Third Quarter Examination

Statistics and Probability

Direction: Write the letter of the correct answer on your answer sheet.
_______1.) Which of the following is not what Statistics is about?
A.) collection of data B.) analysis of data C.) interpretation of data D.) manipulation of data
_______2.) Which of the following refers to the value that generalizes the population?
A.) Parameter B.) statistic C.) sample D.) random sampling
_______3.) This is a sampling technique wherein the researcher divides the entire population into different
subgroups, then randomly selects the final sample participants proportionally from the different subgroups.
A.) Simple Random Sampling B.) Cluster Sampling C.) Systematic Sampling D.) Stratified Sampling
_______4.) Identify the kind of sampling technique to be used in the situation: Every 12th customer entering a
shopping mall is asked to select his/her favorite store.
A.) Random B.) stratified C.) systematic D.) Cluster.
_______5.) Consider the set of data: 3, 9, 12, 14,16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25; Which value corresponds [ Q 3]?
A. 21 B. 22 C. 20.5 D. 21.5
_______6.) Which of the following divides the given set of data into one hundred equal parts?
A.) Percentiles B.) quartiles C.) deciles D.) quantiles
_______7.) In a left-skew distribution, what is the relationship between the mean and median?
  A.) Median is larger than the mean C.) Mean is larger than the median
B.) They are about the same D.) No relationship
_______8.) What kind of distribution is this?
 
A.) Right-skew B.) Left-skew
C.) Symmetric D.) Exponential

_______9.) Which of the following is a random variable whose possible values can be counted?
A.) discrete B.) continuous C.) discrete D.) continues
_______10.) Identify which of the following qualifies as a discrete random variable.
A.) shoe size B.) number of siblings C.) body weight D.) water consumption
_______11.) Which of the following is a quantitative variable?
A.) Nationality B.) Marital status C. monthly phone bills D.) Learner’s Reference Number
_______12.) The ranking of tennis players is classified as what according to level of measurement?
A.) nominal B.) ordinal C.) interval D.) ratio
_______13.) A type of data that is collected by a researcher directly from the source of information.
A.) primary data B. Secondary data C. nominal data D.) interval data
_______14.) A college administrator is trying to determine the percentage of students at the college who work while
in school. She commissions a random survey of 100 college students. What kind of data collection is she using?
A.) Surveying B.) Experimental C.) Direct observation D.) Census
_______15.) Each choice contains an interval of numbers extracted from a frequency distribution table.
Which of the following interval of numbers have a class width of 6?
A.) 13 – 24 B.) 90 – 96 C.) 80 – 88 D.) 20 - 25
_______16.) Which type of chart or graph is most suitable for showing the rate of something, i.e. , a rising trend or a
falling trend in a set of data over a period of time.
A.) line graph B.) pie chart C.) histogram D.) ogive
_______17.) Which graph would you choose to represent the data in a frequency distribution table?
A.) line graph B.) bar chart C.) ogive D.) histogram
_______18.) Based on this frequency ogive, how many students answered the Math problem set?

A.) 195
B.) 105
C.) 30
D.) Cannot be determined
_______19.) The given pie chart represents how 500 students
surveyed spent their free time. How many students
engage in the most popular activity based on this chart?
A.) 19 students
B.) 39 students
C.) 195 students
D.) 225 students
_______20.) The standard deviation of the sample mean is called the standard error of the mean. This is equal to
A.) σ B.) σ / √ n C.) μ D.) X́ μ
_______21.) What is the mean of the data set that contains the numbers 1, 3, 5?
A.) 1 B.) 2 C.) 3 D.) 4
_______22.) In the data: 67, 72, 75, 81, 84, 88,92; What is the median?
A.) 76 B.) 75 C.) 84 D.) 81
_______23.) Find the mode of: 27, 23, 31, 30, 26, 23, 35.
A.) 23 B.) 26 C.) 27 D.) 30
_______24.) What is the range of 49, 34, 41, 55, 30, 61, 58?
A.) 28 B.) 30 C.) 31 D.) 32
_______25.) What is the formula below used to compute for?
A.) Standard Deviation
B.) Variance
C.) Range
D.) Average Standard Deviation
_______26.) Which of the following is not a random variable?
A.) The number of teachers in each school in the Philippines
B.) The number of babies born on 2015 in the Philippines
C.) The time it takes for each student to finish an exam
D.) The amount of water drank by each student every day
_______27.) Which of the following is a property of a probability distribution?
A.) The sum of the probabilities of a random variable must be equal to one.
B.) The sum of the probabilities of a random variable must be equal to zero.
C.) The sum of the probabilities of a random variable can be equal to a negative number.
D.) The sum of the probabilities of a random variable can be greater than one.
_______28.) In an experiment of tossing three coins, how many elements are there in the sample space?
A.) four B.) six C.) five D.) eight
_______29.) Calculate the expected value of the random variable with the given probability distribution.
1 C.) 3
A.) 2 D.) 4
_______30.) Which of the following is the correct formula for binomial probability distribution?
x n− x
A.) P ( X )=❑n C x q p C.) P ( X )= p x qn− x
B.) P ( X )=❑n C x p x qn− x D.) P ( X )=q x pn− x
_______31.) The burglar alarm system has 6 fail-safe components. The probability of each failing is 0.05. Let X be the
number of defective components of the burglar alarm system. What is the probability of success?
A.) 0.05 B.) 0.95 C. 0.6 D. 0.4
_______32.) In number 31, Find the probabilities, exactly 2 will fail?
A.) 0.0884 B.) 0.0041 C.) 0.0305 D.) 0.4231
_______33.) Which of the following questions is an example of Poisson Probability Distribution?
A.) Say in a given stream there are an average of 3 striped trout per 100 yards. What is the probability of
seeing 5 striped trout in the next 100 yards?
B.) If there are ten hamsters, five males and five females, what is the probability of drawing two of the same
sex? (With hamsters, it’s virtually a random selection.)
C.) A test consists of 5 questions, and to pass the test, a student has to answer at least 3 questions correctly.
D.) Each question has 3 possible answers, of which only one is correct. If a student guesses on each
question, what is the probability that the student will get a score of 4?
_______34) If there are ten hamsters, five males and five females, what is the probability of drawing two hamsters
of the same sex? (With hamsters, it’s virtually a random selection.)
 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
A.)
( 1 )( 1 )
B.)
( 0 )( 2 )
C.)
( 2 )( 0 )
D.)
( 1 )( 1 )

