PERIODICAL EXAMINATION IN STATISTICS & PROBABILITY 11

3rd Quarter S.Y. 2022 – 2023

Name: ___________________________________Grade/Section: ___________Date: _______

Direction: Encircle the circle the letter of the correct answer on the answer sheet.
1. What do you call a variable whose values are determined by chance and is usually denoted by a
capital letter?
A. continuous variable B. constant variable C. random variable D. X-variable
2. Which is a discrete random variable?
A. the average amount of electricity consumed B. the number of patients in a hospital
C. the amount of paint used in repainting a building D. the average weight of female athletes.
X
3. What are the possible values of X, if P(x) = for it to be a probability distribution?
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A. 0, 2, 3 B. 1, 2, 3 C. 1, 1, 2 D. 2, 3, 4
4. Which formula gives the probability distribution shown by the table?
X 2 3 6
1 1 1
P(X)
2 3 6
1 X 6 1
A. P(X) = B. P(X) = C. P(X) = D. P(X) =
X 6 X 6
5. What is the value of c given the probability distribution of the random variable X?
X 1 2 3 4
P(X) 0.21 29c 0.29 0.21
A. 0.01 B. 0.02 C. 0.10 D. 0.20
6. What statistical measure is calculated by summing the product of the square of the difference between
the value of the random variable and the expected value?
A. mean B. median C. standard deviation D. variance
For items 7-8. Refer to the probability distribution shown below:
X 0 1 2 3
P(X) 1 3 3 1
8 8 8 8
7. What is the mean of the probability distribution?
A. 1.2 B. 1.5 C. 1.6 D. 1.8
8. What is the variance in the given probability distribution?
A. 1.25 B. 1.00 C. 0.75 D. 0.50
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9. The probabilities that a customer will buy 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 items in a grocery store in a day are ,
10
1 1 2 3
, , ,and respectively.
10 10
What does10it imply?10
A. The average number of items that the customer will buy in a day is 3.1.
B. The average probability of items that a customer will buy in a day is 3.1.
C. The mean equals to 3.5 is the product of the probability in the distribution.
D. The mean equals to 3.5 is the sum of the probability in the distribution.
10. A researcher surveyed the households in a remote area. The random variable X represents the number of high
school graduates in the households. The probability distribution of X is shown below:
X 0 1 2 3 4
P(X) 0.02 0.18 0.30 0.40 0.10
What is the value of the mean?
A. 8.23 B. 3.28 C. 2.88 D. 2.38
11. What do you call a normal probability distribution that has a mean equals to zero and a standard
deviation equals to 1.
A. measures of central tendency B. measures of variation C. standard mean deviation D.
standard normal curve
12. Which is equal in a normal curve, the mode which is the point on the horizontal axis where the curve
is a maximum occurs at x equals the ____.
A. mean B. standard deviation C. variance D. z-score
13. What do you call an illustration of a line that approaches to the horizontal axis asymptotically as it
proceeded in either direction away from the mean.
A. a deviation graph B. a deviation curve C. a normal curve D. a normal map
14. What can we associate with proportion and percentage when identifying the area in a specified region
under the normal curve in general?
 A. mean B. probability C. standard deviation D. variance
15.
Given the mean μ=50 and the standard deviation σ =5 of a population of Reading scores.
What is the z-score that corresponds to a score X =62?
A. 1.2 B. 1.4 C. 2.0 D.2.4

16. The results of a nationwide aptitude test in Mathematics are normally distributed with mean 75
and standard deviation 6.
What is the score that divides the distribution such that 99% of the cases is below it?
A. 88 B. 90 C. 92 D. 95
17. What do you call the procedure in determining samples from a population in which the selection of a
sample unit is based on chance?
A. mean sampling B. parameters C. probability distribution D. random
sampling
18. Which statements best describe a parameter?
A. It is a descriptive measure computed from a population.
B. It is a descriptive measure computed from a sample.
C. It is a descriptive measure computed from a mean.
D. It is a descriptive measure computed from a standard deviation.
19. A population consists of the numbers 3, 6, 9, 12, 15. Consider samples of size 3 that can
be drawn from this population.
What is the mean of the sampling distribution of sample means?
A. 6.25 B. 7.50 C. 9.00 D. 9.15

20. Consider a population consisting of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Suppose samples of size 2 are drawn
from this population.
What is the variance of the sampling distribution of sample means?
A. 2.00 B. 0.75 C. 0.68 D. 0.50
21. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The mean of the sampling distribution of the means is less than the population mean.
B. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means is greater that the population mean.
C. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means is equal to the population mean.
D. The mean of the samples drawn from a population may be equal, greater than or less than the
population mean.
22. What is the required sample size to obtain a good estimate of the population mean, considering that a
good estimate of the mean is obtained if the standard error of the mean is small or close to zero?
A. approaching to zero B. decreasing C. large D. normal
23. Which defines the sampling distribution of the sample mean using the Central Limit Theorem?
A. If random samples of size 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.
B. If random samples of size n are drawn from a population, then asn becomes smaller, the sampling
distribution of the mean approaches the normal distribution, regardless of the shape of the
population distribution.
C. If random samples of size n are drawn from a population, then asn becomes larger, the sampling
distribution of the mean moves away from the normal distribution, regardless of the shape of the
population distribution.
D. If random samples of size n are drawn from a population, then as n becomes smaller, the sampling
distribution of the mean moves away from the normal distribution, regardless of the shape of the
population distribution.
The average number of milligrams of cholesterol in a cup of a certain brand of ice cream is
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660 mg, and the standard deviation is 35 mg. Assume the variable is normally distributed.
If a cup of ice cream is selected.
What is the probability that the cholesterol content will be more than 670 mg?
A. 0.9853 B. 0.8935 C. 0.3859 D. 0.3589
25. What do you call the specific numerical value of a population parameter?
A. interval estimate B. point estimate C. T statistic D. Z statistic
26. Which statements best describes an interval estimate?
A. It is a single value used to estimate a population parameter.
B. It is a range of values used to estimate a population parameter.
C. It is an unbiased value used to estimate a population parameter.
D. It is a fixed value used to estimate a population parameter.
27. What is the term used to describe the relationship between the sample mean and the population
mean, where the mean of the sampling distribution of sample means is the population mean?
A. error estimator B. infinite estimator C. interval estimator D. point estimator
28. What is the point estimate of the population mean using the 95% confidence level if the population is
120, mean is 72 and standard deviation is 3?
A. 69 B. 70 C. 72 D. 75

When n≥ 30 and the population standard deviation is known.

29What is the appropriate distribution?

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