Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VII, Central Visayas
Division of NEGROS ORIENTAL
Kagawasan Ave., Daro, Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental

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Statistics and Probability - Grade 11
2nd Semester – Midterm
Direction: Read and analyze each item. Write the letter of the correct answer on the blank space provided
before each number.
_____1. Which of the following is an example of a discrete random variable?
A. Jean’s hair color is blue
B. Jean weighs 68 kilograms
C. Jean ran 350 meters in 3 minutes
D. Jean has 6 bags color (blue, green, yellow, red and violet)
_____2. Which of the following is NOT a continuous random variable?
A. The height of the airplane’s flight
B. The number of COVID 19 cases in Zamboanguita in the month of November
C. The amount of liquid on a container
D. The length of time for the check up in the hospital
_____3. Which of the following statement describe a continuous variable?
A. The number of students who have not returned the modules
B. The average speed travelled by a van in a month
C. The number of motorists not wearing helmet
D. The number of parents who are very cooperative in the school activity
_____4. Which of the following is NOT a discrete variable?
A. The number of non-defective laptops
B. The weight of box delivered by the grab driver last December
C. The number of vehicles owned by Teves’s family
D. The number of coins that match when three coins are tossed at once.
_____5. If a coin is tossed, what are the possible values of the random variable for the number of tails?
A. 0,1,2,3 B. 1,2,3 C. 0,1,2 D. 0,1
_____6. What would be the probability of picking a face card (i.e. a king, queen, or jack?
A. P(Face) = 12/52 = 3/13 B. P(Face) = 4/52 = 1/13
C. P(Face) = 6/52 = 3/26 D. P(Face) = 8/52 = 2/13
_____7. Which of the following values is not the value of the probability of the random variable?
A. 1.05 B. 0.5 C. 0.15 D. 0.05
_____8. Let 𝑋 be the number of typographical errors found per page in certain books. The table below
shows a probability distribution of 𝑋. What is P(3)?

X 0 1 2 3 4
P(X) 0.70 0.10 0.10 ? 0.05
A. 0.10 B. 0.55 C. 0.05 D. 0.11
_____9. What do you call the weighted average of the possible values that a random variable can take?
A. Variance of discrete random variable B. Simple Variance
C. Mean of discrete random variable D. Simple Mean
_____10. Which of the following statements is a description of high variance?

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 A. The probability of scores is almost the same as the mean.
B. The probability of scores are scattered around the mean.
C. The data are closed to the mean
D. The data are not closed to the mean
_____11. Find the variance of the probability distribution below.

x 1 3 5 7 9
P(x) 0.15 0.35 0.05 0.16 0.29
A. 8.04 B. 8.40 C.9.05 D. 9.50
_____12. The number of boxes of face mask being sold by a pharmacy per day are 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 along
with the probabilities of 0.2, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 respectively. Calculate the mean of the discrete
random variable.
A. 5.9 B. 7.9 C. 6.9 D. 8.9
_____13. What measure should you use to determine how far or close the probability of events from the
center or the mean?
A. Mean of discrete random variable B. Variance of discrete random variable
C. Simple Variance D. Simple Mean
_____14. What do you call the weighted average of the possible values that a random variable can take?
A. Variance of discrete random variable B. Simple Variance
C. Mean of discrete random variable D. Simple Mean
_____15. The number of boxes of face mask being sold by a pharmacy per day are 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 along
with the probabilities of 0.2, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 respectively. Which of the following
statements best interpret the computed mean?
A. The pharmacy would sell more or less 8 boxes of face mask per day.
B. The pharmacy would sell exactly 7 boxes of face mask per day.
C. The pharmacy would sell 8 boxes of face mask per day.
D. The pharmacy would sell more than 7 boxes of face mask per day.
_____16. Matt is working at XYZ bookstore. While doing an inventory, he decided to see just how many
books are being sold in a week. The number of books sold per day at the store varies as shown in the
given probability distribution below. Compute the mean and variance of the probability distribution
in the given situation.

x 2 4 5 7
P(x) 0.2 0.1 n 0.5
A. Mean = 5.3, Variance = 5.21 B. Mean = 5.8, Variance = 1.74
C. Mean = 4.6, Variance = 26.6 D. Mean = 5.3, Variance = 31.9
_____17. What shape is a normal distribution curve?
A. Half curve B. Bell curve C. Round curve D. Square curve

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_____18. Which best describes the shaded part of this normal distribution graph?

