Statistics and Probability Midterm Exam

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STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

MIDTERM EXAMINATION
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Multiple Choice: Read the statements carefully and choose the letter of the best answer.
1. If two coins are tossed once, which is NOT a possible value of the random variable for the number of heads?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3
2. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?
A. Length of wire ropes C. Amount of paint used in repainting the building
B. Number of soldiers in the troop D. Voltage of car batteries
3. Which formula gives the probability distribution shown by the table?
A. P(X) = X B. P(X) = 1/X C. P(X) = X/3 D. P(X) = X/5

4. How many ways are there in tossing two coins once? \
A. 4 B. 3 C. 2 D. 1
5. It is a numerical quantity that is assigned to the outcome of an experiment.
A. random variable C. probability
B. variable D. probability distribution
6. It is the central or average of its corresponding probability mass function.
A. mean C. standard deviation
B. variance D. probability
7. Determine the Mean or Expected Value of random variable below.
A. 2.53 C. 2.55
B. 2.54 D. 2.56
8. What is the mean outcome if a pair of die is rolled once?
A. 1.5 B. 2.5 C. 3.5 D. 4.5
9. Find the mean of the probability distribution involving the random variable X that gives the number of heads that appear
after tossing four coins once.
A. 4 B. 3 C. 2 D. 1
10. The probabilities that a printer produces 0,1,2, and 3 misprints are 42%, 28%, 18%, and 12% respectively. What is the mean
value of the random variable?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
11. The random variable X, representing the number of nuts in a chocolate bar has the following probability distribution. What
is the mean?
A. 1.5 B. 1.3 C. 1.7 D. 1.9

12. These are two values that describe how scattered or spread out the scores are from the mean value of the random variable.
A. variance and standard deviation
B. mean and probability distribution
C. probability and statistics
D. mean and variance
13. Which of the following illustrations represents normal distribution?
A. C.
B. D.
14. What is another name for normal distribution?
A. Gaussian distribution C. Bernoulli’s distribution
B. Poisson distribution D. Probability distribution
15. What is the total area in the distribution under the normal curve?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3
16. Which of the following is a parameter of normal distribution?
A. mean C. mean and standard deviation
B. standard deviation D. none of the above
17. The graph of a normal distribution is symmetrical about the ________.
A. mean C. mean and standard deviation
B. standard deviation D. none of the above
18. What percent of the area under a normal curve is within 2 standard deviations?
A. 68.3% B. 95.4% C. 99.7% D. 100%
19. How many standard deviations are there in each inflection point?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3
20. Which of the following denotes the standard normal distribution?
A. A B. X C. Y D. Z
21. A random variable X has a mean of 12 and a standard deviation of 3.2. What is the corresponding z-score for x = 8?
A. -1.25 B. -1.50 C. -1.75 D. -2.25
22. What is the area under the normal curve if the z-score given is 2.14?
A. 0.9830 B. 0.9834 C. 0.9838 D. 0.9842
23. What is the z-score if the area under the normal curve is 0.0475?
A. -1.66 B. -1.67 C. 1.66 D. 1.67
24. What is the area under the normal curve between the z-scores -1.99 and 1.56?
A. 0.9173 B. 0.9317 C. 0.9369 D. 0.9639
25. What is the area of the P(Z > 2.58) using the standard normal curve?
A. 0.0049 B. 0.0051 C. 0.9949 D. 0.9951
26. In an achievement test, the mean score of normally distributed values is 70 and the standard deviation is 12. What is the
percentage of students who got a score of 85 and above?
A. 0.1056 B. 0.1075 C. 0.8925 D. 0.8944
27. What is the value of 70th percentile in a standard normal distribution?
A. 0.51 B. 0.52 C. 0.61 D. 0.62
28. It refers to the entire group that is under study or investigation.
A. population B. sample C. random sampling D. subset
29. It is a subset taken from a population, either by random or nonrandom sampling techniques.
A. population B. sample C. random sampling D. lottery sampling
30. What sampling technique in which members of the population are listed and samples are selected in intervals called sample
intervals.
A. systematic sampling B. lottery sampling
C. stratified random sampling D. quota sampling
31. It is sometimes called area sampling, it applies on a geographical basis.
C. stratified random sampling D. cluster sampling
32. It refers to a part of the sampling technique where each sample point has an equal chance of being selected.
C. random sampling D. quota sampling
33-34.Complete the table below using mean (μ) = 5.

Probability Distribution Table of Random Variable X
35. Compute for the variance and standard deviation of the Probability Distribution table of the Random Variable X.
A. Variance = 5; Standard Deviation = 2.24
B. Variance = 4; Standard Deviation = 3.24
C. Variance = 3; Standard Deviation = 4.24
D. Variance = 2; Standard Deviation = 5.24
36-40. Classify the following random variables as discrete or continuous.

36. The weight of the professional wrestlers
37. The number of winners in lotto for each day
38. The area of lots in an exclusive subdivision
39. The speed of a car
40. The number of dropouts in a school per district
Enumerate the following:
41-45. Types of Random Sampling Techniques
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46-50. Give atleast five properties that can be observed from the graph of a normal distribution
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AZGH COLLEGE INC.

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

A. P(X) = X B. P(X) = 1/X C. P(X) = X/3 D. P(X) = X/5

A. 1.5 B. 1.3 C. 1.7 D. 1.9

33-34.Complete the table below using mean (μ) = 5.

36-40. Classify the following random variables as discrete or continuous.

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