St. Paul College Foundation, Inc.

Bulacao Campus, Cebu City

College of Education
Prelim Examination
in
Elementary Statistics and Probability
Name: ________________________ Program: _________________ Score: __________
Class Schedule: __________________ Date: ______________ Instructor: Mr. Rennil Bornia

I. Indicate whether each of the following statements is a descriptive or inferential statistic.

__________1. Last semester, the ages of students at a certain college ranged from 16 to 25 years old.
__________2. Based on the survey conducted by the National Statistics Office, it is estimated that 24%
of unemployed people are women.
__________3. A survey says that 1 out of 10 Filipinos is a member of a fitness center.
__________4. Cigarettes were associated with 31% of the 4,700 civilian fire deaths in 2000.
__________5. A recent study showed that eating garlic can lower blood pressure.

II. Indicate which of the following examples refer to population or sample.

__________6. A group of 25 students selected to test a new technique.
__________7. The total machines produced by a factory in one week.
__________8. The yearly expenditures on food for 10 families.
__________9. The ages of employees of all companies in Metro Manila.
__________10. The number of subscribers of telephone companies.

III. Classify each variable as quantitative or qualitative. Write QL if it is qualitative or QN if its

quantitative.

_________11. the height of giraffe living in India.

_________12. the religious affiliation of the people in the Philippines.
_________13. favorite movie
_________14. the daily intake of proteins
_________15. Nationality
_________16. the days absent from school
_________17. marital status
_________18. the number of houses owned
_________19. the monthly phone bills
_________20. the number of students who fail their first statistics quiz

IV. Classify each as nominal, interval, or ratio level of data.

__________21. social security number
__________22. the total annual incomes for a sample of families.
__________23. the ages of students enrolled in a cooking class
__________24. the rankings of tennis player
__________25. the salaries of fastfood chain attendants

V. Classify each variable as discrete or continuous.

__________26. the number of breads baked each day
__________27. the air temperature in a city yesterday
__________28. the income of single parents living in Quezon City
__________29. the weighs of newborn infants
__________30. The capacity (in liters) of water in a swimming pool

VI. Classify each sample as random, stratified, systematic or cluster.

__________31. Every 12th customer entering a shopping mall is asked to select his or her favorite
store.
__________32. In a university, all teachers from three buildings are interviewed to determine whether
they believe the students have higher grades now than in previous years.
__________33. Supervisors are selected using random number in order to determine annual salaries.
__________34. A teacher writes the name of each student in a card, shuffles the cards and then draws
five names.
__________35. A head nurse selects 10 patients from each floor of a hospital.

VII. Evaluate the following.

6
2
36. ∑ i
i=1

8
37. ∑ i(i+2)
i=2

8
2
38. ∑ ( x + 8 x+16)
x=2

7
2i
39. ∑
i=3 i−4
5
1
40. ∑
x=1 x