked up the wei
  11. June 2019, Statistical Inference, Q1 (6 marks): 1 As part of an investigation into marine pollution in a particular area, the mercury content in the muscles of a sample of 36 dolphins is measured. These 36 do

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