A.

All employees working from different

PRELIM companies
B. All employees at ABC Company
QUIZ 1 C. The 100 selected employees
1. Ages of students in TIP is an example of what D. All employees of Accounting Dept. of ABC
type of data? Company
A. Discrete 7.
B. Nominal 2 3 3 5 5 6 85 10 10 11
C. Ordinal 2 3 7 3 7 9 2 6 2
D. Continuous 2 3 3 5 5 7 86 10 10 11
2. 3 3 8 3 9 0 4 7 2
2 3 4 5 6 7 10 10 10 11
2 3 3 5 5 6 85 10 10 11 4 5 1 4 1 0 1 5 9 7
2 3 7 3 7 9 2 6 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 10 11 11
2 3 3 5 5 7 86 10 10 11 8 6 2 4 9 5 1 5 0 9
3 3 8 3 9 0 4 7 2 3 3 4 5 6 8 10 10 11 12
2 3 4 5 6 7 10 10 10 11 0 6 9 6 9 2 2 6 0 0
4 5 1 4 1 0 1 5 9 7 nd
Based on the above data find the 2 percentile.
2 3 4 5 6 7 10 10 11 11
8 6 2 4 9 5 1 5 0 9 ANS: 22.02
3 3 4 5 6 8 10 10 11 12
0 6 9 6 9 2 2 6 0 0 8. Number of cars sold in one year by a large
Based on the above data what is the percentile sporting goods store is an example of what type
for 49? of data?
A. Qualitative
ANS: 69 B. Quantitative
3. A year ago, Angela began working at a 9. Ratings of eight international plays (excellent,
computer store. Her supervisor asked her to good, fair, poor) is an example of what type of
keep a record of the number of sales she made data?
each month. A. Continuous
The following data set is a list of her sales for B. Ordinal
the last 12 months: C. Nominal
D. Discrete
34, 47, 1, 15, 57, 24, 20, 11, 19, 50, 28, 37 10. Rankings of basketball players is an example of
what type of data?
ANS: 28.5 A. Discrete
4. Number of sandwiches sold each day by a B. Ordinal
canteen on a college campus is an example of C. Continuous
what type of data? D. Nominal
A. Ordinal 11. Nationality of people who are living in USA is an
B. Continuous example of what type of data?
C. Discrete A. Discrete
D. Ordinal B. Ordinal
5. Classification of programs (BSA, FM, HRDM, & C. Nominal
LSCM) is an example of what type of data? D. Continuous
A. Qualitative 12. Colors of uniforms in a store is an example of
B. Quantitative what type of data?
6. A survey form will be given to 100 employees A. Quantitative
randomly selected from Accounting Dept. of B. Qualitative
ABC Company. What is the population?
13. A survey form will be given to 100 employees E. 59-62
randomly selected from Accounting Dept. of 17. Water temperatures of six swimming pools in
ABC Company. What is the sample? Jeddah on a given day are an example of what
A. All employees working from different type of data?
companies A. Ordinal
B. All employees at ABC Company B. Continuous
C. All employees of Accounting Dept. at ABC C. Discrete
Company D. Nominal
D. The 100 selected employees 18. Ages of people working in a company is an
example of what type of data?
A. Ordinal
14. Number of soft-drinks sold each day by a sari- B. Continuous
sari store is an example of what type of data? C. Nominal
A. Continuous D. Discrete
B. Ordinal 19. Marital status of an employee in a large
C. Nominal company is an example of what type of data?
D. Discrete A. Qualitative
15. The following data represent the grades of 14 B. Quantitative
students in statistic class: 20. Capacity (in litters) of six dams in the Philippines
65, 63, 68, 59, 74, 59, 68, 61, 64, 60, 69, 72, 55, is an example of what type of data?
64 A. Nominal
B. Discrete
Interval Frequency
C. Ordinal
55-58
D. Continuous
59-62
21. Twenty bottles of water were randomly
63-66
selected from a large collection of bottles in
67-70
Pepsi Cola’s warehouse. The large collection of
71-74
Which interval contains the upper quartile bottles is referred to as the
(Q3)? A. Sample
A. 63-66 B. Parameter
B. 67-70 C. Statistics
C. 71-74 D. Population
D. 55-58 22. Twenty bottles of water were randomly
16. The following data represent the grades of 14 selected from a large collection of bottles in
students in statistic class: Pepsi Cola’s warehouse. These twenty bottles
65, 63, 68, 59, 74, 59, 68, 61, 64, 60, 69, 72, 55, are referred to as the
64 A. Sample
B. Statistics
Interval Frequency C. Population
55-58 D. Parameter
59-62 23. Weights of fish caught in the West Philippine
63-66 Sea is an example of what type of data?
67-70 A. Qualitative
71-74 B. Quantitative
Which interval contains median? 24. Number of bikes rented each day by a bike
A. 71-74 store is an example of what type of data?
B. 63-66 A. Nominal
C. 55-58 B. Continuous
