STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

THIRD QUARTERLY EXAMINATION

Multiple Choice. Read each item carefully and write your answer on a separate answer sheet provided.

1. Which of the following is NOT an example of a continuous random variable?

A. The number of classrooms in a large school.
B. The amount of ink used in printing modules.
C. The average height of Grade 11 students.
D. The distance traveled by students from home to school.
2. Four balls are drawn in an urn containing 5 green and 3 red balls. If G represents the number of green balls, what are
the possible values of the random variable G?

A. { 1,2,3,4 } B. { 0,1,2,3,4 } C. { 0,1,2,3,4,5 } D. { 1,2,3,4,5 }

3. Which of the following represents a probability distribution?

A.

B.

C.

D.

4. Suppose two coins are tossed. Let H represent the head and T for the tail. What is the sample space?

A. S = { TT , TH , HH , HT } C. S= { TT , HT , H , HT }
B. S= { T , HT , HT , TT } D. S= { HH , TT }
5. What do you call a variable X whose values depends on the outcome of a random process?

A. Continuous Random Variable C. Random Variable

B. Discrete Random Variable D. Sampling

 For items 6-7. The table below shows the probability distribution of books sold in a bookstore daily.

6. What is the probability that at least seven books will be sold?

A. 31% B. 33% C. 64% D. 67%

7. What is the mean of the probability distribution?

A. 6 B. 6.8 C. 6.84 D. 7

8. A card is taken at random from full pack of playing cards. What is the probability that the card is taken a queen?

1 1 1 1
A. B. C. D.
13 2 24 4
9. In the given probability distribution below. What is the mean of the random variable?

x 0 1 2 3 4

f(x) 1/5 1/5 1/5 1/5 1/5

A. 5 B. 4 C. 3 D. 2
10. Which of the following is TRUE about variance?
A. Variance is the summation of all values of x.
B. Variance is the square root of the standard deviation.
C. Variance is the summation of x minus mean square.
D. Variance is the result of multiplying the mean and the standard deviation.

11. What do you call the value of a probability distribution that tells the value of a random variable that we expect to get if
the experiment is done repeatedly?
A. Mean B. Variance C. Standard Deviation D. Random Variable
12. Let the random variable X represents the number of students who visit the school clinic every day. The computed
mean and variance of the random variable are 3 and 1.7, respectively. What can you conclude based on the given data?
 A. The average number of students who visit the school clinic is 3 every day.
B. The average number of students who visit the school clinic is 1.7 every day.
C. The average number of students who visit the school clinic is 4.7 every day.
D. The number of students who visit the school clinic is very high.

13. Five randomly selected students in Grade 11- Earth participated in a Reading test. The probabilities that 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,
or 5 will be labeled as independent readers are 0.15, 0.17, 0.20, 0.25, 0.13, and 0.10, respectively. Find the variance of
the probability distribution.

A. 1.52 B. 2.32 C. 2.33 D. 2.34

 For item number 14.

14. Based on the table of areas under the normal curve above. What is the area that corresponds to z = 0.5?
A. 0.1915 B. 0.1950 C. 0.2088 D. 0.2257

15. The mean score of Grade 11 students in a Diagnostic test in Statistics is 41, with a standard deviation of 5. Find the
standard score of Newton who got a score of 45, assuming that the scores are normally distributed.

−5 −4 4 5
A. B. C. D.
4 5 5 4
16. In the first quarterly assessment, Einstein’s score is on the 95 th percentile. Which of the following statement is correct
about Einstein’s score?
A. He got a score of 95 on the test.
B. He is rank 95th among the class.
C. He scored higher than the 95% of the class.
D. 95% of the class scored better than him.

17. A parameter is a value or measurement obtained from a population, which of the following situations is a parameter?
A. The mean score of 50 randomly selected Grade 11 students in the Statistics test is 75.
B. A sample of 100 students revealed that the mean allowance of a Senior high school student is 120 pesos
daily.
C. Out of 80 randomly selected students, only 15% owned a laptop.
D. The mean percentage of students having difficulties in Statistics is 22%.

18. Which of the following is a possible sample from a population consisting of four numbers 2,4,6, and 8 if we consider
samples of size 2?
A . { 2,4 } B. {4,6} C. {6,8} D. All of the above

19. Which of the following is true about the sampling distribution of the sample means?
A. It can be solved by getting the square root of the variance.
B. It can be computed by squaring the standard deviation.
C. The mean can be computed by adding the product of the sample means multiplied by its corresponding
probability.
D. The mean can be computed by getting the summation of the given data divided by the total number of values
in the given data.

 For item number 20.

20. Given the picture above. What is the margin of error with s = 5.36, n=¿ 350, and confidence level of 99%?
A. 0.54 B. 0.64 C. 0.74 D. 0.84

21. The height of a group of boys in Tumauini Stand-Alone Senior High School is normally distributed with a mean of 54
inches and a standard deviation of 2.5 inches. What percentage of the population would have a height between 53 inches
and 56 inches?

