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Instructions: Read and understand each statement. Shade the letter of the correct answer on the answer sheet
provided.
1. Data values that are very different from other measurements in the data set are referred to as
A. Extremes B. Outliers C. Elementary unit D. Sampling unit
2. Which of the following makes use of inferential statistics?
A. A survey done by a group of students reported that the average amount spent on daily fare by high school
students is P 34.50.
B. The average jackpot for the top 5 Lotto winners was 35 million pesos.
C. A study done by the American Academy of Neurology suggests that older people who had a high caloric diet
more than double their risk of memory loss.
D. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) measures the
daily amount of rainfall.
3. Which of the following is not true about the median?
A. It makes use of position rather than specific values.
B. It is a more resistant measure since it is not affected by the extreme values.
C. In an even distribution, the median is the middlemost value, that is, the (n/2)th value in the distribution.
D. The median value implies that 50% of the data values in the distribution lies above it and 50% lies below it.

4. What measure of central tendency should be used if a researcher wants to determine the most widespread
disease in a community for the months of June to July?
A. Mean B. Median C. Mode D. Midrange
5. Ana’s score in a test is 80 out of 100, which is in the 75th percentile rank. Which of the following is true about the
Ana’s score?
A. There are 25 students whose score are lower than Ana’s.
B. There are 75 students whose score are lower than Ana’s.
C. 25% of the students scored greater than Ana’s score.
D. 75% of the students scored greater than Ana’s score.
6. The number of ads on a one-hour television show is what type of data?
A. Nominal B. Qualitative C. Discrete D. Continuous
7. A researcher chose respondents for a study by selecting every 7th element from an arranged list from a random
start. What sampling method was used?
A. Simple random C. Systematic
B. Stratified D. Cluster
8. Data that are classified according to color is measured on what scale?
A. Nominal B. Ordinal C. Interval D. Ratio
9. What graph should be used to show the relationship between the parts and the whole?
A. Histogram B. Pie Graph C. Pareto Chart
10. What is the value of the mode when all values in the data set are different?
A. 0 B. 1 C. There is no mode. D. It cannot be determined unless the data values are given.
11. When student data are categorized as to age group (below 13 yrs old, 13 - 17 years old, 18 yrs old and above),
what is the most appropriate measure of central tendency?
A. Mean B. Median C. Mode D. Midrange
12. A statistic that tells the number of standard deviations a data value is above or below the mean is referred to as
A. Quartile B. Coefficient of variation C. Percentile D. z score
13. In a bell-shaped distribution, approximately what percentage of data values falls within one standard deviation of
the mean?
A. 50% B. 68% C. 95% D. 99.7%
14. The probability that an event happens is 0.51. What is the probability that the event will not happen?
A. -0.51 B. 0.49 C. 0 D. 1

15. The sample space of tossing 2 dice consists of how many outcomes?
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A. 1 B. 6 C. 12 D. 36

16. A random sample of 500 students from University A were surveyed, and it was found out that 375 wore glasses
or corrective contact lenses. What is the probability that a university student from University A selected at random
wears corrective lenses?
A. 0.002 B. 0.003 C. 0.75 D. 1

For #s 17 - 18. A professor is making up a final exam and he wants the last three questions to be of true-false type.
To guarantee that the answers do not follow the professor’s favorite pattern, he/she lists all the possible true-false
combinations for the three questions on slips of paper and picks one at random.

17. What is the probability that all three items will be false?
A. 1/8 B. 1/4 C. 3/8 D. 7/8
18. What is the probability that exactly two items will be true?
A. 1/8 B. 1/4 C. 3/8 D. 7/8
19. A veterinarian tells you that if you breed two cream-colored guinea pigs, the probability that an off-spring will be
pure white is 0.25. What is the probability that an off-spring will not be pure white?
A. -0.25 B. 0 C. 0.75 D. 1
20. Suppose, two dice are tossed. What is the probability of getting a 5 on each die?
A. 1/36 B. 1/18 C. 1/6 D. 1/3

For #s 21-23. A quality-control procedure for testing disposable cameras consists of drawing two cameras at random
from each lot of 100 without replacing the first camera before drawing the second. If both cameras are defective,
the entire lot is rejected. Assume that the lot contains ten defective cameras.

