LONG TEST

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

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“The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.” – Charles Caleb
Colton
I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write the chosen letter on the space provided.
NO ERASURE
1. A variable where the information or data can take infinitely many values and can also be obtained
by measuring?
A. Qualitative variable C. Continuous variable
B. Quantitative variable D. Discrete Variable

2. Which of the following statement describe a continuous variable?

A. The average distance travelled by a jeep in a week
B. The number of students present in a class
C. The number of girls wearing eyeglasses

3. What are the possible values of a random variable when a coin is tossed once?
A. Tail (T) and Head (H)
B. The number of dots 1,2,3,4,5,6
C. Tail and Tail (TT), and Head and Head (HH)
D. The pair of even number of dots (2,2),(2,4),(2,6),(4,2),(4,4),(4,6),(6,2),(6,4) and (6,6)
4. A fair coin is tossed three times and the sequence of heads (H) and tails (T) is observed. What is the
probability that no heads will appear?
A. 1/8 B. 3/8 C. 5/8 D. 2/3
5. What would be the probability of picking a face card (i.e. a king, queen, or jack?
A. P(Face) = 4/52 = 1/13 C. P(Face) = 12/52 = 3/13
B. P(Face) = 6/52 = 3/26 D. P(Face) = 8/52 = 2/13
6. What is the probability of rolling, on a fair dice “a number greater than 4”?
A. P(greater than 4) = 0 C. P(greater than 4)=P(5 or 6)=2/6=1/3
B. P(greater than 4) = ½ D. P(greater than 4)=P(1,,2,3,4,5,6)= 6/6 = 1

For items 7-10.

Cardo sells a maximum of 3 tickets per customer. Let T be the number of tickets sold to a random
customer. Below is the probability distribution of T.

T 0 1 2 3
P(T) 0.20 ? 0.40 0.23

7. Which probability value would satisfy the given probability distribution?

A. 0.16 B. 0.17 C. 0.18 D. 0.19
8- 9. What is the mean of the probability distribution?

9 – 11. What is the variance of the probability distribution?

12.What would be the best interpretation you can create given the mean of the probability distribution?
A. Most customers will purchase 3 tickets.
B. Cardo can expect to have more tickets sold.
C. A group of 10 customers will purchase exactly 29 tickets.
D. If we look at a large number of customers, then each customer, on the average, will have
purchased about 1.66 tickets.
13.What is the first step in finding the variance of a discrete probability distribution?
A. Calculate the standard deviation
B. Find the mean of the probability distribution
 C. Subtract the mean from each value of the random variable X
D. Multiply the square of the difference of X and the mean by each value of the random variable

14.What is “P(a<x<b)”?
A. The area to the left of a.
B. The area to the right of a.
C. The area between a and b.
D. The area to the right of b.

15.Evaluate the score of the student in a biology test where the equivalent z-score is 0.98. The mean of
the test was 88 with a standard deviation of 9.5.
A. 95 B. 96 C. 97 D. 98
16. Which of the following illustrates a systematic sampling method?
A. A researcher conducted a survey of 50 randomly selected workers from each of these categories:
high school graduate, with undergraduate degrees, with master’s degree, and with doctoral
degree.
B. A researcher interviewed all freshmen in each of 15 randomly selected public schools in Surigao
del Norte.
C. A researcher doing a research work on students’ reaction of the newly implemented curriculum
and interviewed every 10th student entering the gate.
D. A researcher selected a sample of n = 120 from a population 850 using the Table of Random
Numbers.
17. A randomly selected sample of 400 students at a university with 15-week semesters was asked
whether or not they think the semester should be shortened to 14 weeks (with longer classes).
Forty-six percent (46%) of the 400 students surveyed answered "yes." Which one of the following
statements about the number 46% is correct?
A. It is a sample statistic C. It is a population parameter
B. It is a random variable D. It is a quantitative discrete variable
18.Which of the following is NOT a discrete variable?
A. The number of coins that match when three coins are tossed at once.
B. The number of non-defective I-phone
C. The weight of box delivered by the grab driver last December
D. The number of vehicles owned by Ambrocio family
19.Which of the following is NOT a continuous variable?
A. The number of arrivals at an emergency room between 8am to 8pm
B. The temperature of a cup of tea served at a restaurant
C. The weight in pounds of a bag of powdered milk as relief good last month
D. The average height of “rubber trees” along Rovera Street

