SAN ANDRES NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

(Formerly Camflora National High School)

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
San Andres, Quezon

QUESTIONNAIRE
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
STATISTICS & PROBABILITY
2nd Semester, School Year 2023-2024

Examination Guidelines:
 Cellphones are not allowed
 Calculators and z-tables are allowed
 Answer the questions with all honesty and avoid cheating

Directions: Choose the best answer and shade the circle that corresponds to the letter of your
answer on the separate answer sheet.

1. Which of the following BEST defines a discrete random variable?

A. A variable that is always positive.
B. A variable that follows a continuous distribution.
C. A variable that can only take on specific, distinct values.
D. A variable that can take on any value within a given range.
2. In illustrating the graph of a probability distribution, what graph is applicable?
A. Chart B. Histogram C. Pie graph D. Scatter plot
3. If X represents the number obtained when rolling a fair six-sided die, what are the possible
values of X?
A. {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} B. {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} C. [1, 6] D. [0, 6]
4. If two coins are tossed, which is NOT a possible value of the random variable for the number of
heads?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3
5. If Y represents the weight of apples harvested from an orchard, what type of random variable is Y
most likely to be?
A. Conceptual B. Continuous C. Discrete D. Finite
6. What should be the probability of each value of the random variable?
A. 0< P ( X )< 1 B. 0 ≤ P ( X ) ≤ 1 C. 1< P ( X ) <0 D. 1 ≤ P ( X ) < 0
7. Given the distribution below, does it represent a discrete probability distribution?
A. Yes, because ∑ P ( x )=1
B. No, because P(X) are not decimals.
C. No, because P(X) are not all the same.
D. No, because there is no number 1 in X
8. What is the formula for the mean of a random variable with a discrete probability
distribution?
∑x ∑x
A. μ=∑ x ⋅ P ( x ) B. μ=∑ x2 ⋅ P ( x ) C. μ= D. μ=
N n
9. What does this symbol σ represents?
A. the mean C. summation
B. standard deviation D. the variance
10. What can we generate if we take the summation of the product of each value assigned to the
random variable and its corresponding probability?
A. Expected Value C. Standard Deviation
B. Probability value D. Variance
11. Which of the following is also equal to the square root of the variance?
A. mean B. median C. standard deviation D. variance
12. Suppose that a coin is to be tossed four times, and let X represent “the number of TAILS that
can come up”, what are the possible values of the random variable X?
A. 0 B. 0, 1 C. 1, 2,3 D. 0, 1, 2 ,3, 4
For numbers 13 – 14 refer to the table below:

13. What is the mean of the data?

A. 2 B. 2.2 C. 3.0 D. 6.4

14. If the variance of the given data is 1.56, what is the

standard deviation?
A. 1.00 B. 1.25 C. 1.56 D. 4.2
15. In a discrete probability distribution, the computed standard deviation is equal to 0.92, what
will be the value of its variance?
A. 0.85 B. 2.40 C. 4.2 D. 6.60
16. Which procedures should be followed to determine the discrete random variable's expected
value?
A. Get the squared sum of the difference of each value of a discrete random variable and its
probability.
B. Get the summation of the difference of each value of a discrete random variable and its
probability.
C. Get the summation of the product of each value of a discrete random variable and its
probability.
D. Get the square root of the summation of the product of each value of a discrete random
variable and its probability
17. How is the standard deviation of a discrete random variable computed?
A. Taking the square of the variance.
B. Multiplying the mean and the variance
C. Extracting the square root of the variance
D. Summing up all the products of X and P(X).
18. The Expected Value is the sum of the products of each possible value of a random variable and
that value’s probability. If that is the definition of the Expected Value, what corresponds to it?
A. mean B. median C. standard deviation D. variance
19. What formula is described by σ =√ ∑ x 2 ⋅ P ( x )−μ2?
A. the mean of a discrete random variable
B. the variance of a discrete random variable
C. the expected value of a discrete random variable
D. the standard deviation of a discrete random variable
20. In the 50-item test, Miss Santos, a Mathematics teacher, claimed that most of the students’
scores lie closer to 40. In this situation, which of the following terms parallel the score of 40?
A. Expected Value B. Median C. Standard Deviation D. Variance
21. What is the defining shape of a normal random variable?
A. Bell-shaped B. Skewed left C. Skewed right D. Uniform
22. Which of the following graphs is the BEST example of the normal curve?
A. B. C. D.

