REVIEWER IN STAT

Definition of terms

What is the meaning of discrete and continuous variable?

What is Random Variable, Probability,

What is the meaning of mean, variance and standard deviation
Formula for mean, variance and standard deviation.
Mean: Σ X

A survey conducted by a company that sells shoes showed the number of shoes a person has. The data
is a presented below:

X 0 1 2 3

P(X) 0.02 0.34 0.15 0.49

A What
is the mean of the number of shoes that a person has? 2.11
B What is the variance of the given probability distribution? 0.8976
C What is the standard deviation of the given probability distribution?

0.95

1. Which explains why the table below is not a probability distribution?

x 0 1 2 3 4
The P(x ) 0.20 0.10 0.12 0.11 0.10
sum of probabilities must has to be equal to 1.

2. 1 is the total area of the region that lies under the curve and above the horizontal axis? false

5. The graph of a normal distribution is symmetric about a vertical line through the center and it is a bell shape.
The mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1 - true

6. What is the area to the right of z = 1.45? 0.4265

7. What is the area between z = 0 and z = 1.54? 0.0668

8. What is the area between z = -1.45 and z = 1.85? 0.8943

9. Let X be a normally distributed random variable wit h a mean 150 and standard deviation of 4. What is the
corresponding z-score if x = 150? 0

10. Let X be a normally distributed random variable with a mean 220 and standard deviation of 8. What is the
probability that x is less than 110?
11. What is the corresponding area of P(0.75< z<1.40)? 0.1458

12. What is the sum of p(x) and t(x) if p(x) = x 2 + 3x – 4 and m(x) = −3 x 2 + 2? = P(0< z< 1.54)

13. What is the corresponding area of P(−2.45< z<1.15) ? 0.8658 OR 0.8678

14. If given μ=¿50, σ =3.5. What is the raw score when z = 1.15? 54.025

15. What is the area under the normal curve is between z = -2.24 and z = -1.15? 0.1146

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16. What percent of the area under the normal curve is between z = 0.45 and z = 3.5? 0.3264

17. In a given normal distribution, the population mean is 100 and the population standard deviation is 4.5.
What is the corresponding standard score of 78? -4.89

18. On a test in General science, the mean is 45 and the standard deviation is 2. Assuming normality, what is the
standard score of a student who receives a score of 50? 2.5

19. Given a normal distribution with population μ=52 and population variance σ 2=26, what is the value of x
that leaves 10.5% of the area to the left of the z-score of x. 45.63 OR 45.58

20. Scores on a scholarship aptitude exam are normally distributed with a mean of 82 and a standard deviation
of 12. What is the probability that a randomly selected applicant will score above 90? 0.66667

21. In an aptitude test, the mean score is 72 and the standard deviation is 10. Assuming the scores are normally

distributed, what percent of the score is less than 80. 0.8 OR 0.21186 or 0.28814 or 0.7881
22. On a final examination in Science, the mean was 85 and the standard deviation was 7. Assuming the scores
are normally distributed, what is the standard score of a student who received a score of 78? -1

23. A certain flashlight battery lasts on the average of 3 years with a standard deviation of 0.25 year. Assuming
that the battery lives are normally distributed, what is the probability that a given battery will last less than 1.5
years? 0

24. What is the population mean of (6, 8, 12)? 8.6667

Consider the population consisting of the values (3, 6, 9) and all the possible samples of size 2 which can
be drawn without replacement from the population.
a. What is the population mean? 6

b. What is the population variance? 6

c. What is the population standard deviation? 2.45

d. What is the mean of sampling distribution of mean? 5.9997

e. What is the variance of sampling distribution of mean? 1.4998

f. What is the standard deviation of sampling distribution of mean? 1.2246

Identify the type of sampling technique used in each of the following situations: simple random sampling,
systematics sampling, stratified sampling, or cluster sampling.

Situation: Sir Onie, a mathematics teacher plans to choose four students from the math club to be in
publicity photo. How could Sir Onie choose the four students?
A. Sir Onie could put the names of all the students in a box, mix the names without looking? Simple
random sampling
B. Sir Onie could mix the names of the boys and choose two from the group. Sir Onie does the same for
the girls
C. Sir Onie could mix the names of the boys and choose two from the group. Sir Onie does the same for
the girls stratified
D. Sir Onie could choose every 3rd student, beginning in the front row and count from the right to left.
systematic

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