COTMON NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Cotmon, Camalig, Albay

PRETEST IN STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Directions: Read the following items carefully. Write the letter

that corresponds to your answer on your answer sheet.
B. D.
1. If three coins are tossed, which is NOT a possible
value of the random variable for the number of tails? 11. What is another name for normal distribution?
A. 1 C. 3 A. Gaussian distribution C. Bernoulli’s distribution
B. 2 D. 4 B. Poisson distribution D. Probability distribution

2. Which of the following is a discrete random variable? 12. What is the total area in the distribution under the
A. length of electrical wires normal curve?
B. number of pencils in a box A. 0 C. 2
C. amount of sugar used in a cup of coffee B. 1 D. 3
D. voltage of car batteries
13. Which of the following is a parameter of normal
3. Which formula gives the probability distribution distribution?
shown by the table? A. mean C. mean and standard deviation
X 3 4 5 B. standard deviation D. none of the above
P(X) 1/3 1/4 1/5
14. The graph of a normal distribution is symmetrical
A. P(X) = X C. P(X) = X/3 about the ____________.
B. P(X) = 1/X D. P(X) = X/5 A. mean C. mean and standard deviation
B. standard deviation D. none of the above
4. How many ways can a “double” come out when you
roll two dice? 15. What percent of the area under a normal curve is
A. 2 C. 6 within 2 standard deviations?
B. 4 D. 8 A. 68.3% C. 99.7%
B. 95.4% D. 100%
5. It is the central or average of its corresponding
probability mass function. 16. How many standard deviations are there in each
A. mean C. variance inflection point?
B. standard deviation D. probability A. 0 C. 2
B. 1 D. 3
6. Determine the mean or expected value of the random
variable below. 17. Which of the following denotes the standard score in
Probability that it will the standard normal distribution?
Tile
be picked A. A C. Y
1 2/15 B. X D. Z
2 4/15
3 8/15 18. A random variable X has a mean of 12 and a standard
4 1/15 deviation of 3.2. What is the corresponding z-score for
x=8?
A. 2.53 C. 2.55 A. -1.25 C. -1.75
B. 2.54 D. 2.56 B. -1.50 D. -2.25

7. What is the mean outcome if a die is rolled once? 19. It refers to the entire group that is under study or
A. 1.5 C. 3.5 investigation.
B. 2.5 D. 4.5 A. population C. random sampling
B. sample D. subset
8. Find the mean of the probability distribution involving
the random variable X that gives the number of heads 20. It is a subset taken from a population, either by random
that appear after tossing four coins once. or nonrandom sampling techniques.
A. 4 C. 2 A. population C. random sampling
B. 3 D. 1 B. sample D. lottery sampling

9. The probabilities that a printer produces 0, 1, 2 and 3 21. What sampling technique is used when members of
misprints are 42%, 28%, 18%, and 12% respectively. the population are listed and samples are selected in
What is the mean value of the random variable? intervals called sample intervals?
A. 1 C. 3 A. systematic sampling C. stratified random sampling
B. 2 D. 4 B. lottery sampling D. quota sampling

10. Which of the following illustrations represents normal 22. It is sometimes called area sampling. It applies on a
distribution? geographical basis.
A. C. A. systematic sampling C. stratified random sampling
B. lottery sampling D. cluster sampling
23. It is a sampling technique where each sample point has 34. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of
an equal chance of being selected. the sample means according to the Central Limit
A. systematic sampling C. random sampling Theorem is __________.
B. lottery sampling D. quota sampling A. exactly equal to the standard deviation.
B. close to the population standard deviation if the
24. It is a measure that describes a sample. sample size is large.
A. parameter C. z-score C. equal to the population standard deviation divided
B. statistic D. population by the square root of the sample size.
D. is not determined
25. What do you call the measure that describes a
population? 35. Samples of size 25 are selected from a population with
A. parameter C. z-score a mean of 40 and a standard deviation of 7.5. What is
B. statistic D. population the mean of the sampling distribution of sample
means?
26. Which of the following is an example of a parameter? A. 7.5 C. 25
A. s2 C. s B. 8 D. 40
B. x̄ D. μ
36. Samples of size 25 are selected from a population with
27. Which of the following is an example of a statistic? a mean of 40 and a standard deviation of 7.5. What is
A. σ2 C. σ the standard error of the sampling distribution of
B. x̄ D. μ sample means?
A. 0.3 C. 7.5
28. Which of the following represents a parameter? B. 1.5 D. 8
A. The average IQ obtained from the entire
population of grade 11 students 37. What is the other term for t-distribution?
B. The average weekly allowance of a sample of 60 A. z-distribution
male students B. probability distribution
C. The average age from a random sample of 40 C. percentile distribution
students D. student’s t-distribution
D. The average time spent by 50 randomly selected
teachers in preparing learning activity sheets 38. This refers to the maximum number of logically
independent values which varies in the data sample.
29. Which of the following represents a statistic? A. level of significance
A. The mean height of selected grade 11 male B. percentiles
students C. degree of freedom
B. The average time spent by all his students playing D. probability
online games
C. The average weekly allowance of all senior high 39. This refers to the measure of position whose data is
school students divided into 100 parts.
D. The average salary of all employees A. percentiles C. deciles
B. quartiles D. median
30. Which of the following is the correct formula in
computing for the mean of the sampling distribution 40. What will be the degree of freedom of the data with a
of the sample means? sample size of 20?
A. Σ [x̄2 ● P(x̄)] A. 17 C. 19
B. x̄2 ● P(x̄) B. 18 D. 20
C. Σ [x̄ ● P(x̄)]
D. Σ P(x̄) --- END OF PRETEST ---

31. Which sample size gives a smaller standard error of

the mean according to the Central Limit theorem?
A. 10 C. 25
B. 15 D. 35

32. The Central Limit Theorem says that the sampling

distribution of the sample mean is approximately
normal if _______________.
A. The sample size is large.
B. All possible samples are selected.
C. The standard error of the sampling mean is small.
D. none of the above

33. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample

means according to the Central Limit Theorem is
___________.
A. exactly equal to the population mean
B. close to the population mean if the sample size is
large
C. equal to the population mean divided by the
square of the sample size
D. not determined