A. 44.35% B. 43.35% C. 42.35% D. 41.35%

22. Which of the following experiments implies a discrete random variable?

A. The temperature of a solution in the laboratory.
B. Collecting data about the heights of students in senior high schools.
C. Recording the distance travelled by the bus.
D. Number of promoted students at the end of school year.
23. Let random variable X be the number of computers sold in a day. The computed mean and standard deviation of a
probability distribution are 2 and 1.8 respectively.
x P(x) X. P(X)
0 0.10 0.00
1 0.20 0.20
2 0.45 0.90
3 0.15 0.45
4 0.05 0.20
5 0.05 0.25
What can you conclude based on the given data?
A. The average number of computers sold is 2 every day.
B. The average number of computers sold 3.9 every day.
C. The average number of computers sold 1.8every day.
D. The average number of computers sold 01every day.

 For item number 24.

24. Number of 0 1 2 3 4 5 The

Violations X

Probability 0.41 0.22 0.17 0.13 0.05 0.02

P(X)

probabilities that a market inspector will discover of the public health code in a public market are given in the following
table. Find the mean of the probability distribution.

A. 1.25 B. 1.26 C. 1.27 D. 1.28

25. If the normal curve represents the probability, or the proportion, or the percentage associated with specifics sets of
measurement values. What is the total area under a normal curve?
A. 0.500 B. 1.00 C. 1.50 D. 2.00

26. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about normal curve?

A. The normal curved is bell-shaped.
B. The curve is symmetrical about its center.
C. The mean, median, and mode coincide at the center.
D. The total area under a normal curve is 1.5.

 For item number 27.

27. Find the area that corresponds z = 1.35.

A. 0.4099 B. 0.4115 C. 0.4131 D. 0.40

28. Suppose the IQ scores are normally distributed with mean of 100 and standard deviation of 10. If your IQ is 85, what
is your standard z-score?
A. 0.500 B. 1.00 C. -1.50 D. 2.00

29. Maria’s score is on 90th percentile in examination. What is true about Maria’s score?
A. Maria got 90/100 score on her exam.
B. Maria got 10% score on her exam.
C. Maria’s score is higher than 90th percentiles of the class.
D. Maria’s score is higher than 10 th percentiles of the class.

30. The height of a group of boys in Tumauini Stand-Alone Senior High School is normally distributed with a mean of 54
inches and a standard deviation of 2.5 inches. If a boy is chosen at random from this population, what is the probability
that he is taller than 52 inches?

a. 82.83% b. 81. 76% c. 79. 53% d. 78. 81%

31. What do you call the type of random sampling that involves choosing your sample based on a regular interval, rather
than a fully random selection?
A. Simple Random Sampling C. Stratified Random Sampling
B. Systematic Random Sampling D. Cluster Random Sampling

 For item no. 32

32. Based on the illustration given above. What is the t-value if the given sample size (n) is 6, and α =0.01 ?
a. 3.143 b. 3.365 c. 3.750 d. 4.540

33. Find the number of all possible random samples that can be drawn from the population by using , N Cn , where N=5 is
the population size and n=2 is the sample size.

A. 10 B. 20 C. 30 D. 40

34. The given population is 1,2,3,4 and 5 with a sample size of 3, using ❑N C n, What is the possible random variables
that can be drawn from the given population?
A. 10 B. 20 C. 30 D. 40

35. The following are the seven scores of the students above that are randomly selected: 8, 7, 20, 15, 10, 14, 16. What is
the value of the sample mean?
A. 15.2 B. 12.9 C. 13.5 D. 14.7

36. Which of the following has the least variance?

A. A sample of 2 from a population of 5.
B. A sample of 3 from a population of 5.
C. A sample of 4 from a population of 5.
D. A sample of 5 from a population of 5.
37. Which formula is applicable when dealing with data about the sample mean?
x−μ
z= x−μ x−μ
A. σ B. z = n π (1−π ) C. z = D. z =
σ n
√n
 For item number 38.

38. The population of Monkey Eating-Eagles of the endangered bird species in the Philippines has a standard deviation of
40. Compute the length of the confidence interval for a 90% confidence level having a size of 150 and a sample mean of
65.

a. 11.74 b. 10.74 c. 9.74 d. 8.74

39. Many common statistical procedures requires data that approximately follows a normal distribution. However,
normally distributed data isn’t always the case. Which of the following cases where Central Limit Theorem becomes
useful?
A. When the population is normally distributed.
B. When the population is skewed to the left.
C. When the population is skewed to the right.
D. All of the above.

40. Consider all samples of size 6 from this population 3,5,7,8,9,10. Compute the mean of the population.
A. 7.00 B. 7.10 C. 7.11 D. 7.12