ARELLANO UNIVERSITY

Senior High School Department

Juan Sumulong Campus
Sampaloc, Manila

FOURTH PERIODICAL EXAMINATION

S.Y 2021-2022

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

DIRECTIONS: Choose the letter that corresponds to the correct answer. STRICTLY NO
ERASURE.
1. It measures the degree of accuracy of the sample mean as an estimate of the population mean.
A. Parameters B. Standard error of the mean C. Statistics D. Variance
2. Which of the following are the 95% confidence coefficients?

A. ± 1.65 B. ± 1.96 C. ± 2.33 D. ± 2.58

3. Which of the following illustrates confidence level?
A. 32.8 B. 30-39 C. 90%-94% D. 90%

4. When X = 50 and n =215, what is the value of p̂ ?

A. 0.23 B. 4.3 C. 50 D. 215

5. When X = 120 and n =406, what is the value of q̂?
A. 0.30 B. 0.70 C. 120 D. 406
6. Which of the following is true about the sampling distribution of the sample mean?
A. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means is less than the
population mean.
B. The mean of the samples drawn from a population are always equal to the
population mean.
C. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means is greater than the
population mean.
D. The mean of the samples drawn from a population are may be equal, greater than
or less than to the population mean.
7. How many possible samples n=2 can be drawn from a population of size 14?
A. 28 B. 56 C. 91 D. 92
8. Consider a population consisting of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Suppose samples of size 3 are drawn
from this population. Which of the following does not count as a sample?
A. 1, 2, 3 C.3, 4, 5
B. 2, 3, 4 D. 3, 3, 4

For numbers 9-10. The mean of the population (µ) is 3.0 and its variance is 2.0. Suppose samples
of size 2 were drawn from the population. Assume that it is infinite.
9. What is the mean of sampling distribution of the sample means?
 A. 3.0 C. 5.0
B. 4.0 D. 6.0
10. Find the variance of the sampling distribution of the sample mean.
A. 0.75 C. 0.87
B. 0.78 D. 1
11. What is the shape of the sampling distribution of the means if random of size n becomes
larger?
A. Skewed to the right C. Normal
B. Skewed to the left D. Rectangular
12. What is the finite population correction factor if the size of the population is 300 and the
sample size is 30?
A. 0.9197 C. 0.9503
B. 0.9917 D. 0.9305
13. Which of the following is the best point estimate of the population mean?
A. Sample Mean C. Population Mean
B. Standard Deviation D. Mode
14. What do you call the range of values that may contain the true parameter value?
A. Interval Estimate C. Confidence level
B. Point Estimate D. Confidence Coefficient
15. Given below are the means of each sample. Compute for the point estimate.

Sample 1 Sample 2 Sample 3 Sample 4 Sample 5

10 10.5 10.25 11 10.75

A. 10. 25 C. 10.75
B. 10.50 D. 11
16. With 95% confidence level, what is the value for ¿ (proportion of the area to the right and
left of the boundaries)?
A. 0.01 C. 0.05
B. 0.025 D. 0.10
17. With ¿ = 0.10, what are the critical values?

