ENGINEERING DATA ANALYSIS

QUIZ ON MODULE 7
STATISTICAL INTERVALS
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NUMBER.
1. What do we call the measure of central tendency of a probability distribution along median and mode?
a. mean b. standard deviation c. variance d. sample
2. To which of the following is the standard deviation closely related?
a. confidence level b. mean c. margin of error d. zα/2
3. It is the only factor that ties with the confidence level. What is it?
a. margin of error b. mean c. zα/2 d. standard deviation
4. The confidence interval may be wider or narrower depending on the degree of what?
a. assurance b. doubtlessness c. conviction d. all of the above
5. The standard deviation of the population is 12, what is the variance?
a. 3.46 b. 144 c. 2.306 d. 1.645
6. If the variance of a sample is 46.8, what is its standard deviation?
a. 2,190.24 b. 1.96 c. 6.8 d. 3.604
7. If the confidence interval for the population mean is 49.9 to 58.1, what is the sample mean?
a. 108 b. 50 c. 58 d. 11
8. Which of the following does not belong to the group?
a. 1.65 b. 1.96 c. 2.95 d. 2.58
9. A study of 27 BSME male students found that the standard deviation of their height is 0.9 meters. With
the 90% confidence interval of the variance for the height variable, what is the value of the lower limit?
Assume the variable is normally distributed.
a. 26.37 b. 37.08 c. 23.34 d. 43.7
10. A Barangay Health Worker wants to estimate the average number of residents in their barangay going
to the Barangay Health Center for a checkup per day, within 2 residents. From the previous study, the
standard deviation was found to be 5.5. In how many days should she select to survey if she wants to be at
least 95% confident with her study?
a. 28 b. 29 c. 30 d. 31
11. _______________________place bounds for where a proportion of population is likely to fall,
a. Confidence Intervals b. Prediction Intervals c. Production Intervals d. Tolerance Intervals
12. It is a range of values that is likely to contain the value of a single new observation given specified
settings of the predicators.
a. Prediction Interval b. Variance c. margin of error d. sample
13. Prediction interval tells you where a value will fall in the future, ______________________, a certain
percentage of the time.
a. with a certain degree of freedom c. given enough samples
b. with a low standard deviation d. with a certain probability
14. Which of the following is TRUE about sample size and degree of freedom?
a. The sample size is equal to the degree of freedom
b. The degree of freedom is always lesser than the sample size
c. The sample size is sometimes lesser than the degree of freedom but mostly greater than.
d. The sample size and the degree of freedom has no relation at all.
15. The standard deviation indicates how ____________ the data is in relation to the mean.
a. dispersed b. elevated c. defined d. arranged
16. Given: R = 100, A = ±1.1% B = 36.7%, find D.
a. 3,333 b. 3,000 c. 3,300 d. 3,330
17. A random sample of temperature in the 10 recent Thanksgiving Days had an average of 31 Degrees
Celsius with a standard deviation of 7 Degrees Celsius. Assume the variable is normally distributed. Find
the 95% confidence interval of the population mean for the temperatures.
a. 26 < µ < 36 b. 25 < µ <36 c.25 < µ < 37 d. 26 < µ < 35
18. If the sample size increases by 1, what will happen to the degree of freedom?
a. Increases by 1 b. Decreases by 1 c. remains the same d. it will become zero
19. The confidence interval for the population mean is 18.6 < µ < 23.4, what is the square root of the
sample mean?
a. 4.58 b. 6.48 c. 4.31 d. 4.84
20. The upper limit for the prediction interval for the next sample observed, is 82.35, if the square root of
1+1/n is 1.005 and the variance is 2.9, what is the sample mean if the prediction interval was calculated
with 95% level of confidence?
a. 78 b. 79 c. 80 d. 81
21. In the previous study, it was found that the standard deviation of the weights of 26 men is 12.9 kg.
Assume the variable is normally distributed, what is the 90% confidence interval of the variance for the
weight variable?
a. 67.24. < σ 2 < 97.1 b. 54.8 < σ 2< 90.78 c. 16.8 < σ 2 < 34.76 d. 49.67 ¿ σ 2< ¿ 87.23
22. If the level of confidence is 99%, the standard deviation is 4.3, and the margin of error is 2, which of
the following is CORRECT?
a. n - 1 = 29 b. the square root of n is 5.547 c. n squared is 961 d. n/1 = 15
23. The upper limit of the confidence interval for the population mean is 34. If the sample mean is 29.5,
what is the lower limit of the population mean?
a. 25 b. 26 c. 24 d. 27

24. In item #23, what is the square root of the lower limit?
a. 5 b. 5.1 c. 4.9 d. 5.2
25. The population standard deviation of a sample varies directly as x and inversely as y. σ is 3.2 when x
is 4 and y is 6. Find n for E =2 and α = 0.05; when x is 7 and y is 12.
a. 7 b. 8 c. 9 d. 10
26. If there is an increase of 1 in the standard deviation, what is the new sample size? (for item# 25).
a. 16. b. 15 c. 14 d.13
27. Which of the following indicates the exactness of an estimate?
a. zα /2 b. margin of error c. mean d. upper and lower limit
28. If the sample mean is unknown, is it impossible to calculate the confidence interval for the population
mean? a. yes b. no c. maybe d. it depends
29. As an analogy, the sample is a sari-sari store and the population is a
a. market b. supermarket c. grocery store d. shopping center
30. It provides a way to quantify the uncertainty about scalar quantities of a population based on a random
sample of data.
a. Tolerance Interval b. Confidence Interval c. Prediction Interval d. Statistical Interval
PROBLEM SOLVING: SOLVE FOR WHAT IS ASKED. IPAKITA MO KUNG SINO KA. CHOS
EME LANG. SHOW YOUR COMPLETE SOLUTION KADE. (10 points).
1.05, 1.07, A, 1.21
B varies directly as x and inversely as y. B = 14.9 when x = 6 and y = 9. What is B when x = 10 and y =
7?
The number of faces, edges and vertices of a cube was represented as x, y and z respectively.

D= ( x+0.0y+z z ) y 2

From the values solved, calculate the Population Confidence Interval Range and the population range.
ESSAY: Write your answer in 3-10 sentences. (10 points).
If you were to create a new tagline for Nueva Vizcaya (in connection to what we’ve discussed), what
would it be and why? (For example: If I were to create a new tagline for Nueva Vizcaya, it would be,
home of confidence, because people here are proud in their customs, and confidently showing it to
others…,etc.).