23. How would you describe this graph?

A. The shaded region of the normal curve is below the z=1
B. The shaded region of the normal curve is above the z=−1
C. The shaded region of the normal curve is between z=0 & z=1
D. The shaded region of the normal curve is between z=−1 & z=1

24. What is another term used for standard normal score?

A. mean score B. t-score C. x-score D. z-score
25. What is the area under the standard normal curve between z=−1 and z=1?
A. 0.5000 B. 0.6826 C. 0.9544 D. 0.9974
26. If a normally distributed variable has a mean of 80 and a standard deviation of 5, what is the z-
score for a value of 85?
A. 1.0 B. 1.5 C. 3.0 D. 0.6
27. What is the value of x in if z = 2.25; µ = 70; 𝜎 = 9?
A. -49.75 B. 35.11 C. 90.25 D. 148.5
28. SANHS administered the National Achievement Test for Grade 12 students. The test for Grade
12 students has a mean score of 115 and a standard deviation of 10. If Paula, a Grade-12 student
has a z-score of 1.25, what is her score on the test?
A. 127 B. 128 C. 129 D. 130
29. What Is the probability indicated by P(z ←1.9)?
A. 0.0287 B. 0.4505 C. 0.7745 D. 0.8910
30. Based on the figure shown below, which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
A. The total area of the shaded region is 0.9544 or 95.44%.
B. The total probability of the shaded area is 0.9974 or
99.74%.
C. At the base of the normal curve, the shaded region has 2
standard deviations to the left and 2 to the right.
D. The distribution is symmetrical below and above the mean, which have the same percentages
of 0.4772 or 47.72%.
31. What is the primary goal of simple random sampling?
A. To intentionally bias the sample
B. To select individuals based on convenience.
C. To choose individuals based on specific characteristics.
D. To ensure every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected.
32. Which of these values is a symbol for a parameter?
A. X B. μ C. s D. t
33. How many possible samples of size n=4 can be drawn from a population of size 5?
A. 2 B. 5 C. 10 D. 15
34. What is the right symbol for the expression “The mean of the means is equal to the population
mean μ .”?
A. X x =μ x B. μ x =μ C. X =μ D. X =μx
35. What is the formula for finding the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample mean?
∑x ∑x
A. μ=∑ x ⋅ P ( x ) B. μ=∑ x2 ⋅ P ( x ) C. μ= D. μ x =
N n
36. How does the central limit theorem apply to the sampling distribution of the sample mean?
A. It ensures that the sampling distribution will always be normally distributed.
B. It guarantees that the sampling distribution will have the same mean as the population.
C. It dictates that the sampling distribution will have a variance equal to the population
variance.
D. It states that as the sample size increases, the sampling distribution approaches a normal
distribution.
37. Which of the following is NOT a step in creating a sampling distribution of the sample mean?
A. Determine the number of sets of all possible random samples.
B. Compute the standard deviation and variance of the samples.
C. Construct a frequency distribution table of the sample means and probability.
D. List all the possible random samples and solve for the sample mean of each set of
samples.
38. Consider a scenario where ∑ (x−μ x ) =39 and n=9what will be the value of the standard
2

deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample means?

A. 39 B. 13 C. 4.3 D. 2.08
39. If the population mean is 25, what will be the value of the mean of the sample means?
A. 0 C. cannot be computed
B. 25 D. lack of information
40. Considering a population consisting of the values (1, 3, and 5) and sample of size 2 will be
drawn from this. Figure A shows the histogram of without replacement and Figure B shows the
histogram of with replacement. Which of this will approach a normal distribution according to
Central Limit Theorem?

A. Figure A Figure A: Without Figure B: With

B. Figure B Replacement Replacement
C. Both Figure
D. None of them

Checked by:

ANA LOU R. RAZO

SHS MASTER TEACHER I