A. ± 1.65 C. ± 2.33

B. ± 1.96 D. ± 2.58

For numbers 18-19. The mean water consumption of 10 students in a week is 28 liters with a
standard deviation of 1.6 liters.
18. Consider 95% confidence level, the upper limit is:
A. 29 C. 29.19
B. 29.15 D. 29.32
19. The true population mean falls between ______________.
A. 27 and 29 C. 29.15 and 29.19
B. 29 and 29.15 D. 29.19 and 29.32
20. In a learning style study, 1200 respondents were asked if they can assimilate concepts while
watching television. 586 said yes. With a 95% confidence level, the true population proportion
falls between_____.
A. 44% and 54% C. 46% and 52%
B. 45% and 53% D. 48% and 50%
21. The practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities.
A. Data B. Sample C. Statistics D. Variable
22. It is a subset of a population.
A. Parameter B. Sample C. Statistics D. Variable
23. It is the process of taking a portion from a population.
A. Parameter B. Sampling C. Sample D. Statistics
24. In the given {3,5,7,9,11} what is the average?
A. 13 B. 11 C. 9 D. 7
25. For numbers 25 – 29, refer to the problem below.
Given the population 1,3,4,6 and 8. Suppose samples of size 3 are drawn from this
population.
25. What is the mean of the population.
A. 3.40 B. 4.40 C. 5.40 D. 6.40
26. How many different samples can be drawn from this population?
A. 15 B. 12 C. 11 D. 10
27. What is the variance of this population?
A. 2 B. 3.50 C. 5.84 D. 9
28. What is the value of the standard deviation of the population?
A.2.42 B. 3.10 C. 5 D.7
29. What will be the value of the sample mean of the sampling distribution?
A. 2.20 B. 3.30 C. 4.40 D.5.50
30.At certain population has mean of 15.4 and a standard deviation of 5.6. If a random samples
of size 5 is taken from this population, which of the following statement is correct?
A. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample mean is equal to 15.4.
 B. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample mean is less than 15.4.
C. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean is 5.6.
D. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean is 15.4.
31. Which sample size will give a smaller standard error of the mean.
A. 12 B. 20 C. 25 D.35
For numbers 32-34, refer to the problem below.
The average precipitation for the first 7 months of the year is 19.32 inches with a
standard deviation of 2.4 inches. Assume that the precipitation is normally distributed.
32. What is the probability that a randomly selected year will have a precipitation greater than 18
inches for the first 7 months?
A. 70.88% B. 85.23% C. 45.62% D.12.58%
33. What is the average precipitation of 5 randomly selected years for the first 7 months?
A. 19.32 inches B. 22.4 inches C. 20.52 inches D. 15.56 inches
34. What is the probability of 5 randomly selected years will have an average precipitation
greater than 18 inches for the first 7 months?
A. 89.07% B. 25.87% C. 41.56% D.28.79%
For numbers 35-36, refer to the problem below.
A researcher wants to estimate the numbers of hours that 5 years old children spend
watching television. A sample of 50 five-year old children was observed to have a mean viewing
time of 5 hours. The population is normally distributed with a population standard deviation of
0.5 hours.
35. Find the best point estimate of the population mean.
A. 0.5 B. 3 C.5 D.50
36. Find the 95% confidence interval of the population mean.
A. 2.86 and 3.14 B. 3.14 and 4.56 C. 4.86 and 5.14 D.4.86 and 5.86
37. For a group of 10 men subjected to a stress situation, the mean number of heart beats per
minute was 126, and the standard deviation was 4. What is the 95% confidence interval of the
true mean?
A. 123.52< µ<128.50 C. 123.52¿ µ<128.48
B. 123.18¿ µ<128.48 D. 123.11¿ µ<128.84
38. The average of age of accountants is 43 years, with standard deviation of 5 years. If an
accounting firm employs 30 accountants, what is the probability that the average age of the
group is greater than 44.2 years old?
A. 8.50% B. 9.51% C. 10.53% D.11.26%

39. In a standard normal distribution, what is the value of the mean?

A. 0 B. 1 C.2 D.3
40. How many different samples of size n=5 can be selected from a population N=15.
A.3001 B. 3002 C.3003 D.3004
41. Find the finite population correction factor of N=2000 ,n=10.
A. 1 B. 2 C.3 D.4
42. It is a specific numerical value of a population parameter.
A. Sample Mean B. Point Estimate C. Interval Estimate D. Finite Population
43. If a random samples sizes of n are drawn from a population, then as n becomes larger, the
sampling distribution of the mean approaches the normal distribution, regardless of the shape of
the population distribution.
A. Central Limit Theorem C. Central Mode Theorem
B. Central Mean Theorem D. Central Median Theorem
44. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means is equal to _________.
A. Population Mean C. Standard Deviation
B. Population Variance D. Variance
45. What is the mean of 15,16,17,19 and 22?
A. 15.6 B.16.7 C. 17.8 D.18.9
46. What do you call processes involved in making conclusions about a population values?
A. Estimating parameters C. Inferential Statistics
B. Hypothesis Testing D. Descriptive Statistics
47. Which of these values is a parameter?
A. B. X C. µ D. z
48. The _____________ is a range of values that contains the parameter value.
A. Confidence Limit C. Confidence Estimate
B. Confidence Interval D. Confidence Level
49. Which of the following shows graphical results in making inferences about a population
values?
A. Pie graph C. Trend line
B. Bar graph D. Normal curve

50. Given: n=50, σ =12 , and α =0 . 1 . The maximum error E is approximately:

A. 0.330 B. 0.39 C. 0.44 D. none of these
“Life is not just a series of calculations and a sum of total of statistics, it’s about experience, it’s about participation, it is
something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious”.

- Daniel Libeskind