Stat Post Test
Stat Post Test
1. Which of the following is always true of a discrete 12. The average number of meals a person eats per day is
variable? three with a standard deviation of one. How many
a. Discrete variables have finite domains standard deviations from the mean is four meals a day?
b. Discrete variables cannot have negative values a. one standard deviation below the mean
c. Discrete variables can be describe a day of the week b. one standard deviation above the mean
d. Discrete variables can be added. c. two standard deviations below the mean
2. Which of the following random variables describes the d. two standard deviations above the mean
number of occurrences of an event in a specified 13. Tina's score on her midterm exam was at the 50th
interval of time or space? percentile. The grades were normally distributed. The
a. Binomial Random Variable exam average was 78 and the standard deviation was 6.
b. Continuous Random Variable What was Tina's score on the exam?
c. Discrete Random Variable a. 50 b. 78 c. 80 d. 94
d. Poisson Random Variable 14. If 3,500 people took the achievement test, how many
3. Which of the following best describes the expected value scored lower than the 98th percentile?
of a discrete random variable? a. 70 b. 2% c. 1,750 d. 3,430
a. It is the geometric average of all possible outcomes. 15. In a study of the effects of acid rain, a random sample of
b. It is the weighted average over all possible outcomes. 100 trees from a particular forest is examined. Forty
c. It is the simple average of all possible outcomes. percent of the trees show some signs of damage. Which
d. None of the above of the following statements is correct?
4. Suppose that X is a random variable that can assume the a. 40% is a parameter.
values 1, 2, and 3. If P(X = 1) = 0.1 and P(X = 2) = 0.2, b. 40% is a statistic.
what is P(X = 3)? c. 40% of all trees in the forest show some signs of
a. 0.3 b. 0.5 c. 0.7 d. 0.9 damage.
5. Which of the following is a property of a probability d. More than 40% of the trees in the forest show some
distribution? signs of damage.
a. The sum of the probabilities of a random variable 16. Which technique is used in choosing samples from the
must be equal to one. population?
b. The sum of the probabilities of a random variable a. simple random sampling
must be equal to zero. b. parameter sampling
c. The sum of the probabilities of a random variable can c. statistical sampling
be equal to a negative number. d. simple population sampling
d. The sum of the probabilities of a random variable can 17. Which of the following statements is true?
be greater than one. a. The standard error of the mean is equal to the
6. What is the formula for finding the mean of a discrete variance of the sampling distribution.
random variable? b. The population mean is equal to the mean of the
a. µx = Σxi ∙ P(xi) c. µx = xi ∙ ΣP(xi) sampling distribution.
b. µx = Σ[xi ∙ P(xi)] d. µx =P(xi) ∙ Σxi c. The variance of the mean is the difference between
7. Which of the following variance indicates that the the variance of the population and the sample size.
variables are clustered around the mean? d. The mean of the sampling distribution of the mean is
a a zero variance c. a smaller variance equal to the standard error of the mean.
b. variance equal to one d. a large variance 18. How can the standard error be reduced in surveys?
8. If the variance of a discrete random variable is four, what a. by increasing the sample size
is its standard deviation? b. by decreasing the sample size
a. 2 b. 4 c. 8 d. 16 c. by increasing the population size
9. What determines the height and width of a normal curve? d. by decreasing the population size
a. mean c. range 19. What is the important assumption in the Central Limit
b. proportion d. standard deviation Theorem that guarantees a normal sampling
10. What is the mean and standard deviation of the standard distribution?
normal distribution? a. a sample size that is large enough
a. mean = 0, standard deviation = 0 b. a large number of random samples
b. mean = 1, standard deviation = 1 c. a standard deviation equal to one
c. mean = 0, standard deviation = 1 d. the population mean equal to the sample mean
d. mean = 1, standard deviation = 0 20. According to the Central Limit Theorem, the distribution
11. What does z-score means? of the sampling mean is normal given that large sample
a. It is the distance below the mean. sizes is taken. What is the expected shape of the
b. It gives a positive or negative distance from the sampling distribution?
standard deviation. a. skewed c. bell-shaped
c. It identifies if the distribution comes from a normal b. uniform d. U-shaped
distribution or not. 21. For consistent estimators, which of the following
d. It shows how far above or below the mean a score samples will provide more accurate estimates of
lies. population parameters?
a. smaller samples c. nonrandom selected
b. larger samples d. bimodal
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22. In all forms of confidence interval estimates, what is 35. Which of the following does not describe a null
subtracted from and added to the sample mean to hypothesis?
determine the limits of the confidence interval? a. It states a specific difference between a parameter
a. critical value c. sample size and a statistic.
b. margin of error d. sample standard deviation b. It is the hypothesis to be tested.
23. In all forms of confidence interval for population mean, c. It has a statement of equality, such as ≥, ≤, or =.
how does the confidence level affect the confidence d. It is denoted by H0 .
interval? 36. The null and alternative hypotheses are statements
a. A greater confidence level results to a greater about _______.
interval. a. sample size c. population parameter
b. A greater confidence level results to a smaller b. sample statistics d. population size
interval. 37. If H1: µ > 18 years, what is the null hypothesis?
c. The confidence level does not affect the confidence a. H0: µ ≥ 18 years c. H0: µ = 18 years
interval. b. H0: µ ≤ 18 years d. H0: µ ≠ 18 years
d. The confidence level only affects the interval for large 38. In t-test, if the population standard deviation is
sample sizes. unknown, what is used to replace the population
24. What type of sample size is used for t-distribution? standard deviation?
a. large sample size a. sample size c. hypothesis standard deviation
b. medium sample size about 35 b. population variance d. sample standard deviation
c. small sample size below 30 39. If the alternative hypothesis contains the symbol <,
d. any sample size where is the rejection region located?