A. All data that is one or higher.

B. All data that is one or more standard deviations above the mean.
C. All data that is between 1 and 3.
D. All data that is above the mean.
_____19. What is the area under the normal curve?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3
_____20. When the probability you are looking at is not in the z-table, how will you find its z-score?
A. Randomly choose any probability from the z-table.
B. Look for another z-table, maybe it is in that new z-table.
C. Do not answer the problem.
D. Choose the closest probability.
_____21. This data is normally distributed. What percent of the data is in the shaded region?

A. 68% B. 95% C. 99.7% D. 50%

_____22. Find the area when the z-score is above 1.92.
A. 0.0274 B. 0.0.329 C. 0.5129 D. 0.9726
_____23. Solving for 𝑃48, its z-score lies between what two z-scores?
A. 𝑧=−0.48 and 𝑧=−0.49 B. 𝑧=−0.04 and 𝑧=−0.05
C. 𝑧=−0.47 and 𝑧=−0.48 D. 𝑧=−0.05 and 𝑧=−0.06
_____24. A 12 oz. can of soda has a mean volume of 12 oz, with a standard deviation of 0.25 oz. What is the
percentile for a soda that only has 11.5 oz.?
A. 3rd percentile B. 16th percentile
C. 50th percentile D. 84th percentile
_____25. A survey will be given to 150 students randomly selected from the Grade 12 TVL class of a
certain institution. What is the population?
A. The 150 selected students B. JHS and SHS students of the institution
C. All SHS students D. All Grade 12 students of a certain institution
_____26. From the situation in number 1, what is the sample?
A. The 150 selected students B. All Grade 12 students of a certain institution
C. All JHS and SHS students D. All SHS students in the population

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_____27. Which of the following is most likely a parameter as opposed to a statistic?
A. The average score of the first five learners completing an assignment
B. The proportion of females registered to vote in a county
C. The average height of people randomly selected from a database
D. The proportion of trucks stopped yesterday that were cited for bad brakes
_____28. Before a nation wide election, a polling place was trying to see who would win. Which choice best
represents the statistic?
A. A selection of voters over age 50.
B. The percentage of voters in favor of the candidate.
C. All voters.
D. 53% of the selection of voters support the candidate.
_____29. What happens to the shape of a sampling distribution of sample means as the sample size (n)
increases?
A. It becomes narrower (less variability) and bimodal.
B. It becomes narrower (less variability) and more normal.
C. It becomes wider (more variability) and skewed right.
D. It becomes wider (more variability) and more normal.
_____30. Consider a population with μ=50 and σ=5 is taken. Find the mean of the sampling distribution of
the sample mean with a sample size of 30.
A. 5 B. 20 C. 25 D. 50
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_____31. Consider a population which is normally distributed. If σ =9 and n=9, what is the variance of
the sampling distribution of sample means?
A. 0.5256 B. 0.5625 C. 0.6525 D. 0.6552
_____32. The Central Limit Theorem states that the sampling distribution of the sample mean is
approximately normal under certain conditions. Which of the following is a necessary condition for
the Central Limit Theorem to be used?
A. The sample size must be large (e.g., at least 30).
B. The population size must be large (e.g., at least 30).
C. The population from which we are sampling must be normally distributed.
D. The population from which we are sampling must not be normally distributed.
_____33. What is the purpose of using a random method to get a sample?
A. Increase bias B. Increase variability
C. Reduce bias D. Reduce variability
_____34. A population of 29 year-old males has a mean salary of ₱29,321 with a standard deviation of
₱2,120. If a sample of 100 men is taken, what is the probability their mean salaries will be less than
₱29,000?
A. 0.07 B. 0.08 C. 0.95 D. 0.10
_____35. The numerical population of grade point averages at college has a mean of 2.61 and a standard
Deviation 0.5. If a random sample of size 100 is taken from the population, what is the probability
that the sample mean will be between 2.51?
A. 0.9054 B. 0.9244 C. 0.944 D. 0.9544
_____36. An automobile battery manufacturer claims that its midgrade battery has a mean life of 50 months
with a standard deviation of 6 months. Suppose the distribution of battery lives of this particular
brand is approximately normal. On the assumption that the manufacturer’s claims are true, solve the
probability that a randomly selected battery of this type will last less than 48 months.
A. 0.2525 B. 0.2565 C. 0.3525 D. 0.3707

