IB Maths AI SL 4.11 Hypothesis testing Question Bank
Practise IB Mathematics SL/HL 4.11 by applying hypothesis testing methods to exam-style questions.
- Syllabus
- First assessment 2021
- Course
- Mathematics: applications and interpretation SL
- Level
- SL
Practise IB Mathematics SL/HL 4.11 by applying hypothesis testing methods to exam-style questions.
Xavie conducted a study to see if there is a relationship between the price of an apartment, y, and its distance, x, from the city centre of Melbourne.
They took a random sample of six typical apartments along a train line in the city. Xavie obtained the data shown in the following table.

A plot of these data is seen in the following graph.

Write down the alternative hypothesis.
μA=μB
Find the p-value for this test.
p=0.0224(0.0223977…)
Note: Award A1 for 0.022 (2sf)
Award A1 for an answer of p=0.0265(0.0265017…), from use of unpooled GDC settings.
State the conclusion of the test. Justify your answer.
0.0223977…<0.05 R1
(there is sufficient evidence to) reject the null hypothesis
Note: Do not award R0A1.
State one additional assumption Xavie has made about the distributions to conduct this test.
(the two populations are) normally distributed
A1
Note: Do not accept "independent" as that applies to the samples, not the populations.