LAPERO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

North District
Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte

Fourth Periodical Examination

Grade 7

Date:_____________

Name: _______________________________ Year & Section: ________________ Score: _____

I. Multiple choice. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which of the following statements is/are true?

a. The mode is always exists.
b. The mode is always unique.
c. The median cannot be unique.
d. the mean is easily affected by extreme values.
2. What type of variables are zip codes and telephone numbers?
a. discrete
b. continuous
c. qualitative
d. quantitative
3. Which of the following statements belongs to the area of descriptive statistics?
a. A demographer forecasts the population growth rate next year to be 0.025.
b. A statistics teacher shows a bar graph showing the favourite subjects of his/ her students.
c. A researcher concluded that there is no significant difference in the effectiveness of the two pain
relievers belong sold in the market.
d. A survey result showed that based on a random sample of 1500 college students, 70% of the college
students in the Philippines are in favour of the new curriculum.
4. Which of the following statements belongs to the area of inferential statistics?
a. . A researcher forecasted that the college enrolees next year would increase by 5%.
b. A teacher shows a pie chart of the different college courses taken up by most students in the
Philippines.
c. A grade level coordinator announced that the median score for the final exam in the mathematics is
81.
d. A principal reported that the students’ contribution for their chosen orphanage amounted to Php. 7,
000.
5. Which of the following variables cannot be classified as a quantitative variable?
a. height c. number of students
b. student number d. number of cans of milk
6. Which of the following variables cannot be classified as a ratio variable?
a. area c. temperature
b. height d. number of phone calls
7. Which of the following variables is ordinal?
a. year level c. student number
b. annual income d. telephone number
8. IQ is an example of what type of variable?
a. a discrete variable only
b. a continuous variable only
c. both quantitative and discrete variable
d. both quantitative and continuous variable

9. Which of the following is different from the other three?

a. mean c. median
b. mode d. class size
10. Which of the following measures divides a given data set such that half of the data is greater than it and
the other half is less than it?
a. mean c. range
b. mode d. median
11. Given the data set 6, 0, 3, 7, 9, 0, 3, and 200, which measure of central tendency is appropriate to use in
this case?
a. mean c. range
b. mode d. median
12. What is the mode of the data set in item 11?
a. 0 c. 6
b. 3 d. 7
13. What do you call the numerical descriptive measure of a population?
a. variable c. statistic
b. constant d. parameter
14. What term refers to the numerical descriptive measure of a sample?
a. variable c statistic
b. constant d. parameter
15. What do you call a data set presented in tabular form?
a. histogram c. frequency distribution
b. sampling frame d. table of random numbers
16. Refer to the histogram.

Number of Books Borrowed from the Library in a

Year
60

50

40

30

20

10

0
1 2 3 4 5

number of students = number of book s=

How many students borrowed more than 50 books?

a. 3 c. 13
b. 4 d. 17
For items 17 and 18, refer to the data below.
A study on the scores in the aptitude test of grade 10 students in Quezon City will be conducted.
17. What is the population of the study?
a. high school students
b. students in Quezon City
c. grade 10 students
d. grade 10 students in Quezon City
18. What is the variable of interest?
a. student c. grade 10 student
b. Quezon City d. score in the aptitude test
19. The following bar graph shows the number of students who will participate in the school’s tree planting
activity for all five sections of the grade 7 class.
Number of grade 7 students in the Tree- Planting
Activity
60
Number
Of 50
students
40

30

20

10

0
6 12 15 15 5

Section

Which section has the highest number of participants in the school’s tree- planting activity?

a. Rizal c. Bonifacio
b. Mabini d. Aguinaldo

20. Refer to the pie chart

Projected Enrolment in Higher Education Courses in School Year 2014 to 2015

others

social science Business administration

medical science

Information

engineering Technology

education

Which discipline accounts for most of the projected enrolees?

a. education C. medical science

b. social science d. business administration

21. A science that deals with the methods of collecting, organizing, and summarizing data in such a way that valid
conclusions can be drawn from them.

a. statistics b. sports c. Politics d. census

22. A methods concerned with collecting, organizing, summarizing and presenting a set of data so as to yield
meaningful information.

a. Inferential statistics b. Descriptive Statistics c. Population d. Census

23. A methods concerned with making predictions or inferences about an entire population, based on the
information provided by a given sample.

a. Inferential statistics b. Descriptive statistics c. Survey d. Sample

24. Is consists of the totality of all the elements or entities from which you want to obtain your information.

a. population b. census c. census d. variable

25. Is the process of collecting information from a population.

a. survey b. census c. variable d. nominal

26. Is indicates what kind of a given characteristic n individual, object, or event possesses.

a. qualitative variable b. quantitative variable c. discrete variables d. continuous variable

27. It is answer the question ”how much “or ”how many”.

a. quantitative variable b. nominal variable c. ordinal variable d. ratio variable

28. A selected by taking at random n elements in the population, one from each of the N groups containing k
𝑁
elements, where K= , rounded off to the nearest integer.
𝑛

a. systematic sampling b. stratified sampling c. cluster sampling d. simple random sampling

29. What types of a measuring scales that uses a label or name to identify an attribute of an element and no natural
ordering?

a. ordinal b. simple random c. ratio d. nominal

30. What types of a measuring scales that has a properties of a nominal variable and there is a clear ordering or
ranking of values or categories.

a. ordinal variable b. nominal c. simple random d. ratio

II. Determine whether each variable is qualitative or quantitative. If it is quantitative, determine whether it is discrete
or continuous.

1. Number of books read in a month.

2. Brand of cell phone used

3. Amount of time spent surfing the Internet per day

4. Favourite movie

5. Type of sandwiches sold in cafeteria

6. Name of cable television provider

7. Number of absences incurred in a month

8. Average daily temperature in Tagaytay

9. Priority list of desired courses in college

10. Length (in minutes) of telephone calls in a month.

III. Classify each variable according to its scale of measurement. Write nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio. Write your
answer in the space provided.

___________1. Height of all players in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

___________2. Hair color of senior high school students.

___________3. Socio- economic status (low, middle, high).

___________4. Brand of shoes sold in a certain department store.

___________5. Number of cups of soft drinks sold in a certain fast-food restaurant.

___________6. College student classification (e. g., freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior).

___________7. The pH value of a certain acid.

___________8. Number of teachers joining the science field trip.

___________9. Area of classrooms (in square meters).

___________10. Civil status of the employees in a school library.