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Summative Test (Sampling Distribution, Known and Unknown Variance, CLT-WPS Office

The document is a summative test on Statistics and Probability focusing on topics such as random sampling, standard deviation, and the Central Limit Theorem. It includes multiple-choice questions and problem-solving tasks related to sampling distributions and probabilities. The test assesses understanding of key statistical concepts and calculations.

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Summative Test (Sampling Distribution, Known and Unknown Variance, CLT-WPS Office

The document is a summative test on Statistics and Probability focusing on topics such as random sampling, standard deviation, and the Central Limit Theorem. It includes multiple-choice questions and problem-solving tasks related to sampling distributions and probabilities. The test assesses understanding of key statistical concepts and calculations.

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Summative Test in Statistics and Probability

(Random Sampling, Known and Unknown Variance, Central Limit Theorem)

I. Read the questions carefully. Write the letter and words of the best answer.
1. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution is called __________
a. Means
b. Standard error
c. The central limit theorem
d. Population

2. The mean and standard deviation of a population are 200 and 20, respectively. Sample size is 25. What is
the standard deviation of the sampling distribution?
a. 200
b. 16
c. 25
d. 4
3. What name refers to the standard deviation of the sampling distribution?
a. sampling deviation
b. mean deviation
c. sampling error
d. standard error
4. The mean and standard deviation of a population are 200 and 20, respectively.
What is the probability of selecting 100 data values with a mean greater than 202?
a. 45%
b. 36%
c. 25%
d. 16%

5. If the sum of identically distributed independent random variables has a finite variance, then it will
(approximately) be normally distributed

a. Sampling distributions
b. Means
c. Standar error
d. The central limit theorem

6. The heights female college students are normally distributed with mean of 68 inches and standard
deviation of 3 inches. If 25 students are randomly drawn from the population, what would be the standard
error of the resulting sampling distribution of the means?

a. 0.5
b. 0.6
c. 0.7
d. 0.8

7. A distribution showing the sample means of all sample of size n of a population is called

a. Binomial Distribution
b. Normal Distribution
c. Sampling Distribution
d. Uniform Distribution

8. What happens to the shape of a sampling distribution of sample means as n increases?

a. The skew gets bigger.


b. The skew is reversed.
c. It becomes narrower and more normal.
d. The shape is the same, but wider.

9. Suppose the teenagers that attend public high schools get an average of 5.7 hours of sleep each night with
a standard deviation of 1.7 hours. What is the probability that a randomly selected group of 35 high school
students get more than 6 hours of sleep each night?

a. Approximately 0.15
b. Approximately 0.43
c. Approximately 0.57
d. Approximately 0.85

10. If the random samples are large, what is the shape of the sampling distribution of the mean?

a. skewed to the left


b. normal
c. skewed to the right
d. rectangular

II. Answer the following questions:

1. Consider the population values of two, six, and eight with a sample size of two, without replacement.

a. List all the possible samples. (6 points) 5 points sa table


b. Find the population mean. (2)
c. Find the population variance. (2)
d. Find the population standard deviation. (2)
e. Find the mean of the sampling distribution of means. (2)
f. Find the variance of the sampling distribution of means. (2)
g. Find the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means. (2)

2. Suppose the teenagers that attend public high schools get an average of 5.7 hours of sleep each night
with a standard deviation of 1.7 hours. What is the probability that a randomly selected group of 35 high
school students get more than 6 hours of sleep each night? (Use the 3 steps in calculating the
probability) (4 given) (2)(1)

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