FINAL EXAMINATION

IN
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Name: _________________________________________ Date: ______________________________

Grade & Section: _________________________________ Score: _____________________________

I. Multiple Choice. Encircle the letter of your answer.

1. What variable is usually written as X and whose possible values are numerical outcomes of a random phenomenon?
a. Continuous b. Qualitative c. Random d. Independent
2. Which of the following is NOT a true statement?
a. The value of a 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 probabilities in a probability distribution is always equal to one.
3. Which among the following describes a discrete random variable?
a. It takes values on a continuous scale
b. It represents measured data, such as heights, weights and temperatures
c. Its set of possible outcomes is countable
d. It contains infinite number of possibilities
4. Which of the following 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
5. Which is classified as a continuous random variable?
a. The time needed to finish a test
b. The number of patient arrivals per hour at a medical clinic
c. The number of female athletes
d. The number of siblings in a family
6. Which among the following is a TRUE statement?
a. The normal distribution has a very important role in descriptive statistics
b. The normal curve is symmetric about its tails
c. The normal curve is bell-shaped
d. The area under a normal curve is 2
7. It represents the distance between a given measurement X and the mean, expressed in standard deviation.
a. z – table b. median c. standard deviation d. z-score
8. What is the standard deviation value of a standard normal curve?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
9. What is the area that corresponds to z = 2.05?
a. 0.4793 b. 0.4798 c. 0.4744 d. 0.4803
10. If two coins are tossed, which is not a possible value of the random variable for the number of heads?
a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d. 3

II. Determine the number of all possible samples of size n that can be taken from a population of size N.
Show your solution and encircle the letter of your answer.
1. N=5, n=2 a. 15 b. 10 c. 20 d. 8

2. N=20, n = 4 a. 4,845 b. 4,485 c. 285 d. 258

3. N=30, n=3 a. 4000 b. 145 c. 4060 d. 24,360

4. N=10, n=4 a. 210 b. 201 c. 200 d. 5040

 5. N=15, n=2 a. 210 b. 1,365 c. 105 d.150

III. Solve for the z-score of the following and give its corresponding area under the normal curve.

1. 𝜇 = 30, 𝜎 = 6, 𝑋 = 21
2. 𝜇 = 30, 𝜎 = 6, 𝑋 = 35
3. 𝑋̅ = 60, 𝑠 = 10, 𝑋 = 74
4. 𝑋̅ = 75, 𝑠 = 15, 𝑋 = 82
5. 𝜇 = 62, 𝜎 = 8, 𝑋 = 42
Prepared by: Vanessa T. Roa