D. 67-70 C. Ordinal
 D. Discrete Female 187 21 12 220
25. What kind of data is “amount of money paid for Total 322 72 17 411
the tuition fee”? The student is chosen at random, find the
A. Quantitative-Continuous probability of getting someone who is a regular
B. Quantitative-Discrete player or professional player? Round your
C. Qualitative answer to three decimal places
D. Interval A. 0.256
B. 0.153
C. 0.217
D. 0.708
5. A ticket is drawn at random from a bag
containing tickets numbered from 1 to 40. The
probability that the selected ticket has a
number which is a multiple of 4 is
QUIZ 2 A. 1/40
B. 3/5
1. …………. Determine their favorite food in the C. 4/10
canteen. The results of his survey are shown in D. 1/4
the table 6. Cards bearing numbers 2 to 20 are placed in a
bag and mixed thoroughly. A card is taken out
Favorite Food Number of Officemates
Shawarma 4 from the bag at random. The probability that
Burger 5 the number on the card taken out is an odd
Pizza 9 number, is
Fries 18 A. 1/4
Spaghetti 4 B. 1/20
What is the probability of shawarma being an C. 9/19
employee’s favorite food in the canteen? D. 1/19
A. 1/10 7. The events X and Y are mutually exclusive. If
B. 1/9 P(X) = 0.3 and P(Y) = 0.4, what is P(X and Y)?
C. 3/25 A. 0
D. 1/40 B. 0.7
2. The events are you pick two jacks when two C. 0.5
cards are drawn from a deck and the 1 st card is D. 0.12
not replaced before the 2 nd card is drawn. 8. A card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52
Identify if the events are dependent or playing cards. The probability that the card will
independent. not be a queen is
A. Dependent A. 3/4
B. Independent B. 1/4
3. A card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 C. 1/13
cards. The probability of an eight of hearts is D. 12/13
A. 1/52 9. Event A: A green candy is selected from a
B. 1/13 package with 30 colored candles and eaten.
C. 4/13
D. 4/12 Event B: A violet candy is selected from the
4. The table lists the online playing habits of group same package and eaten.
of college students.
Identify if the events are dependent or
Gender Non- Regular Professional Total independent.
Player Player Player
A. Independent
Male 135 51 5 191
 B. Dependent 17. The letters of the word ACCOUNTING are placed
10. A particular result of an experiment is called: at random in a row. The probability of getting a
A. Outcome vowel is
B. Trial A. 1/2
C. Compound Event B. 4/10
D. Simple Event C. 7/10
11. The events are you pick two kings when two D. 3/10
cards are drawn from a deck and the 1 st card is 18. The following data are from the Civil Registrar
replaced before the 2nd card is drawn. Identify if Table of Mortality.
the events are dependent or independent.
Age Number of Surviving
A. Independent
0 10,000,000
B. Dependent
20 9,664,994
12. In a can, there are 8 blue, 7 red and 6 green
40 9,241,359
balls. One ball is picked up randomly. What is
70 5,592,012
the probability that it is neither blue nor green?
What is the probability that a 20-year-old will
A. 3/4
survive to be 70?
B. 1/3
A. .407
C. 8/21
B. .559
D. 9/21
C. .579
13. The probability of getting a clubs card from a
D. .421
well shuffled deck is
19. When the occurrence of one event has no effect
A. 1/13
on the probability of the occurrence of another
B. 3/4
event, the events are called:
C. 12/13
A. Mutually Exclusive
D. 1/4
B. Dependent
14. What is the probability of getting a sum of 9
C. Equally Likely
from two throws of a dice?
D. Independent
A. 1/8
20. The total events to throw three dice
B. 1/9
simultaneously is
C. 1/12
A. 6
D. 1/6
B. 36
15. The events having no experimental outcomes in
C. 216
common is called:
D. 12
A. Exhaustive Events
B. Mutually Exclusive Events
C. Equally Likely Events
D. Independent Events
16. One hundred people were asked, “Are in favor
with the anti-terror law?” Of the 33 that
answered “yes” to the question, 14 were male.
Of the 67 that answered “no” to the question,
six were male. If one person is selected at
random, what is the probability that this person
answered “yes” or was a male?
A. 0.13
B. 0.39
C. 0.67
D. 0.53
 probability that a teenage girl has a sugar level
greater than 200.
A. 0.1587
B. 0.3419
C. 0.2138
D. 0.8413
5. You have a sample one value from a uniform
distribution with a =10 and b = 20.
What is the prob. That the value will be
between 15 and 18?
A. 40%
B. 10%
C. 20%
D. 30%

