SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

THIRD QUARTER EXAMINATION

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
SY: 2023- 2024

NAME: _________________________________GRADE & SECTION: ____________ SCORE: ________

Proverbs 3:6 “In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths.”

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Choose the letter of the correct answer from the choices given for each item. Write
the Letter on the space provided.

_______1. Which of the following illustrates discrete random variable?

a. the average amount of water consumed by a family.
b. the amount of paint used in painting a house.
c. the number of patients in a private hospital.
d. the average weight of male athletes.
_______2. The height of “covid 19” patients in a certain hospital is best described as______?
a. Continuous b. Discrete c. Random d. Variables
_______3. If a coin is tossed, what are the possible values of the random variable for the number of
tails? a. 0,1 b. 0, 2 c. 1,2 d. 0,1,2
________4. Which of the following is NOT a true statement?
a. Random variables can only have one value.
b. The value of a random variable could be zero.
c. The probability of the value of a random variable could be zero.
d. The sum of all the probabilities in a probability distribution is always equal to one.
______5. Which of the following illustrates the probability distribution?

______6. Which formula gives the probability distribution shown in the table?

1 x 6 1
a. P(x) = b. P(x) = c. P(x) = d. P(x) =
x 6 x 6
x
________7. If P(X) = , what are the possible values of x for it to be a probability distribution?
4
a. 0,2,3 b. 1,1,2 c. 1,2,3 d. 2,3,4
For number 8-9 refer to the probability distribution shown below

_______8. What is the value of k to make it a probability distribution?

a. 0.125 b. 0.25 c. 0.375 d. 0.50
_______9. What is the probability that random variable x is greater than 1?
a. 0.125 b. 0.25 c. 0.50 d. 0.625
For item 10 -11 refer to the probability shown below.

_______10. What is the mean of the probability distribution?

a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d. 3
________11. What is the variance of the probability distribution?
a. 0.05 b. 0.5 c. 5 d. 50
_____________ 12. Which of the following is TRUE about the mean of a discrete random variable?
a. The most frequent value in the distribution
b. The value that appears in the middle of the distribution
c. The range of value covered by the distribution.
d. The weighted average of all possible values, with weights given by their probabilities.
_______ 13. The probabilities that a customer will buy 1,2,3,4, or 5 items in a grocery store are
3 1 1 2 ,∧3
, , , respectively. What is the average number of items that a customer will buy?
10 10 10 10 10
a. 1.5 b. 2.3 c. 3.1 d. 4.2
_________14. Which of the following does NOT describe a normal distribution?
a. The distribution curve is bell-shaped.
b. The curve is perpendicular to its center.
c. The total area of the probability distribution is 100%.
d. The mean, median, and standard deviation coincide at the center.
________ 15. Given: z-value is equal to 1.05, what is its corresponding area under the standard
deviation? a. 0.2456 b. 0.3445 c. 0.3531 d. 0.3944

_______ 16. Under the standard normal distribution, what is the z-value that corresponds to an area
of 0.4750?
a. 2.58 b. 2.33 c. 1.96 d. none of the above
________17. Given the following data, which z-score is within a sample?
a. x = 50, σ = 5, x = 44 c. x = 64, σ =15 , μ=50
b. x = 38, σ =6, x = 28 d. x = 50, s=5 , μ=44
x−μ
_______18. If μ=60 , σ=5 and x =75, then what is its z-score? Hint: z =
σ
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
For number 19 -20 refer to the problem below,
The results of a nationwide aptitude test in science are normally distributed μ = 80, x = 84
and σ = 15.
X−μ
_______19. What is the value of the z–score? Hint: z =
σ
a. 0.10 b. 0.23 c. 0.27 d. 0.32
_______ 20. What is the percentage of the area below the z-value?
a. 9.28% b. 10.64% c. 60.64% d. 62.55%
_______ 21. A grocery store wants to know the average spending per customer. They have 10,000
customers per week. What sampling technique should the grocery store use to select a
representative sample of customers for the survey?
a. Convenience Sampling c. Random Sampling
b. Purposive Sampling d. Snowball Sampling

_______ 22. Which of the following statements is an example of a parameter?

a. 20% of ABM students in GSCNSSAT are honor students.
b. 30% of the selected Filipinos are members of the 4P’s.
c. 60% of selected dog owners immunize their dogs.
d. 75% of selected Grade 11 students are Cebuano.
_______ 23. Consider a population consisting of 1,2,3,4 and 5. How many possible samples of size
N!
n = 2 can be drawn? Hint: N C n =
( N−n ) ! n !
a. 5 b. 10 c. 15 d. 20
_______ 24. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample mean μ x= 4, what is the mean of
the population μ ?
a. 4 b. 5 c. 6 d. 7
For number 25-26. Consider a population consisting of 1,2,3,4 and 5. If sample of size 2 are drawn
from this population,
∑x
_______ 25. What does the value of the population mean? Hint: µ =
N
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5
2
2∑x ∑x
_______ 26. What is its population variance? Hint: σ = –( )2
N N
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5
_______ 27. Which of the following formulas for the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of
the sample mean should be used for the infinite population?

√ √ √ √
σ σ N−n N −n σ N −n
a. σ x = b σ x= c. σ x = d.σ x = •
√n n N−1 N −1 n N −1
_______ 28. What happens to the sampling distribution when the sample size increases?
a. It looks more and more like the distribution from which the samples were drawn.
b. Becomes more and more tightly clustered about its mean.
c. Looks more and more like a normal distribution.
d. Both b and c.
_______29. Given: μ=60 , σ = 5 and n = 16, what is the standard deviation of the sampling
σ
distribution? Hint: σ x =
√n
a. 1.25 b. 1.50 c. 1.75 d. 2.0
_______30. The average number of milligrams(mg) of cholesterol in a cup of a certain brand of ice
cream is 660mg, and the standard deviation(s) is 35mg. Assume the variable is normally distributed.
If a cup of ice-cream is selected, what is the probability that the cholesterol content will be more than
X−μ
670mg?Hint: z =
σ
a. 38.59% b. 48.59% c. 58.59% d. 68.59%
_______31. Which of the following have 95% confidence coefficients? (Two tailed)
a. ± 1.645 b. ± 1.96 c. ± 2.33 d. ± 2.58
_______32. What is the confidence coefficient if the df =10 at 90% confidence level?
a. 1.812 b. 1.861 c. 1.871 d. 1.882
_______33. What percentile does the t-value of t = 2.306 with df = 8 represent?
a. 80th b. 90th c. 95th d. 99th
For #34 -36 Given: n = 50, E = 1.38 x = 15, σ =5 and 95% confidence level. Hint: x̅ – E < μ<¿ x̅ + E
_______34. What is the lower limit of the interval estimate?
a. 13.56 b. 13.62 c. 14.90 d. 14.93
_______35. What is the upper limit of the interval estimate?
. a. 16.15 b. 16.20 c. 16.38 d. 16.45
_______36. What is the length of the confidence interval? Hint: L= UL- LL
a. 2.49 b. 2.76 c. 2.83 d. 2.92

CREATING: Show your solution.

A pharmaceutical company wishes to estimate the average speed of effect of a pain killer. The
standard deviation from the previous study was 15 minutes. How large a sample must be selected if
he wants to have 95% confidence in finding whether the true mean differs from the sample mean by 5
minutes.?
37. What is the value of the confidence coefficient?
38. What is the value of the marginal error E?
39-40. How large a sample size must be needed? Hint: n = (¿ ¿
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