SEMILLANO, MARVIN D.

– MED MATHEMATICS, Kabankalan Center

QUIZ 1

A. In each statement that follows, tell whether Descriptive or Inferential statistics was used.

1. The NSO reported that the average annual family income in 2012 was P235,000.
- DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
2. One in seven persons will develop thyroid problems during their lives.
- INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
3. It is estimated that each hour of TV slices 22 minutes off the life expectancy of
adults over 25.
- INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
4. A 2-foot rise in global sea level is expected by 2100.
- INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
5. 32% of the Project Free students last term were males.
- DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

B. Indicate whether each of the following examples refers to a population (P) or to a sample
(S).

1. Number of registered voters in all the cities and municipalities in Neg. Occ.
-P
2. Entrance exam score of each Freshman student enrolled at USLS for AY 2014-2015.
-P
3. Weight (in kg) of selected babies born in Bago City in the month of March 2015.
-S
4. Sales of chosen stalls in the public market.
-S
5. Size of all the households in Doña Juliana Subdivision, Bacolod City.
-P

C. For each variable, indicate its type (Qualitative – Q, Quantitative Discrete – D,

Quantitative Continuous – C) the level of measurement (nominal – N, ordinal – O,
interval – I, ratio – R).

1. GSIS number of PNP personnel – D / N

2. Number of typhoons in a year – D / R
3. Hotel ratings (example: 5 star) – Q / O
4. Number of passengers in a bus. – D / R
5. Height of trees in Kanlaon National Park – C / R
6. Temperature (ºF) of pizza ovens – C / I
7. Statistics exam score – D / I
8. Jersey numbers of basketball players – D / N
9. T-shirt size (small, medium, large) – Q / O
10. Age of kindergarten teachers – C

Identify the sampling technique for the situation being described.

1. A researcher asked 2 cross-dressers to participate in his study and requested them

to introduce him to other cross-dressers who are willing to be interviewed.
(SNOWBALL?)
- PURPOSIVE SAMPLING

2. A TV station solicited opinions from its viewers by asking them to text a mobile phone
number.
- CONVENIENCE SAMPLING

3. A quality control inspector randomly chose 3 boxes of Christmas light bulbs and
tested each of them for defects.
- SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING

4. Participants in a parlor game are chosen by picking out names from a bowl that
contains all the names of the party guests.
- SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING

5. A big corporation is composed of 5 departments. Lottery was used to choose a

sample of employees from each department.
- STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING

6. Twenty barangays in Bacolod City are randomly selected from a total population of 61
barangays. Then all the unemployed persons in each of these twenty barangays are
interviewed for a study on unemployment.
- CLUSTER RANDOM SAMPLING

7. A grade 3 teacher lists down each of the names of her 52 students on small pieces of
paper. Then she rolls these pieces of paper, puts them in a box, and selects 15 names
to be included in a dance number.
- SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING

8. A quality control inspector for a textbook company randomly selects a chapter of a

book and reads all the pages of the chapter to determine the number of
typographical errors.
- SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING

9. A researcher selects every 5th house on the street to obtain a sample of households.
- SYSTEMATIC RANDOM SAMPLING

10. A population of small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) was categorized according to

capitalization (less than P1M, P1M to P3M, more than P3M). Then a sample of SMEs
was obtained from each group using lottery.
- STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING
B. Determine the most appropriate data collection technique for the following:

1. The objective is to study the customs and traditions of a group of people.

- INTERVIEW
2. You have 10,000 respondents who are scattered all over Region VI.
- QUESTIONNAIRE
3. The goal of the study is to determine which of 2 methods of teaching English is more
effective.
- EXPERIMENTATION
4. You need to get the medical history of 18 illiterate patients.
- INTERVIEW
5. You want to study the behavior of five mentally ill persons.
- OBSERVATION