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Department of Education
Region III
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF ZAMBALES
Iba, Zambales
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SCHOOLS DIVISION POST TEST

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Direction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. If three coins are tossed, which is not a possible value of the random variable for
the number of tails?
a. 1 c. 3
b. 0 d. 4
2. Which of the following is not a true statement?
a. The value of the random variable could be zero.
b. Random variables can only have one value.
c. The probability of the value of a random variable could be zero.
d. The sum of all the probabilities in a probability distribution is always equal to
one.
𝑋
3. If P(X) = , what are the possible values of 𝑋 for it to be a probability distribution?
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a. 0, 2, 3 c. 2, 3, 4
b. 1, 2, 3 d. 1, 1, 2

Refer to the probability distribution below.

X 0 2 4 6 8
1 1 1 1 1
P(X)
5 5 5 5 5

4. What is the mean of the probability distribution?

a. 1.5 c. 3.5
b. 2.0 d. 4.0
5. What is the variance of the probability distribution?
a. 4.15 c. 8.00
b. 6.35 d. 7.50
6. Which of the following is NOT true of a normal probability distribution?
a. The distribution curve is bell-shaped.
b. The width of the curve is determined by the variance of the distribution.
c. The area under the curve is 1.
d. The curve is symmetrical about its center.
7. A Probability and Statistics student obtains a raw score of 63. If the class mean is
53 and the standard deviation is 5, what is the z-score of the student?
a. 2.0 c. 3.0
b. 1.0 d. 4.0
8. In the National Achievement Test for Grade 10, Robert obtained a score of 83.
This raw score corresponds to a z-score of 0.27. This in turn corresponds to an
area of 0.1064 in the normal curve. What is Robert’s percentile rank?
a. 60.64 c. 83.64
b. 27.10 d. 56.27
9. In a standard normal distribution, what percent of the area falls below the
mean?
a. 100% c. 50%
b. 75% d. 25%
10. Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between
parameter and statistics?
a. Parameter has a sampling distribution with the statistics as its mean.
 b. Parameter has a sampling distribution that can be used to determine what
values the statistics is likely to have in repeated samples.
c. Parameter is used to estimate statistics.
d. Statistics is used to estimate parameter.
11. Which of the following statements is correct?
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 than
the population mean.
c. The mean of the samples drawn from a population are always equal to the
population mean.
d. The means of the samples drawn from a population may be equal, greater
than or less than the population mean.
12. How many possible samples of size n=4 can be drawn from a population of size
10?
a. 40 c. 105
b. 16 d. 100
13. What is the shape of the sampling distribution of the means if random samples of
size n become larger?
a. left skewed c. rectangular
b. normal d. right skewed
14. Convenience sampling is an example of
a. probabilistic sampling c. non-probabilistic sampling
b. stratified sampling d. d. cluster sampling
15. A certain population has a mean of 12.7 and a standard deviation of 4.8. If
random samples of size 5 is taken from this population, which of the following
statements is correct?
a. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means is equal to 12.7.
b. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means is less than 12.7.
c. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample means is
4.8.
d. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample means is
12.7.
16. What term is used to describe processes involved in making conclusions about
population values?
a. estimating parameters c. inferential statistics
b. hypothesis testing d. descriptive statistics
17. Which of the following best represents the central value of a set of data?
a. variance c. proportion
b. average d. standard deviation
18. Which is a single value that may refer to a parameter value?
a. Z statistic c. Point estimate
b. T statistic d. Interval estimate
19. It is the probability that a parameter is contained in a range of values.
a. confidence level c. confidence coefficient
b. confidence limit d. confidence interval
20. What is the value resulting from subtracting the maximum error from the sample
mean?
a. point estimate c. lower limit of interval estimate
b. interval estimate d. upper limit of interval estimate

For Questions 21-26, please refer to the situation below.

The mean gasoline consumption of 10 cars is 28 liters with a standard deviation of
1.6 liters. Find the point and the interval estimates using 95% confidence level.