20.Which of the following values is not the value of the probability of the random variable?
A. 1.05 B. 0.5 C. 0.15 D. 0.05
21.What do you call a portion or representative of population?
A. Parameter B. Population C. Sample D. Statistic
22.A randomly selected 400 students out of 9000 students at a university with 15-week semesters was
asked whether or not they think the semester should be shortened to 14 weeks (with longer classes).
Forty-six percent (46%) of the 400 students surveyed answered "yes." What is the sample?
A. 400 students B. 9000 students C. 15-week semesters D. 46% who answered
“yes”
23.Which of following is true about the mean of the sample means?
A. The mean of the sample mean is equal to the population mean.
B. The mean of the sample mean is equal to the population mean divided by the population
variance.
C. The mean of the sample mean is equal to the square of population mean.
D. The mean of the sample mean is equal to the square root of population mean.
24.It is the process of using sample statistics to draw conclusions about true population parameters.
A. statistical inference C. sampling
B. the scientific method D. descriptive statistics
25. It is the universe or "totality of items or things" under consideration.
a. sample B. population C. parameter D. statistic
26. It is the portion of the universe that has been selected for analysis.
A .sample B. frame C. parameter D. statistic
27. It is a summary measure that is computed to describe a characteristic from only a sample of the
population.
A. parameter B. census C. statistic D. scientific method
28. Which of the following is most likely a parameter as opposed to a statistic?
A. The average score of the first five learners completing an assignment
B. The proportion of females registered to vote in a county
C. The average height of people randomly selected from a database
D. The proportion of trucks stopped yesterday that were cited for bad brakes
29.The teacher randomly selects 20 boys and 15 girls from a batch of learners to be members of a
group that will go to a field trip.
A. Stratified Sampling C. Cluster Sampling
B. Simple Random Sampling D. Convenience Sampling
30. A sample of 10 mice are selected at random from a set of 40 mice to test the effect of a certain
medicine.
A. Stratified Sampling C. Cluster Sampling
B. Simple Random Sampling D. Convenience Sampling

31.The people in a certain seminar are all members of two of five groups are asked what they think
about the president.
A. Stratified Sampling C. Cluster Sampling
B. Simple Random Sampling D. Convenience Sampling
32.A salesclerk for a brand of clothing asks people who comes up to her whether they own a piece of
article from her brand. (Non-probability Sampling)
A. Stratified Sampling C. Voluntary Sampling
B. Purposive Sampling D. Convenience Sampling
33. A brand manager of a toothpaste asks ten dentists that have clinic closest to his office whether they
use a particular brand of toothpaste.
A. Stratified Sampling C. Voluntary Sampling
B. Purposive Sampling D. Convenience Sampling
34. What is the area under the normal curve?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3
35.Which of the following is the curve symmetrical to?
A. Mean B. Variance C. Standard Deviation D. Area
36.What is the area when the z-score is 0.00?
A. 0.00 B. 0.50 C. 0.10 D. 100
37.Find the area when the z-score is above 1.92?
A. 0.0274 B. 0.9726 0 C. 0.5129 D. 0.0329
38.Which of the following z-score makes the notation a TRUE statement. 𝑃(𝑧<𝑍<3)=0.1574
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3
39- 40. Given that 𝑋 is normally distributed with 𝜇=85 and 𝜎=6. Find the z-score when 𝑥=97.

41– 42. What is the probability of 𝑃(𝑋<208) when 𝜇=178 and 𝜎=15?

43. Assuming that the heights of college male students are normally distributed with a mean of 69
inches and standard deviation of 3 inches. If a student is chosen at random, what is the
probability that his height is less than 65 inches?
A. 0.0918 B. 0.3707 C. 0.9082 D. 0.9991
44. The weights of the contents of a cereal box are normally distributed with a mean weight of 20
ounces and a standard deviation of 0.07 ounce. Boxes in the lower 6.3% do not meet the
minimum weight requirements and must be repackaged. What is the minimum weight
requirement for a cereal box?
A. 20 oz B. 19.99 oz C. 19.89 oz D. 19.79 oz
45. In a large section of a statistics class, the points for the final exam are normally distributed with a
mean of 72 and a standard deviation of 9. A student will receive an A grade if he/she is in the top
10%. What will be the possible lowest score on the final exam that would qualify a student for an A?
A. 72 B. 84 C. 60 D. 54

46 – 47. What is the value of the 82nd percentile?

 48. Solving for 𝑃48, its z-score lies between what two z-scores?
A. 𝑧=−0.48 and 𝑧=−0.49 C. 𝑧=−0.47 and 𝑧=−0.48
B. 𝑧=−0.04 and 𝑧=−0.05 D. 𝑧=−0.05 and 𝑧=−0.06

49- 55. Assume 𝑋 is normally distributed with a mean of 15 and a standard deviation of 3. Determine the
value for 𝑥 that solves each of the following:

49– 51. P (X< x) = 0.2810

52 – 55. P(x<X<21) = 0.8185

PREPARED:

KATHERINE P. MAGSINO
SUBJECT TEACHER

NOTED BY:
MARIEL G. ABANTE
HT III/ TIC