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THIRD QUARTERLY TEST

STATISTICS AND PROBABILTY

1. If two coins are tossed once, which is NOT a possible value of the random
variable for the number of heads?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3
2. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?
A. Length of wire ropes
B. Number of soldiers in the troop
C. Amount of paint used in repainting the building
D. Voltage of car batteries

3. Which formula gives the probability distribution shown by the table?

A. P(X) = X B. P(X) = 1/X C. P(X) = X/3 D. P(X) = X/5

4. How many ways are there in tossing two coins once?

A. 4 B. 3 C. 2 D. 1

5. It is a numerical quantity that is assigned to the outcome of an

experiment.
A. random variable B. variable C. probability D. probability
distribution

6. It is the central or average of its corresponding probability mass function.

A. mean C. standard deviation
B. variance D. probability

7. Determine the Mean or Expected Value of random variable below

A. 2.53 C. 2.55
B. 2.54 D. 2.56

8. What is the mean outcome if a pair of die is rolled once?

A. 1.5 C. 3.5
B. 2.5 D. 4.5
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9. Find the mean of the probability distribution involving the random variable
X that gives the number of heads that appear after tossing four coins once.
A. 4 C. 2
B. 3 D. 1

10. The probabilities that a printer produces 0,1,2, and 3 misprints are 42%,
28%, 18%, and 12% respectively. What is the mean value of the random
variable?
A. 1 C. 3
B. 2 D. 4
11. The random variable X, representing the number of nuts in a chocolate
bar has the following probability distribution. What is the mean?

A. 1.5 C. 1.7
B. 1.3 D. 1.9

12. These are two values that describe how scattered or spread out the
scores are from the mean value of the random variable.
A. variance and standard deviation
B. mean and probability distribution
C. probability and statistics
D. mean and variance

For numbers 13 and 14.

Complete the table below using mean (µ) = 5. Write the answer in your
answer sheets.

Compute for the variance and standard deviation of the Probability

Distribution table of the Random Variable X.
A. Variance = 5; Standard Deviation = 2.24
B. Variance = 4; Standard Deviation = 3.24
C. Variance = 3; Standard Deviation = 4.24
D. Variance = 2; Standard Deviation = 5.24

13. Which of the following illustrations represents normal distribution?

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14. What is another name for normal distribution?

A. Gaussian distribution
B. Poisson distribution
C. Bernoulli’s distribution
D. Probability distribution

15. What is the total area in the distribution under the normal curve?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3

16. Which of the following is a parameter of normal distribution?

A. mean C. mean and standard deviation
B. standard deviation D. none of the above

17. The graph of a normal distribution is symmetrical about the ________.

A. mean C. mean and standard deviation
B. standard deviation D. none of the above

18. What percent of the area under a normal curve is within 2 standard
deviations?
A. 68.3% B. 95.4% C. 99.7% D. 100%

19. How many standard deviations are there in each inflection point?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3

20. Which of the following denotes the standard normal distribution?

A. A B. X C. Y D. Z

21. A random variable X has a mean of 12 and a standard deviation of 3.2.

What is the corresponding z-score for x = 8?
A. -1.25 B. -1.50 C. -1.75 D. -2.25

21. It refers to the entire group that is under study or investigation.

A. population B. sample C. random sampling D. subset

22. It is a subset taken from a population, either by random or nonrandom

sampling techniques.
A. population B. sample C. random sampling D. lottery sampling
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23. What sampling technique in which members of the population are listed
and samples are selected in intervals called sample intervals.
A. systematic sampling B. lottery sampling
C. stratified random sampling D. quota sampling

24. It is sometimes called area sampling, it applies on a geographical basis.

A. systematic sampling C. stratified random sampling
B. lottery sampling D. cluster sampling

25. It refers to a part of the sampling technique where each sample point has
an equal chance of being selected.
A. systematic sampling C. random sampling
B. lottery sampling D. quota sampling

26. Which sample size gives a smaller standard error of the mean according
to Central Limit theorem?
A. 10 B. 15 C. 25 D. 35

27. The Central Limit Theorem says that the sampling distribution of the
sample mean is approximately normal if __________.
A. the sample size is large.
B. all possible sample are selected.
C. the standard error of the sampling mean is small.
D. none of the above.

28. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means according to
the Central Limit Theorem is __________.
A. exactly equal to the population mean.
B. close to the population mean if the sample size is large.
C. equal to the population mean divided by the square of the sample size.
D. cannot be determined.

29. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample means
according to the Central Limit Theorem is __________.
A. exactly equal to the standard deviation.
B. close to the population standard deviation if the sample size is large.
C. equal to the population standard deviation divided by the square root of
the sample size.
D. cannot be determined

30. Samples of size 25 are selected from a population with a mean of 40 and
a standard deviation of 7.5. What is the mean of the sampling distribution of
sample means?
A. 7.5 B. 8 C. 25 D. 40

31. Samples of size 25 are selected from a population with a mean of 40 and
a standard deviation of 7.5. What is the standard error of the sampling
distribution of sample means?
A. 0.3 B. 1.5 C. 7.5 D. 8

32. What happens to the shape of a sampling distribution of sample means

as n increases?
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A. It becomes narrower and more normal C. It becomes narrower and
bimodal
B. It becomes wider and more normal D. It becomes wider and skewed
right

33. In a group of 20 randomly selected unicorns, the mean is 1,000 and the
standard deviation is 25, what is the standard deviation of the sampling
distribution?
A. 25 B. 5.59 C. 4 D. 1.25

34. A group of 625 students has a mean age of 15.8 years with a standard
deviation of 0.6 years. The ages are normally distributed. What is the
probability that a randomly selected students are older than 16.5 years old?
A. 12.1% B. 86.4% C. 87.9% D. 13.6%

35.If the random samples are large, what is the shape of the sampling
distribution of the mean?
A. skewed to the left C. normal
B. skewed to the right D. rectangular

36.These symbols  and  represent the mean and standard deviation for
which of the following choices?
A. The Population C. The Sampling Distribution
B. The Sample D. None of these

For numbers 37-40, 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 average
precipitation is normally distributed.

37.What is the average precipitation of 5 randomly selected years for the

first 7 months?
A. 19.32 in B. 22.4 in C. 20.52 in D. 15.56 in

38.What is the probability that a randomly selected year will have

precipitation greater than 18 inches for the first 7 months?
A. 0.7088 B. 0.8523 C. 0.4562 D. 0.1258

39.Compute the z-score for precipitation of 18 inches for 5 randomly

selected years for the first 7 months.
A. – 0.55 B. 0.55 C. 1. 23 D. – 1.23

40.What is the probability of 5 randomly selected years will have an average

precipitation greater than 18 inches for the first 7 months?
A. 0.8907 B. 0.2587 C. 0.4156 D. 0.2879

41. What is the other term for t-distribution?

A. Z-distribution C. Percentile distribution
B. Probability distribution D. Student’s t-distribution

42. This refers to the maximum number of logically independent values

which varies in the data sample.
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A. Level of significance C. Degree of freedom
B. Percentiles D. Probability

43. This refers to the measure of position whose data is divided into 100
parts.
A. Percentiles C. Deciles
B. Quartiles D. Median

44. What is the level of significance if the confidence interval is 90%?

A. 0.05 B. 0.10 C. 0.005 D. 0.25

45. What will be the degree of freedom of the data with a sample size of 20?
A. 17 B. 18 C. 19 D. 20

For number 6 to 8, use the given data below to answer the following
questions.
“There are 9 students who will be taking up the test, the researcher sets the
level of significance to 0.05. The following are the scores of nine students in
the test:

23, 25, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 40, 45

46. What will be the t-value of the given problem?

A. 1.729 B. 1.456 C. 1.612 D. 1.551

47. Using the t-table, give the value of 25th percentile.

A. 25 B. 26 C. 27 D. 28

48. What will be the t-value of 95th percentile?

A. 1.729 B. 1.456 C. 1.612 D. 1.551

49. What will be the degree of freedom with a t-value of 1 and a sample size
of 2?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

50.Find the t-value of 2.5th percentile on the t-table with a degree of

freedom of 6.
A. 2.570 B. 4.030 C. -2.570 D. -4.030

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