Republic of the Philippines 9.

Find the mean of the probability distribution

Department of Education involving the random variable X that gives the
Caraga Region XIII number of heads that appear after tossing four
DIVISION OF BUTUAN CITY coins once.
West Butuan District III
PAREJA INTEGRATED SCHOOL
A. 4 B. 3 C. 2 D. 1
3rd St. Pareja Subd. Brgy. Bayanihan, Butuan City 10. The probabilities that a printer produces 0,1,2,
School I.D 501552 and 3 misprints are 42%, 28%, 18%, and 12%
respectively. What is the mean value of the
3rd QUARTER EXAM IN STAT random variable?
(Statistics and Probability – Grade 11) A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
11.Which of the following illustrations represents
Name: __________________ Score: ______ normal distribution?
Year & Section: ____________
Teacher: ________________________
A. B.
I. Read each item and encircle the letter of your answer.

1. It is a numerical quantity that is assigned to the C. D.

outcome of an experiment. 12. What is the total area in the distribution under
A. random variable B. variable the normal curve?
C. probability D. probability distribution A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3
2. If three coins are tossed, which is NOT a possible 13. What percent of the area under a normal curve
value of the random variable for the number of tails? is within 2 standard deviations?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 A. 68.3% B. 95.4%
3. Which of the following is a discrete random C. 99.7% D. 100%
variable? A. Length of electrical wires 14. How many standard deviations are there in
B. Number of pencils in a box each inflection point?
C. Amount of sugar used in a cup of coffee A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3
D. Voltage of car batteries 15. A random variable X has a mean of 12 and a
4. This type of random variable can assume an infinite standard deviation of 3.2. What is the
number of values in one or more intervals. It is also corresponding z-score for x = 8?
called as the measuring values. A. -1.25 B. -1.50
A. Discrete B. Random C. -1.75 D. -2.25
C. Continuous D. Simple 16. What is the z-score if the area under the
5. It is the central or average of its corresponding normal curve is 0.0475?
probability mass function. A. -1.66 B. -1.67
A. mean B. variance C. 1.66 D. 1.67
C. standard deviation D. probability 17. What is the area under the normal curve
6. These are two values that describe how scattered or between the z-scores -1.99 and 1.56?
spread out the scores are from the mean value of the A. 0.9173 B. 0.9317
random variable. C. 0.9369 D. 0.9639
A. variance and standard deviation 18. In an achievement test, the mean score of
B. mean and probability distribution normally distributed values is 70 and the standard
C. probability and statistics deviation is 12. What is the percentage of students
D. mean and variance who got a score of 85 and above?
7. The random variable X, representing the A. 0.1056 B. 0.1075
number of nuts in a chocolate bar has the C. 0.8925 D. 0.8944
following probability distribution. What is the 19. The weights (in kg) of 11-GAS B follow a
mean? normal distribution and has a mean of 50 and a
standard deviation of 5. How many students have
weights greater than 57?
A. 1.4 B. 0.0808
A. 1.5 B. 1.3 C. 0.9192 D. 0.9332
C. 1.7 D. 1.9 20. Using the standard normal curve, what is the
8. What is the mean outcome if a pair of die is approximate area of P(1.63 < Z < 2.79)?
rolled once? A. 0.0049 B. 0.0490
A. 1.5 B. 2.5 C. 3.5 D. 4.5
C. 0.9484 D. 0.9974
21. What sampling technique in which members
of the population are listed and samples are
selected in intervals called sample intervals.
A. systematic sampling
B. lottery sampling
C. stratified random sampling
D. quota sampling
22. It is a subset taken from a population, either
by random or nonrandom sampling techniques.
A. population B. sample
C. random sampling D. lottery sampling
23. It refers to the entire group that is under study
or investigation.
A. population B. sample
C. random sampling D. subset
24. Which of the following is a parameter?
A. The average income of 40 out of 100
households in a certain Barangay is P 12, 213.00 a
month.
B. Percentage of black cars in the Butuan City.
C. A recent survey of a sample of 50 high school
students reported the average weight of 53.5 kg.
D. None of the above
25. The following are examples of statistic except:
A. A. The average income of 40 out of 100
households in a certain Barangay is P 12, 213.00 a
month.
B. Percentage of black cars in the Butuan City.
C. A recent survey of a sample of 50 high school
students reported the average weight of 53.5 kg.
D. All of the above
26. It is a measure of the characteristics of the
entire population.
A. Parameter B. Statistic
C. Random Sampling D. Samples
27. 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 sample are selected.
C. the standard error of the sampling mean is
small.
D. none of the above.
28. 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. cannot be determined.
29. Which sample size gives a smaller standard
error of the mean according to Central Limit
theorem?
A. 10 B. 15 C. 25 D. 35
30. Samples of size 25 are selected from a
population with a mean of 40 and a standard
deviation of 7.5. What is the mean of the sampling
distribution of sample means?
A. 7.5 B. 8 C. 25 D. 40
31. Samples of size 25 are selected from a
population with a mean of 40 and a standard
deviation of 7.5. What is the standard error of the
sampling distribution of sample means?
A. 0.3 B. 1.5 C. 7.5 D. 8
32. What happens to the shape of a sampling
distribution of sample means as n increases?
A. It becomes narrower and more normal
B. It becomes wider and more normal
C. It becomes narrower and bimodal
D. It becomes wider and skewed right
33. In a group of 20 randomly selected unicorns,
the mean is 1,000 and the standard deviation is 25,
what is the standard deviation of the sampling
distribution?
A. 25 B. 5.59 C. 4 D. 1.25
34. A group of 625 students has a mean age of
15.8 years with a standard deviation of 0.6 years.
The ages are normally distributed. What is the
probability that a randomly selected students are
older than 16.5 years old?
A. 12.1% B. 86.4%
C. 87.9% D. 13.6%
35. If the random samples are large, what is the
shape of the sampling distribution of the mean?
A. skewed to the left B. skewed to the right
C. normal D. rectangular
II. Solve the following. Show you solutions.
1. Suppose two coins are tossed and we are interested
to determine the number of tails that will come out. Let
us use T to represent the number of tails that will come
out. Determine the values of the random variable T,
illustrate and compute the probabilities corresponding
to a given random variable. (6 points)
2. As a Physical Education teacher of Pareja Integrated
Secondary School Senior High School, Sir Mark wants
to compute for the Body Mass Index of few students as
part of his research. As a start, the table below shows
the heights of five students in meters. Supposed
samples of size 2 are taken from this population of five
students. Find the mean and the variance of the
sampling distribution of the sample means. (9 points)