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_______35.) The area of the region to the left of Z=z under the standard normal curve is 0.67. Find z
A.) 0.7486 B.) 0.2514 C.) 0.44 D.) 0.56
_______36.) A student’s grade on an exam was transformed into a z-value and turned to be negative. Which of the
following is the correct interpretation for this?
A.) The student scored lower than 75% of the class. C.) The student got a failing grade.
B.) The student scored above 50% of the class. D.) The student scored below the mean.
_______37.) A survey found that women spend an average of ₱147 on beauty products during summer months.
Assuming the standard deviation is ₱30, find the percentage of women who spend less than ₱160.
A.) 78% B.) 68.08% C.) 66.64% D.) 4.33%
_______38.) What is the mean and standard deviation of the standard normal distribution?
A.) mean = 0, standard deviation = 0 C.) mean = 1, standard deviation = 1
B.) mean = 0, standard deviation = 1 D.) mean = 1, standard deviation = 0
_______39.) Find the area of the region to the left of Z=2.9 under the standard normal curve.
A.)0 0.0019 B.)0.9817 C.) 0.9981 D.) 0.0183
_______40.) What is P( Z > −3)?
A.) 0.0003 B.) 0.9987 C.) -0.0003 D.) -0.9997
_______41.) What is the area of the region between Z=1and Z=2 under the standard normal curve?
A.) 0.1359 B.) -0.1359 C.) 0.0395 D.) -0.0395
_______42.) A survey indicates that for each trip to a supermarket, a shopper spends an average of 45 minutes with
a standard deviation of 12 minutes in the supermarket. The lengths of time spent in the supermarket are
normally distributed. How many shoppers are expected to stay for more than 39 minutes if there would be
500 people who enters the supermarket?
A.) 148 B.) 245 C.) 346 D.) 423
_______43.)The average age of accountants is 43 years, with a standard deviation of 5 years. If an accounting firm
employs 30 accountants, find the probability that the average age of the group is greater than 44.2 years old?
A.) 0.6734 B.) 0.8743 C.) 0.4066 D.) 0.0934

_______44.) Which of the sample mean has the least probability to occur?
A.) 1.7
B.) 2
C.) 3.2
D.) 3.5

_______45.) How can the standard error be reduced in surveys?

A.) by increasing the sample size C.) by decreasing the sample size
B.) by increasing the population size D.) by decreasing the population size
_______46.) The number of shoes owned by six persons are 10, 9, 14,12,7 and 8. If x is the number of shoes owned
by a person, find ∑ (x−6)
A.) 21 B.) 22 C.) 23 D.) 24
_______47.) For the stem and leaf plot at the right,
what is the median value?
A.) 34.5
B.) 33
C.) 36
D.) 23.5

_______48.) What is the area of the entire region under the normal curve?
A.) 0.10 B.) 0.50 C.) 1 D.) 2
_______49.) A set of data is normally distributed with mean of 37 and a standard deviation of 6. If a normal
variable x=15 is selected, what is the equivalent z-score?
A.) -3.67 B.) 3.67 C.) -1.67 D.) 1.67
________50.) Find your quarterly grade.
A.) 84%
B.) 85%
C.) 86%
D.) 87%