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1. This document provides a quiz on probability and statistics concepts covering topics like variables, descriptive versus inferential statistics, qualitative versus quantitative variables, discrete versus continuous variables, sampling techniques, and observational versus experimental studies. 2. It contains multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions to test understanding of key terminology and how to classify different statistical variables and studies. 3. The quiz is intended for a first semester probability and statistics course to evaluate foundational knowledge of the nature and approaches of probability and statistics.

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1. This document provides a quiz on probability and statistics concepts covering topics like variables, descriptive versus inferential statistics, qualitative versus quantitative variables, discrete versus continuous variables, sampling techniques, and observational versus experimental studies. 2. It contains multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions to test understanding of key terminology and how to classify different statistical variables and studies. 3. The quiz is intended for a first semester probability and statistics course to evaluate foundational knowledge of the nature and approaches of probability and statistics.

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Probability and Statistics

First Semester, School Year 2019-2020

Name: ____________________________________ Date: _____________________


Course and Year: ____________________________ Score: ___________________

Quiz No.1
The Nature of Probability and Statistics

I. Identification. Write your answer before the number.


1. This variable is numerical and can be ordered or ranked.
2. It is the science of conducting studies to collect, organize, summarize, analyse, and draw
conclusions from data.
3. It is a variable that can assume an infinite number of values between any two specific values
which include fractions and decimals.
4. It consists of all subjects (human or otherwise) that are being studied.
5. It is a characteristic or attribute that can assume different values.
6. It is a decision-making process fro evaluating claims about a population, based on information
obtained from samples.
7. It consists of the collection ,organization, summarization, and presentation of data.
8. It is a group of subjects selected from a population.
9. It is a variable that can be placed into distinct categories, according to some characteristics or
attributes.
10. These are the values (measurements or observations) that the variable can assume.
11. It consists of generalizing from samples to populations, performing estimations and hypothesis
tests, determining relationships among variables, and making predictions.
12. It is a variable which assumes values that can be counted.

II. In each of these statements, tell whether descriptive statistics or inferential statistics have been used. Write
your answer before the number.
1. The political views of the youth in the rural areas with respect to inflation rate in the Philippines.
2. The forecast of PAG-ASA in the number of typhoons that will hit the Philippines in the upcoming years due
to global warming.
3. A researcher tested the difference on the customers buying preference in different brands of milk.
4. The average prices of houses in BOHOL.
5. Birth rate of selected urban areas in the Philippines.

III. Classify each variable as qualitative variable or quantitative variable. Write your answer before the number.
1. Number of bicycles sold in one year by a large sporting goods store.
2. Colors of baseball caps in a store.
3. Classification of children in a daycare center.
4. Marital status of Faculty members in BISU.
5. Favorite department store.

IV. Classify each variable as discrete or continuous. Write your answer before the number.
1. Number of doughnuts sold each day
2. Weights of cats in a pet shelter.
3. Lifetime (in hours) of 12 flashlight batteries.
4. Student number.
5. Water temperatures of ten rivers in the Philippines on a given day.

V. Indicate whether the following variables are nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio. Write your answer before the
number.
1) Age 9) Country of birth
2) Height 10) Eye color
3) Class standing (freshman, sophomore, … , senior) 11) Level of satisfaction with bookstore
4) Gender 12) Income
5) Length of time it takes to get to school 13) Zip code
6) High temperature 14) GPA
7) Shirt size (small, medium, large) 15) Perceived speed of computer (slow, … , fast)
8) Number of siblings
VI. Identify the sampling technique used (random, cluster, stratified, systematic). Write your answer before the
number.
1) Every fifth person boarding a plane is searched thoroughly.
2) At a local community College, five math classes are randomly selected out of 20 and all of the students from
each class are interviewed.
3) A researcher randomly selects and interviews fifty male and fifty female teachers.
4) A researcher for an airline interviews all of the passengers on five randomly selected flights.
5) Based on 12,500 responses from 42,000 surveys sent to its alumni, a major university estimated that the
annual salary of its alumni was 92,500.
6) A market researcher randomly selects 200 drivers under 35 years of age and 100 drivers over 35 years of age.
7) All of the teachers from 85 randomly selected nation’s middle schools were interviewed.
8) The names of 70 contestants are written on 70 cards. The cards are placed in a bag, and three names are
picked from the bag.
9) In a large school district, all teachers from two buildings are interviewed to determine whether they believe
the students have less homework to do now than in previous years.
10) Every seventh customer entering a shopping mall is asked to select her or his favorite store.
11) Nursing supervisors are selected using random numbers to determine annual salaries.
12) Every 100th hamburger manufactured is checked to determine its fat content.
Mail carriers of a large city are divided into four groups according to gender (male or female) and according to
whether they walk or ride on their routes. Then 10 are selected from each group and interviewed to determine
whether they have been bitten by a dog in the last year.

VII. Identify each study as being either observational or experimental. Write your answer before the number.
1. Subjects were randomly assigned to two groups, and one group was given an herb and the other
group of placebo. After 6 months, the numbers of respiratory tract infections each group had were
compared.
2. A researcher stood at a busy intersection to see if the color of the automobile that a person drives is
related to running red lights.
3. A researcher finds that people who are more hostile have higher total cholesterol levels than those
who are less hostile.

“Give thanks in everything for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” - 1 Thessalonians 5:18

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