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STATISTICS
PRACTICE TEST

Instruction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

_______ 1. A number is chosen at random from 1 to 50. Find the probability of selecting either
a multiple of 4 or a multiple of 5.
12 10 11 1
a. 25 b. . 12 c. . 25 d. . 12

_______ 2. A number is chosen at random from 1 to 50. Find the probability of selecting factors
of 36.

1 9 1 9
a. 12 b. 12 c. 50 d. 50

_______ 3. Find the probability of a dice rolling a sum of 6.

4 6 5 5
a. 36 b. 12 c. 12 d. 36

_______ 4. Find the probability of rolling prime numbers on both dice.

1 1 1 1
a. 2 b. 4 c. 3 d. 5

_______ 5.A pair of dice are tossed. Find the probability that the sum on the two dice is 8.

1 5 1 1
A. B. 36 C. 36 D. 2
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_______ 6. A spinner numbered 1 to 8 is spun. What is the probability of spinning an odd

number?

1 1
A. B. 8 C. 1 D. 0
2

_______ 7. Cardo is going to choose a three-combo meal at his favorite karenderya. He must
choose one item from each of the following three categories.

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First combo: Sinigang soup (SS); Macaroni Salad (MS)

Second combo: Bulalo Soup (BS); Fried Chicken (FC); Pork Barbeque (PB)
Third combo: Mango Cake (MC); Banana Pie (BP); Seaweed Delight (SD)
How many different three-course meals are possible?
A. 18 B. 12 C. 16 D. 8

_______ 8. What is the most stable and useful measure of central tendency?

A. mean B. median C. mode D. range

_______ 9. Which measure of central tendency is generally used in determining the size of the
most in demand shoes?

A. mean B. median C. mode D. range

_______ 10. Ten students in a class averaged 80% on a test. Fifteen others averaged 90%. What
is the average of the 25 students?

A. 84 B. 85 C. 86 D. 87

_______ 11. The scores of a student in three tests are 19, 17 and 15. What must be his 4 th score
to gain an average of 17?

A. 18 B. 17 C. 16 D. 15

_______ 12. If the range of a set of scores is 24 and the lowest score is 7, what is the highest
score?

A. 31 B. 24 C. 14 D. 17

_______ 13. A die was tossed 25 times with the results shown below. What is the mean for the
tosses?

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5 6 1 3 5 6 1 6 6 6 3
4 5 6 1 2 4 2 1 4 2 5
4 4 1
A. 4.2 B. 3.9 C. 3.7 D. 3.5

_______ 14. The scores of Tim’s first four math tests are 82, 90, 78 and 100. If Tim wants to
have a test average of 90, what must the average of Tim’s next two tests be?

A. 92 B. 95 C. 97 D. 100

_______ 15. Which of the two events are mutually exclusive?

A. Drawing a card from a deck and getting a king or a club.

B. Rolling a die and getting an even number or a 6

C. Tossing two coins and getting two heads or two tails

D. Rolling two dice and getting doubles or getting a sum of 8

_______ 16. A card I selected from a deck of 52 cards. Find the probability that it is a red
king or a black queen.

2 1 5 8
A. 13 B. 13 C. 13 D. 13

_______ 17. In how many ways can 5 students sit around a table?

A. 10 B. 24 C. 120 D. 5

_______ 18. The mean of a sample is

A. always equal to the mean of the population
B. always smaller than the mean of the population
C. computed by summing the data values and dividing the sum by (n - 1)
D. computed by summing all the data values and dividing the sum by the number
of items.

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_______ 19. Middle observation in an arranged set of data is called

A. mean
B. mode
C. median
D. range

_______ 20. Mr. Winters times the speed of his sprinters every Friday. This week he had them
run from one school building to the next. There times were in seconds were: 52.6, 61.3, 74.8,
78.2, 86.2, 48.7, 98.2, 78.2, 49.8, 73.5. What was the mean time?