6. Which of the ff: statements is CUMULATIVE

MIDTERM Probability?
A. The probability of exactly 3 heads in 6 flips
QUIZ 3 of a coin.
B. The probability that there are exactly 4
1. The shape of the uniform distribution is people with type O+ blood in sample of 10
A. Bell C. The probability that the accumulated
B. Circular annual rainfall in a certain city next year will
C. Rectangle be 18 inches.
D. Spiked D. The probability that a randomly selected
2. Personality test scores are normally distributed woman’s height is 67 inches or less.
with a mean of 90 and SD of 20. Each score is 7. One year, the distribution of salaries of a PBA
found to be 70. Find the z-score corresponding player had mean 1,600,000 and SD 700,000.
to this value. Find the approxi. Probability that the average
A. 0 salary of the 100 PBA players that year
B. -2 exceeded 1,100,000.
C. -1 A. Approximately 0
D. 1 B. .2357
3. Compute the shaded area under standard C. .7357
normal curve. D. Approximately 1
8. Compute the probability of z occurring
A. 0
.
1
2
9
2
B. 0
.8489
C. 0.0212
D. 0.1504
4. According to the health report distribution
teenage girls is approximately mean 170 and SD
30. Levels above 200 warrant. Find the
 A. 0.9332 15. You have a sample one value from a uniform
B. 0.0918 distribution with a = 10 and b = 20.
C. 0.0668
D. 0.9082 What is the probability that the value will be
9. Shipping company already encountered that the between 15 and 18?
distribution of the number of baggages mean A. 40%
15.5 and SD 3.6. What is the probability that B. 20%
every week the shipping will lose than 20 C. 30%
baggages? D. 10%
A. 0.3944 16. Shipping company already encountered that the
B. 0.8944 distribution of the number of baggages that get
C. 0.4040 lost per week from different trips is
D. 0.1056 approximately normal with mean = 15.5 and SD
10. According to the survey the salaries of faculties = 3.6. What is the probability that every week
in the higher education mean 32,000 and SD the shipping will lose more than 20 baggages?
3,000. If you will select one faculty at random, A. 0.1056
find the probability that he/she will earn more B. 0.8944
than 36,000. C. 0.4040
A. 0.0918 D. 0.3944
B. 0.9082
C. 0.4040
D. 0.1056 17. The lengths of infections of COVID 19 to
11. Figure below represents which of the ff: humans are normally distributed with a mean of
A. Uniform 268 days and a standard deviation of 15 days.
B. Negative experimental Find the probability that COVID 19 will last for
C. Exponential more than 300 days.
D. Normal A. 0.3189
12. Compute the area using the standard normal B. 0.9834
curve between z = 0 and z = 3. C. 0.2375
A. 0.0010 D. 0.0166
B. 0.4641 18. The lengths of infections of COVID 19 to
C. 0.4987 humans are normally distributed with a mean of
D. 0.9987 268 days and a standard deviation of 15 days.
13. You have a sample value uniform distribution Find the probability that COVID 19 will last for
with a =20 and b=40. more than 250 days.
what is the probability that the value will be A. 0.1591
between 21 and 38? B. 0.0606
A. 85% C. 0.0066
B. 90% D. 0.1151
C. 95% 19. Shipping company already encountered that the
D. 80% distribution of the number of baggages that get
14. The average number of push ups a military arms lost per week from different trips is
daily is 300, with SD of 50. Probability at most approximately normal with mean = 15.5 and SD
320 push ups? = 3.6. What is the probability that every week
A. 0.0082 the shipping will lose between 10 and 20
B. 0.9918 baggages?
C. 0.6554 A. 0.1056
D. 0.3446 B. 0.8314
C. 0.3944
 D. 0.4040 approximately normal with mean = 15.5 and SD
20. The average score of the BSA students in Law I = 3.6. What is the probability that every week
is 105 with a standard deviation of 15. What is the shipping will lose less than 20 baggages?
the standardized (or z-score) of a student with a A. 0.3944
score of 93? B. 0.1056
A. -12 C. 0.8944
B. 12 D. 0.4040
C. -8 26. According to survey the salaries of faculties in
D. -4 the higher education institutions are normally
21. Last year the accountancy students took the distributed with mean = P32,000 and SD =
qualifying exam. For the Taxation I of this test, P3,000. If you will select one faculty at random,
the mean was 425 and the standard deviation find the probability that he/she will earn less
was 110. Based on this information what is the than P28,000.
probability that the students would get a score A. 0.2113
between 350 and 550? B. 0.9827
A. 68.45% C. 0.0918
B. 37.55% D. 0.9981
C. 31.55%
D. 62.45%

