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Prelim Stat&prob

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LINGAYAO NATIONAL HIGHSCHOOL

Lingayao, Las Nieves, Agusan del Norte

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY


PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

NAME: _________________________________________________ SCORE: _________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. If three coins are tossed, which is a possible value of the random variable for the number
of heads.
a. 5 b. 4 c. 6 d. 0

For numbers 2-4, refer to the discrete probability distribution below.


X 0 1 2 3

P(X) 1/8 3/8 3/8 1/8

2. What is the mean of the discrete probability distribution?.


a. 1.40 b. 1.80 c. 1.50 d. 1.60
3. What is the variance of the discrete probability distribution?
a. 1.75 b. 0.75 c. 1.25 d. 0.50
4. What is the standard deviation?.
a. 0.87 b. 0.86 c. 1.12 d. 0.71
5. Which of the following is not a true statement.
a. The sum of all the possibilities in a probability distribution is always equal to one.
b. The value of a random variable could be zero
c. The probability of the value of a random variable could be zero.
d. Random variables can only have one value.
6. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?
a. The amount of paint used in repainting the building.
b. The amount of electricity consumed
c. The number of patients in a hospital
d. The average weight of female athletes.
7. Which is not a possible value of the sum of two dies rolled.
a. 12 b. 14 c. 10 d. 8
8. Find the area that corresponds to z = 1.99.
a. .4767 b. .4761 c. .4817 d. .4756
9. Find the area that corresponds to z = 1.86.
a. .4678 b. .4750 c. .4608 d. .4686
10. A ______ is a normal probability distribution that has a µ = 0 and standard deviation= 1.
a. Normal curve b. Z-value c. standard normal curve d. Z-score
11. A population consists of the numbers 38, 40, 51, 45 and 54. How many possible samples
that can be drawn from this population, size n=3.
a. 12 b. 10 c. 14 d. 16

12. Refer to question 11, what is the mean of the first sample?
a. 43 b. 44 c. 45 d. 56
“I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about patterns, but in such a smokescreen way that you couldn’t tell.”
skidrow
I. Write only the letter of the correct answer. Please answer carefully.. 3 Points each.
A. PROBABILITY MASS FUNCTION G. CONTINOUS RANDOM VARIABLE M. DISCRETE RANDOM VARIABLE
𝑋−𝜇
B. STATISTICS H. m. .3790
𝜎
C. ∑ 𝑿 · 𝑷(𝑿) I. .4706 &. 1.14
D. 0.3792 J. VARIANCE Y. ∑(𝑿 − 𝝁)𝟐 · 𝑷(𝑿)
𝑋−𝑋
E. SAMPLE SPACE K. R. RANDOM VARIABLE
𝑆
F. STANDARD NORMAL CURVE L. RANDOM VARIABLE r. .4332
S. √∑(𝑿 − 𝝁)𝟐 · 𝑷(𝑿) s. PARAMETERS T. .3577

______1. A random variable in which the set of all possible outcome is countable.
______2. The set of all possible outcomes.
______3. Is a function that associates a real number with each element in the sample space.
______4. The variance of a discrete probability distribution is given by the formula: ____
______5. The formula for the mean of a random variable with a discrete probability distribution is___
______6. The formula for calculating z-score for population data is: ________
______7. Given X=26, X=20 and s=4. Compute the z-score and locate the area in z-table.
______8. Find the corresponding area where z=1.89.
______9. The standard deviation of a discrete probability distribution is given by the formula:
_____10. Find the corresponding area where z= 1.07.
_____11.Locate the z-value that corresponds to a Statistics score of 39 given that µ=32 and 𝝈 = 𝟔.
_____12. Consists of the values, a random variable can assume and the corresponding probabilities of the
values.
____13. It is a descriptive measure computed from a population.
_____14. Given the mean, µ=50, standard deviation, 𝝈=7 of a population of Reading scores. Find the z-score
that corresponds to a score X=58.

A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU!!! GOOD LUCK!!!

III PROBLEM SOLVING. At the back of your paper


∑
1. Compute the mean (µ) of the population µ= 𝑵𝑿 5 Construct the sampling distribution of the sample means
6. Compute the mean of the sampling distribution of the
sample means (µ𝑥 ).
Sample Frequency Probability
2. Compute the variance of the population Mean X P(X) X · P(X)

X X- µ (𝑿 − µ)𝟐

∑(𝑿−µ)𝟐
𝝈𝟐 = 𝑵 TOTAL µ=
3. List all possible samples and their corresponding means. 7. Compute the variance of the sampling distribution of the
sample means.
SAMPLES MEAN

X P(X) X-µ (𝑿 − 𝝁)𝟐 P(X)·(𝑿 − 𝝁)𝟐

4. Determine the number of possible samples of size


n=3. TOTAL 𝝈𝟐 =

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