25. In what conditions should t-distribution be used? a. center c. right end tail region
a. The sample size is large, and the population standard b. both end tail regions d. left end tail region
deviation is unknown. 40. What does the level of significance mean in hypothesis
b. The sample size is small, and the population standard testing?
deviation is unknown. a. probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is
c. Any sample size will do, and the population standard true
deviation is unknown. b. probability of not rejecting the null hypothesis when
d. The sample size is equal to 30, and the standard it is false
deviation is equal to 1. c. probability of calculating the hypothesized mean
26. Which of the following percentiles indicates that 55% of d. probability of not calculating the hypothesized mean
the values is below it? 41. In hypothesis testing, if the null hypothesis is rejected,
a. 35th b. 45th c. 55th d. 65th which of the following is accepted?
27. In what form can the confidence levels be written? a. hypothesized mean c. acceptance region
𝛼
a. α% c. ( )100% b. alternative hypothesis d. rejection region
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42. The school supervisor said that less than 10% of the
b. (α)100% d. (1 – α)100%
students are working students. What is the null
28. What is the value of α when you are looking for a 99%
hypothesis?
confidence interval?
a. p < 0.10 b. p > 0.10 c. p ≥ 0.10 d. p ≤0.10
a. 1 b. 0.1 c. 0.01 d. 0.001
43. What will be the corresponding value when the z-test
29. Which of the following is the standard deviation of the
statistic is used on the population proportion?
sampling distribution of the mean?
𝜎 𝜎2
a. standardized z-value
a. ơ b. ơ2 c. d. b. standardized t-value
√𝑛 𝑛
30. What is a point estimate? c. hypothesized population proportion
a. It is a range of values that estimate a population. d. hypothesized sample proportion
b. It is a single value that estimates a population. 44. A cashier in a supermarket claims that at least 60% of the
c. It is a value to estimate the sample. shoppers pay in cash. What is the correct hypothesis
d. It is the population taken to estimate the sample. test?
31. The confidence interval estimate of the population a. two-tailed test c. left-tailed test
proportion is 0.632 < p < 0.696. If the sample proportion b. right-tailed test d. z-test statistic
is 0.664, what is the margin of error? 45. Which of the following best describes the scatter plot
a. 0.032 b. 0.042 c. 0.052 d. 0.062 below?
32. The point estimate of the confidence interval is 40, and
the margin of error is 4.25. What is the length of the
confidence interval?
a. 5.47 b. 7.25 c. 8.50 d. 35.75
33. As the sample size increases, the length of the interval
estimate _____________.
a. decreases c. remains the same
b. increases d. will be doubled a. It shows a moderate positive linear association.
34. What is the symbol used to represent the probability of b. It shows a strong positive linear association.
committing Type I error? c. It shows a strong negative linear association.
a. ơ b. α c. β d. µ d. It shows a weak negative linear association.
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46. Which of the following best describes bivariate data? 46. Which of the following best describes bivariate data?
a. It involves one variable in two presentations and aims a. It involves one variable in two presentations and aims
to describe this variable. to describe this variable.
b. It involves two variables in one presentation and aims b. It involves two variables in one presentation and aims
to describe these variables. to describe these variables.
c. It involves one variable with two presentations and c. It involves one variable with two presentations and
aims to determine the correlation. aims to determine the correlation.
d. It involves two variables with one presentation and d. It involves two variables with one presentation and
aims to determine their correlation. aims to determine their correlation.
47. Which of the following Pearson’s sample correlation 47. Which of the following Pearson’s sample correlation
coefficient indicates the weakest linear correlation coefficient indicates the weakest linear correlation
between two variables? between two variables?
a. 0.4 b. 0.12 c. – 0.632 d. – 0.762 a. 0.4 b. 0.12 c. – 0.632 d. – 0.762
48. What variable can the researcher freely manipulate in a 48. What variable can the researcher freely manipulate in a
study? study?
a. independent variable a. independent variable
b. dependent variable b. dependent variable
c. both the independent and dependent variables c. both the independent and dependent variables
d. neither the independent nor the dependent variable d. neither the independent nor the dependent variable
49. Which of the following is true about the relationship 49. Which of the following is true about the relationship
between the correlation coefficient r and slope of a between the correlation coefficient r and slope of a
regression line? regression line?
a. The correlation coefficient r and the slope always a. The correlation coefficient r and the slope always
have different signs. have different signs.
b. The correlation coefficient r and the slope always b. The correlation coefficient r and the slope always
have similar signs. have similar signs.
c. The correlation coefficient r and the slope are always c. The correlation coefficient r and the slope are always
positive. positive.
d. The correlation coefficient r and the slope are always d. The correlation coefficient r and the slope are always
negative. negative.
50. A restaurant created a regression line showing the 50. A restaurant created a regression line showing the
relationship between a customer’s waiting time (w) in relationship between a customer’s waiting time (w) in
minutes and the amount of tip given on top of the minutes and the amount of tip given on top of the
mandatory tip (t) in pesos. The equation of the mandatory tip (t) in pesos. The equation of the
regression line is t = - 4w + 300. Predict the amount of regression line is t = - 4w + 300. Predict the amount of
tip in pesos that will be given on top of the mandatory tip in pesos that will be given on top of the mandatory
tip if a customer waited 25 minutes for the order. tip if a customer waited 25 minutes for the order.
a. ₱400 b. ₱325 c. ₱200 d. ₱125 a. ₱400 b. ₱325 c. ₱200 d. ₱125
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