27. Prelim scores are normally distributed with a

22. What is the area under a conditional Cumulative mean of 110 and a standard deviation of 25. An
density function? individual’s Prelim score is found to be 80. Find
A. Infinity the z-score corresponding to this value.
B. 0 A. 1.2
C. Changes with CDF B. 2.1
D. 1 C. -2.1
23. Random samples of size 36 are taken from an D. -1.2
infinite population whose mean is 90 and 28. The figure below represents which of the
standard deviation is 18. Find the mean and following distributions?
sampling distribution of sample means.
A. 90 and 3
B. 90 and 2
C. 90 and 18
D. 36 and 2
24. Compute the shaded area under the standard
normal curve.
A. Exponential
B. Negative Exponential
C. Uniform
D. Normal

A. 0.3438
B. 0.309 QUIZ 4
C. 0.6562
D. 1.309 1. The statement below is an example of what
25. Shipping company already encountered that the error?
distribution of the number of baggages that get
lost per week from different trips is
 There is a fire, but the smoke detector doesn’t 5. When the degrees of freedom for the t-
go off. distribution increases the distribution
A. Type I and II Error approaches the ___________
B. There is no error A. Binomial distribution
C. Type I error B. Normal distribution
D. Type II Error C. Value of zero for the mean
2. The margin of error of a confidence interval D. T-distribution
increases as 6. Mr. Z owns a hotel would like to determine
A. The confidence level decreases whether or not the mean age of the hotel’s
B. The sample mean increases guests is over 24. If so, he plans to alter the
C. The population standard deviation room assignments. If he concludes the mean
increases age is over 24 when it is not, he makes a ____
D. The sample size increases error. If he concludes the mean age is not over
3. The following statements are true about 24 when it is, he makes a ____ error.
standard of error except for: A. Type I; Type II
A. The standard error is the estimated B. Type II; Type II
standard deviation of the sampling C. Type I; Type I
distribution for the statistic. D. Type II; Type I
B. The standard error increases as the sample
size(s) increases.
C. The standard error measures, roughly, the
average difference between the statistic 7. Identify which of the following statements is
and the population parameter. true and false.
D. The standard error can never be a negative
number. Statement I. The p-value is the probability of
4. According to research a minimum wage earner rejecting your null hypothesis
can earn an average of P4,500 during Christmas
season. A random sample of minimum wage Statement II. In a given sample, a 50%
earner gave a sample average of P3,975, and a confidence interval for the mean is narrower
95% confidence interval was found to be P3,525 than a 90% confidence interval for the mean.
< µ < P4,425. This confidence level is A. Both statements are False
interpreted to mean that B. Only statement II is True
A. Because our specific confidence interval C. Both statements are True
does not contain the value P4,500 there is a D. Only statement I is True
95% probability that the true average 8. The confidence level for a confidence interval
Christmas season earnings is not P4,500 for a µ is
B. If the research were to be repeated many A. The probability that individuals in the
times, there is a 95% probability that they population have values that fall into the
true Christmas season is not P4,500 as the interval
researcher claims B. The probability the procedure provides an
C. If we repeat our research many times, then interval that covers the sample mean
about 95% of our confidence intervals will C. The probability of making a Type I error if
contain the true value of the earnings of the interval is used to test a null hypothesis
minimum wage earners about the population mean
D. There is a 95% probability that the true D. The probability the procedure provides an
average earnings are between P3,525 and interval that covers the population mean
P4,425 for all minimum wage earners
9. According to HR Dept 12% of all employees B. A type II error
received a very good rating in performance C. The power of the study
evaluation. In a sample of 155 employees, it is D. The significance level of the test
found that 21 made an A. What is the test 15. Santa Claus want to test Ho: µ ≤ 53 vs Ha: µ >
statistic for testing the true proportion is 12% 53. What will be the result if the conclude that
A. 0.011 the mean is greater than 53 when its true value
B. 0.577 is really 55?
C. 0.533 A. None of these are correct
D. 0.751 B. He made a Type I error
10. In random sampling of 4,000 employees, you C. He made a Type II error
compute a 95% confidence interval to estimate D. He made a correct decision
the mean sugar consumed by accounting 16. Mr. Z want to test the significance of the