a. 70.15 b. 78.2 c. 49.5 d. 52.6

_______ 21. Probability values range from ___ to _____.

a. 0.00 to -1.00 b. 0.00 to 0.01 c. 0.00 to 1.00 d. 0.00 to 0.10

______ 22. The formula for calculating percentile ranks is

a. P=R/100 (N+1) b. R=P/100 (N+1) c. R=N/100 (P+1) d. R/100

______23. If I tell you that you scored at the 55th percentile on your final exam, you would
know:

a. 55% of the class scored as good or worse than I did

b. I earned a 55% on the exam

c. 45% of the class scored worse than I did

d. I earned an F

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______ 24. Flavors of frozen yogurt can be classified in what level of measurement?

a. Nominal b. Ordinal c. Interval d. Ratio

_______25. The amount of money in savings accounts of Dr. Tan is classified under what level
of measurement?

a. Nominal b. Ordinal c. Interval d. Ratio

_______26. Students classified by their reading ability: Above average, Below average, Normal.

a. Nominal b. Ordinal c. Interval d. Ratio

_______27. Letter grades on an English essay should belong to what level of measurement?

a. Nominal b. Ordinal c. Interval d. Ratio

_______ 28. A decile can be calculated using what types of input data?

a. Raw data values only

b. Raw data values that are arranged sequentially

c. Both raw data values and data represented by a frequency distribution

d. Data represented by a cumulative frequency distribution

______ 29. If there are 9! different seating arrangements around a round table, how many people
are there?

a. 9 b. 18 c. 8 d. 10

______ 30. Find the number of permutations of the elements in the set {S, M, I, L, E}.

a. 15 b. 110 c. 5 d. 120

______ 31. In how many ways can 5 students sit around a table?

a. 10 b. 24 c. 120 d. 5

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_____ 32. How many permutations of the letters of the word NEWYORK are possible?

a. 7 b. 42 c. 28 d. 5,040

______ 33. A box contains 5 color pencils. How many different sets of 3 pencils can be chosen
from it?

a. 10 b. 4 c. 6 d. 20

______ 34. In how many ways can 2 different books be arranged on a shelf?

a. 2! b. 3! c. 5! d. 4!

For number 35

The following data show the number of hours worked by 200 statistics students.

Number of Hours Frequency

0-9 40
10 - 19 50
20 - 29 70
30 - 39 40

_____35. Refer to above data. The class width for this distribution

a. is 9
b. is 10
c. is 11
d. varies from class to class

_____ 36. Middle observation in an arranged set of data is called

a. Mean
b. Mode
c. median
d. range

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_____ 37. A bar chart constructed in which area of each bar is proportional to number of items in
each group is known as

a. pi chart
b. histogram
c. frequency distribution table
d. polygon

_____38. 1st quartile is also known as

a. lower quartile
b. upper quartile
c. median
d. geometric mean

_____ 39. Square of standard deviation is called

a. harmonic mean
b. variance
c. mode
d. 2nd quartile

_____ 40. In set 2, 4, 5, 4, 6, 5, 3, 4, 2, mode is

a. 2
b. 5
c. 4
d. 3

_____ 41. Table which shows frequency of each score is called a

a. polygon
b. pi chart
c. histogram

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d. frequency distribution table

_____ 42. Monthly income of 5 persons are 3000, 5000, 4000, 2000 and 6000. Their arithmetic
mean should be

a. 4000
b. 6000
c. 5000
d. 3500

_____ 43. Geometric mean of 2,4 and 8 is

a. 3
b. 5
c. 2
d. 4

_____44. By adding all numbers in set together and then total is divided by number of scores in
that set, we obtained

a. geometric mean
b. arithmetic mean
c. standard deviation
d. variance

_____ 45. Most frequent observation in a data set is called

a. mode
b. median
c. range
d. mean

______ 46. Range in data 18, 25, 12, 13, 8, 9, 20 is equal to

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a. 11
b. 33
c. 13
d. 17

_____ 47. Average of all observations in a set of data is known as

a. median
b. range
c. mean
d. mode

_____ 48. Median in set 6, 4, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4 would be

a. 3
b. 6
c. 5
d. 4

_____ 49. Cumulative frequency polygon is also called

a. ogive
b. histogram
c. absicca
d. sigma

______50. Reciprocal of arithmetic mean of reciprocal of values x1, x2, x3, ....., xn is known as

a. variance
b. geometric mean
c. harmonic mean
d. arithmetic mean

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