21. What is the probability of getting a defective camera on the first draw?
A. 0 B. 1/100 C. 1/10 C. 1
22. What is the probability of getting a defective camera on the second draw given that the first one if defective?
A. 1/99 B. 1/11 C. 1/9 C. 10/99
23. What is the probability that both cameras are defective?
A. 1/990 B. 1/110 C. 1/90 D. 1/50

24. A set of data has 10 data values, with mean of A, median of B and standard deviation of C. Which of the following
is not true if each data value is increased by 5?
A. The mean will increase by 5.
B. The median will increase by 5.
C. The standard deviation will increase by 5.
D. The standard deviation will not be affected.
25. The complement of guessing 10 correct answers on a 10-item true-false test is
A. Guessing 10 incorrect answers
B. Guessing at least 1 incorrect answer
C. Guessing at least 1 correct answer
D. Guessing no incorrect answers
26. What is the number of permutations of six objects taken altogether?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 36 D. 720
27. What is the sum of the probabilities of all outcomes in a probability distribution?
A. 0 B. 1/2 C. 1 D. It cannot be determined.
28. The mean of the standard normal distribution is
A. 0 B. 1 C. 100 D. variable
29. Which is not a property of the standard normal distribution?
A. It is symmetric about the mean.
B. It is uniform.
C. It is bell-shaped.
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D. It is unimodal.
30. The standard deviation of all possible sample means equals
A. The population standard deviation
B. The population standard deviation divided by the population mean
C. The population standard deviation divided by the square root of the sample size
D. The square root of the population standard deviation
31. The best point estimate of the population mean is
A. The sample mean
B. The sample size
C. The sample median
D. The sample standard deviation
32. When the population standard deviation is unknown and the sample size is less than 30, what table value should
be used in computing a confidence interval for the mean?
A. z B. t C. Chi-Sqaure D. None of these
33. When the value of α is increased, the probability of committing a type I error is
A. Decreased B. Increased C. The same D. None of these
34. If you wish to test the claim that the mean of the population is 100, the appropriate null hypothesis is
A. X B. µ ≥ 100 C. µ ≤ 100 D. µ = 100
35. The degrees of freedom for the Chi-square test for variance or standard deviation are
A. 1 B. n C. n - 1 D. None of these
36. What test can be used to test the difference between two sample means when the population variance is
known?
A. z B. t C. Chi-Sqaure D. F
37. The strength of the relationship between two variables is determined by
A. r B. a C. x D. b
38. Which of the following is true about r = 0.90?
A. The result means that 90% of the variation in the dependent variable is accounted for by the variations in
the independent variable.
B. The result means that 90% of the variation in the independent variable is accounted for by the variations
in the dependent variable.
C. The result means that 81% of the variation in the dependent variable is accounted for by the variations in
the independent variable.
D. The result means that 81% of the variation in the independent variable is accounted for by the variations
in the dependent variable.

39. Which of the following is true about the rejection of the null hypothesis?
A. The null hypothesis is rejected if the p-value is greater than α.
B. The null hypothesis is rejected if the p-value is lesser than α.
C. The null hypothesis is rejected if the critical-value is greater than the p-value.
D. The null hypothesis is rejected if the critical value is lesser than the p-value.

For #s 40 - 44. A sports director claims that by taking a special vitamin, an athlete can increase his strength. Eight
athletes were selected and given a test of strength (measured in pounds) using the standard bench press. After two
weeks of regular taining, supplemented with the vitamin, they are tested again. Test the effectiveness of the vitamin
regimen at α = 0.05. Assume that the variable is approximately normal.
40. Which of the following is the correct statement of the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis? (D is the
difference in the strength before and after intervention)
A. Ho: µD = 0, H1: µD > 0 C. H0: µD = 0, H1: µD ≠ 0
B. Ho: µD = 0, H1: µD < 0 D. H0: µD < 0, H1: µD = 0
41. What type of statistical hypothesis test must be used?
A. Two-tailed test C. Left-tailed test
B. Right-tailed test D. Any test will do
42. What is the appropriate test statistic for the given problem?
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A. Z-test C. t-Test for Independent Samples
B. t-Test for dependent samples D. One-way ANOVA
43. If the computed value is -1.388, and the critical value is -1.895, what must be the correct decision?
A. Reject the null hypothesis since the critical value is lesser than the computed value.
B. Reject the null hypothesis since the critical value is greater than the p-value.
C. Do not reject the null hypothesis since the critical value is lesser than the computed value.
D. Do not reject the null hypothesis since the critical value is greater than the p-value.
44. What should be the correct decision based on the previous number?
A. There is enough evidence to support the claim that the vitamin increases an athlete’s strength.
B. There is not enough evidence to support the claim that the vitamin increases an athlete’s strength.
C. There is enough evidence to reject the claim that the vitamin increases an athlete’s strength.
D. There is not enough evidence to reject the claim that the vitamin increases an athlete’s strength.

45. The One-way ANOVA is a parametric test used to determine the significant differences among three or more
means. If the null hypothesis is rejected, which of the following cannot be used to look for the differences in the
means?
A. Bonferroni’s test C. Kruskal Wallis test
B. Scheffe’s test D. Tukey test