employees. You decide to compute another population proportion and your p-value is
95% confidence interval using a different 0.184. given a 10% level of significance, which
sample, this time only 1,000 employees. What of the following is the best conclusion?
change would you expect from the first A. Accept null hypothesis
confidence interval to the second? B. Reject alternative hypothesis
A. The margin of error will decrease. C. Accept alternative hypothesis
B. The margin of error will be 2 times as wide D. Reject null hypothesis
C. The margin of error will be 4 times as wide 17. What will be the P-value if the test statistic is z =
D. The confidence interval will be smaller 2.75, the critical value is z = 2.326.
11. The following statements are true about A. Equal to the significance level
hypothesis tests except for B. Less than the significance level
A. Conclusions are statements about the C. Larger than the significance level
population represented by the samples D. None of these
B. Hypothesis tests are only valid when the 18. If the confidence level decreases, while holding
sample is representative of the population the sample size the same, what will happen to
for the question of interest the length of confidence interval.
C. Hypothesis are statements about the A. The population standard deviation
population represented by the samples increases.
D. Hypothesis are statements about the B. The confidence level decreases
sample (or samples) from the population C. The sample mean increases
12. Mr X have 122 M&M and 19 of them are red. D. The sample size increases
What is a 95% confidence interval for the true 19. Compute the one-sample t-test using the
proportion of red M&M? following data:
A. (0.103, 0.230) n = 5 × = 3.871 s = 0.679
B. (0.085, 0.199) The null hypothesis is µ = 5.0 is ______
C. (0.156, 0.647) A. Rejected at the 5% level; rejected at the 1%
D. (0.092, 0.220) level.
13. What is the P-value if test statistic in the left B. Accepted at the 5% level; accepted at the
area is 0.375 using a right tail test? 1% level
A. 0.750 C. Accepted at the 5% level; rejected at the 1%
B. 0.375 level
C. 0.625 D. Rejected at the 5% level; accepted at the
D. 0.1885 1% level
14. It is significance test based on a small sample 20. The point estimate for the population mean is
may not produce a statistically significant result also called?
even if the true value differs substantially from A. Critical z-value
the null value B. Confidence level
A. A type I error
 C. Sample mean A. 1.311
D. Margin of error B. 1.96
21. Compute the critical z-value for an 85% C. 1.645
confidence interval? D. 1.699
A. .975 26. The Ho and Ha are statements about_______
B. 1.44 A. Sample statistics
C. .8023 B. It depends – sometimes population
D. 1.04 parameters and sometimes sample
22. You can say that a result is statistically statistics.
significant if C. Sample parameters
A. The p-value is less or equal to the D. Population parameters
significance level 27. Mr. X conducted hypothesis that using a = 0.05.
B. The p-value is larger than the significance Which of the following p-values would the null
level hypothesis be rejected?
C. The null hypothesis is true A. 0.055
D. The alternative hypothesis is true B. 0.060
C. 0.041
D. 0.100
28. Based on the following hypothesis which
23. Ho: µ = 25, following would have a p-value that is the same
Ha: µ ≠ 25 whether the x is 44 or 46?
P-value = 0.041
I. Ho: µ = 45
Level of significance
H1: µ ≠ 45
Based on the ff: above data, which of the
II. Ho: µ = 45
following actions is right to take?
H1: µ > 45
A. All of these III. Ho: µ = 45
B. Not sufficient information to decide H1: µ < 45
C. Reject null hypothesis IV. Ho: µ = 46
D. Fail to reject null hypothesis H1: µ ≠ 46
24. Sarawat conducted a research about how A. II and III
estimate the proportion of employees on their B. I
company who agree with statement. “The labor C. IV
union is an effective organization for expressing D. I and IV
the needs of employees to the management.” 29. A bio chemical researcher plants 25 plots with a
He will use 95% confidence interval and you new variety of rice. The average yield for these
would like the margin of error 0.05 or less. plots is sample mean = 150 bushels per acre.
According to the previous years, it has been Assume that the yield per acre for the new
noted that the 32% of the employees agree variety of rice follows a normal distribution with
with the statement. The minimum sample size unknown mean µ and s = 10 bushels. A 90%
required is approximately. confidence interval for µ is
A. 22 A. 150 ± 16.45
B. 1795 B. 150 ± 3.29
C. 271 C. 150 ± 2.00
D. 335 D. 150 ± 3.42

25. Mr Y want to find the 90% confidence interval

for the mean of a population with unknown
population standard deviation. The sample size
is 30. Compute the critical value.