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SCHOOLS DIVISION OF ORIENTAL MINDORO

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Quarter 3 – Week 6
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SUMMATIVE TEST 3
(Week 5: Finding the Mean and the variance of the Sampling Distribution of the Sample Means)
(Week 6: The Central Limit Theorem)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
Read and analyze the following statement. Write only the letter of the correct answer on the table above.

1. According to Central Limit theorem, which sample size will give a smaller standard error of the mean?
A. 7 B. 12 C. 23 D. 40
2. Which symbol is usually used To denote a sample statistic?
A. x B. μ C. σ D. σ 2
3. If a population is not normally distributed, the distribution of the sample means for a given sample size n will ____________.
A. be positively skewed. B. be negatively skewed.
C. take the same shape as the population. D. approach a normal distribution as n increases.
4. As the sample n increases, the standard deviation of the sampling distribution _____________.
A. increases B. stays the same C. decreases D. not enough information
5. As the sample size n increases, the mean of the sampling distribution ___________________.
A. increases B. stays the same C. decreases D. not enough information
6. As the sample size n increases, the sampling distribution ________________________________.
A. looks more and more like the distribution from which the samples were drawn
B. looks more and more like a normal distribution
C. becomes more and more tightly clustered about its mean
D. both B and C
7. The mean and standard deviation of a population are 75 and 15, respectively. The sample size is 100. What is the standard error
of the mean?
A. 1.5 B. 1.73 C. 0.15 D. 8 4.
8. The mean and standard deviation of a population are 400 and 40, respectively. Sample size is 25. What is the mean of the
sampling distribution?
A. 400 B. 40 C. 25 D. 8 5.
9. What is the standard error of the mean if the sample size is 25 with standard deviation of 16?
A. 6.25 B. 3.2 C. 1.25 D. 0.64
10. The weights of the eggs produced by a certain breed of hen are normally distributed with mean 65 grams and standard deviation of
5 grams. Which of the following will you use?
A. Normal Distribution C. Discrete Probability Distribution
B. Central Limit Theorem D. Binomial Distribution
11. In a study done on the life expectancy of 500 people in a certain geographic region, the mean age at death was 72 years and the
standard deviation was 5.3 years. If a sample of 50 people from this region is selected, and the probability that the mean life
expectancy will be less than 70 years, which of the following will you use?
A. Normal Distribution C. Discrete Probability Distribution
B. Central Limit Theorem D. Binomial Distribution
12. Which of the following DO NOT illustrate the Central Limit Theorem?
A. The mean of the population and sampling distribution are equal.
B. The shape of the sampling distribution will tend to have a normal distribution.
C. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution is the standard error of the mean.
D. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution is greater than the mean.

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13. The mean and standard deviation of a population are 200 and 20, respectively. What is the probability of selecting 25 data values
with a mean less than 190?
A. 69% B. 31% C. 0.6% D. 99%
14. In a metal fabrication process, metal rods are produced that have an average length of 20.5 meters with a standard deviation of
2.3 meters. A quality control specialist collects a random sample of 30 rods and measures their lengths. Suppose the resulting
sample mean is 19.5 meters. Which of the following statements is true?
A. This sample mean is 2.38 standard deviations above what we expect.
B. This sample mean is 2.38 standard deviations below what we expect.
C. This sample mean is only 1 standard deviation above the population mean.
D. This sample mean is more than 3 standard deviations away from the population mean.

For numbers 15-19, choose from the letters A-F to complete the sentence.
A. closed to zero B. normal distribution C. equal D. larger E. mean F. standard
15. Central Limit Theorem states that the sampling distribution of the mean approaches a _____________ as the sample size
increases.
16. A good estimate of the mean is obtained if the standard error of the mean is small or _______________.
17. The mean is a poor estimate if the standard error of the mean is _______________.
18. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means is _______________ to the population mean.
19. The _________________________ measures the degree of accuracy of the sample mean as an estimate of the population mean.

For number 20-21, refer to the problem below.

Suppose the teenagers that attend public high schools get an average of 5.7 hours of sleep each night with a standard
deviation of 1.7 hours. Assume that the average sleep hour is normally distributed, and 35 high school students are randomly selected.

20. Compute the z-score for 6 hours of sleep.

A. 1.04 B. 0.18 C. 0.52 D. 0.82
21. What is the probability that a randomly selected group of 35 high school students gets more than 6 hours of sleep each night?
A. 0.3508 B. 0.1492 C. 0.0714 D. 0.4286

For number 22-25, refer to the problem below.

The amount of fuel used by jumbo jets to take off is normally distributed with a mean of 4, 000 gallons and a standard
deviation of 125 gallons. A sample of 40 jumbo jets are randomly selected.

22. Compute the z-score for 3, 950 gallons.

A. – 0.4 B. 0.4 C. – 2.53 D. 2.53
23. What is the probability that the mean number of gallons of fuel needed to take off for a randomly selected sample of 40 jumbo jets
will be less than 3, 950 gallons?
A. 78.1% B. 34.5% C. 2.5% D. 0.57%
24. What is the probability that the mean number of gallons of fuel needed to take off for a randomly selected sample of 40 jumbo jets
will be more than 3, 950 gallons?
A. 0.57% B. 49.43% C. 65.54% D. 99.43%
25. Researchers found that boys playing high school football recorded an average of 355 hits to the head with a standard deviation of
80 hits during a season. What is the probability on a randomly selected team of 48 players that the average number of head hits
per player is between 340 and 360?
A. 56.96% B. 43.04% C. 40.32% D. 16.64%

For item 16-20. Analyze the given items below.

26. If a population has a mean of 5.6, what is the mean of the sampling distribution of means?
27. If a population has a variance of 8.4, what is the variance of the sampling distribution of its mean? The sampling distribution has a
sample size of 2 and all possible samples are drawn with replacement.
28. If the population standard deviation is 3.5, what is the population variance?
29. If the mean of the sampling distribution of the means is 8.25, what is the mean of the population?
30. If a population has a variance of 6.2, what is the variance of the sampling distribution of its mean? The sampling distribution was
derived with sample size n = 2 and all possible samples are drawn with replacement.

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