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_____37. The following statements are true about the properties of t-distribution, EXCEPT
A. The t-distribution is bell shaped. B. It is symmetrical about the mean.
C. The total area under the curve is 100%. D. The curve touches or intersects the x-axis.
_____38. What is the other term for t-distribution?
A. Student’s t-distribution B. Probability distribution
C. Percentile distribution D. Z-distribution
_____39. This refers to the measure of position with data divided into 100 parts.
A. Percentiles B. Quartiles C. Deciles D. Median
_____40. This refers to the maximum number of logically independent values which varies in the data sample.
A. Level of significance B. Degree of freedom
C. Percentiles D. Probability
_____41. Find the t-value of the t distribution with a critical value 𝛼=0.05 and the degree of freedom is 27.
A. 1.703 B. 1. 706 C. 1. 746 D. 1.753
_____42. A confidence interval consists of three parts except
A. Statistic B. Confidence level C. Parameter D. Margin of error
_____43. In a confidence interval, the range of values above and below the sample statistics is called
A. Outlier B. Extreme values
C. Margin of error D. Minimum and maximum values
_____44. What is the length of confidence interval if the lower and upper confidence limits are 36.5 and
42.8, respectively.
A. 3.6 B. 6.3 C. 36.5 D. 42.8
_____45. Compute the length of the confidence interval, given the following data: s = 6.5, n = 15,
confidence level = 99% (t a =2.977 )
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A. 0.005 B. 2.05 C. 6.5 D. 9.99

_____46. A 90% confidence interval for the mean speed driven by cars on East Main St. is given by
(21, 45). What was the sample mean of this study?
A. 12 B. 24 C. 33 D. 42
_____47. A sample size of n = 64 is drawn from a population whose standard deviation is σ = 5.6.
Find the margin of error for a 99% confidence interval for µ.
A. 1.798 B. 1.799 C. 1.803 D. 1.804
_____48. Suppose that a random group of 300 young people were surveyed for their preferred president
candidate if they were to vote. 60 people selected Hilary Clinton and 51 people selected Donald Trump.
Based on the finding, if we want to find a clear winner at the alpha = 0.05 level, what sample size is
recommended?
A. close to 1900 B. close to 2200 C. close to 2500 D. close to 2800

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 Statistics & Probability Grade 11
2nd Semester -Midterm
ANSWER KEY

1. D 25. D

2. B 26. A

3. B 27. C

4. B 28. D

5. D 29. B

6. A 30. D

7. D 31. B

8. A 32. A

9. C 33. C

10. C 34. A

11. C 35. D

12. C 36. D

13. B 37. D

14. C 38. A

15. A 39. A

16. A 40. B

17. B 41. A

18. B 42. C

19. B 43. C

20. D 44. B

21. B 45. D

22. A 46. C

23. D 47. C

24. A 48. C