21. What is 𝛼?
a. 95% c. 28
b. 10 d. 1.6
22. What is the point estimate of 𝜇?
a. 95% c. 28
b. 10 d. 1.6
23. What is the appropriate distribution?
a. Z c. p
b. t d. s
24. What are the confidence coefficients?
a. ±1.96 c. ±2.33
b. ±2.26 d. ±2.58
25. The lower limit is approximately:
a. 27 c. 26.81
b. 26.85 d. 26.68
26. The upper limit is:
a. 29 c. 29.19
b. 29.15 d. 29.32
27. This refers to an intelligent guess about a population proportion.
a. Hypothesis c. Decision
b. Test Statistic d. Interpretation
28. What mathematical model is appropriate for decision-making?
a. Graphical representation c. z-statistic
b. Normal Curve d. None of these
29. When the null hypothesis is rejected, which of the following is true?
a. There is sufficient evidence to back up the decision.
b. There is no sufficient evidence to back up the decision.
c. The conclusion is guaranteed.
d. The conclusion is not guaranteed.
30. A type II error occurs when:
a. the null hypothesis is incorrectly accepted when it is false
b. the null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected when it is true
c. the sample mean differs from the population mean
d. the test is biased
31. For the 99% confidence level:
a. 𝛼=.01 c. 𝛼=.10
b. 𝛼=.05 d. 𝛼 = .25
32. Which of the following is the standard deviation of sample proportions?
𝑝0
a. √𝑝𝑞 c. √ ∙𝑛
𝑞0
𝑝 𝑝0 𝑞0
b. √ d. √
𝑞 𝑛
33. For a z-test of proportions, which of the following is the rejection region for a one-
tailed test?
a. 𝑧 > 𝑧𝑎 c. 𝑧 > 𝑧𝑎/2
b. 𝑧 < 𝑧𝑎 d. 𝑧 < 𝑧𝑎/2
34. For a z-test of proportions, which of the following is the rejection region for a two-
tailed test?
a. 𝑧 > 𝑧𝑎 or 𝑧 > −𝑧𝑎 c. 𝑧 < 𝑧𝑎 or 𝑧 > −𝑧𝑎
b. 𝑧 > −𝑧𝑎 or 𝑧 > 𝑧𝑎/2 d. 𝑧 < −𝑧𝑎 or 𝑧 > 𝑧𝑎/2
2 2
35. If 𝑝0 = 0.37, what is 𝑞0 ?
a. 0.37 c. 0.63
b. 0.73 d. 0.53
36. In a z-test of proportions, the computed z lies in the rejection region. This means
that:
a. the sample proportion is equal to the hypothesized proportion
b. the sample proportion is equal to the population proportion
c. the sample proportion is not equal to the hypothesized proportion
d. the sample proportion is not equal to the population proportion
37. In a one-tailed z-test of proportions, the comparative statement is 0.35>0.42.
What decision should be made about H0?
a. Reject H0 c. sample proportion > population proportion
b. Accept H0 d. sample proportion < population proportion
38. A null hypothesis can only be rejected at the 5% significance level if and only if:
a. a 95% confidence interval includes the hypothesized value of the parameter
b. a 95% confidence interval does not include the hypothesized value of the
parameter
c. the null hypothesis is void
d. the null hypotheses includes sampling error
39. If a teacher is trying to prove that new method of teaching math is more
effective than traditional one, he/she will conduct a:
a. one-tailed test c. point estimate of the population parameter
b. two-tailed test d. confidence interval
40. Which of the following statements is true?
a. A statistical hypothesis is a claim or assertion about the values of parameters.
b. A test of hypothesis is a method for using sample data to decide whether the
null hypothesis should be rejected.
c. A type II error consists of not rejecting the null hypothesis is false.
d. All of the above statements are true.
41. Assuming that the computed value of 𝑟 of the scores of students in a
Mathematics test and in an English test is 0.89. What does it mean?
a. The Mathematics scores are related to the English scores.
b. There is a positive relationship between Mathematics scores and English
scores.
c. There is a negative relationship between the Mathematics scores and English
scores.
d. High scores in Mathematics are associated with low scores in English.
42. The scatter diagram of two variables show that scores are evenly spread in all
directions. What does this mean?
a. There is a high positive correlation between the two variables.
b. There is a low negative correlation between the two variables.
c. There is a high negative correlation between the two variables.
d. There is no correlation between the two variables.
43. Which bivariate data are most likely positively associated?
I. The monthly income and the floor area of the residence of the family.
II. The number of absences of a student and his academic performance.
a. I only c. both I and II
b. II only d. neither
44. Which of these most likely describes the correlation between grades in math and
physics?
a. strong, positive c. weak, positive
b. strong, negative d. weak, negative
45. The coefficient of correlation r between two bivariate data is -0.9. Which best
describes the correlation?
a. There is no correlation because the computed r is negative.
b. The correlation is very high but negative.
c. The correlation is very low but negative.
d. The strength of correlation is negligible.
46. The number of independent variable/s in the simple linear regression is:
a. zero c. two
b. one d. three
47. Which of the following represents the change in dependent variable for every
increase of one unit in the independent variable?
a. x-intercept c. slope of the regression line
b. y-intercept d. variation of score
48. Research shows that the emotional intelligence of a person is related to his/her
academic performance. Likewise, academic performance is related to job
 performance. Which ordered pair of variables corresponds to the ordered pair
(dependent, independent)?
I. (job performance, academic performance)
II. (academic performance, intelligence)
a. I only c. both I and II
b. II only d. neither
49. A student conducted a regression analysis between the math grades of his
classmates and the number of times they were absent in the subject. He found
that the regression line that will predict the grade (y) if the number of absences
(x) is known is y = 97.732 – 2.61x. What is the predicted grade of a student who
has no absences?
a. 93 c. 97
b. 98 d. 95
50. Suppose there is a correlation of r = 0.9 between number of hours per day
students study and GPAs. Which of the following is a reasonable conclusion?
a. 90% of students who study receive high grades.
b. 90% of students who receive high grades study a lot.
c. 90% of the variation in GPAs can be explained by variation in number of study
hours.
d.10% of the variation in GPAs cannot be explained by variation in number of
study hours per day.