CORE119-Long Test

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CORE119 Summative Test 1

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:

This is a 35-point multiple-choice test.

Read and answer each question
carefully.
You are only given 2 hours to Fnish this
test.
Work independently and observe the
university policy on intellectual
honesty.
You are allowed to use your OWN
CALCULATOR.

“You don’t have to be great to

start, but you have to start to be great.” - ZIG
ZIG
ZIGLAR
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Which of the following statements 1 point

is correct?

Statistics is related to the collection,

analysis, and interpretation of data.

Statistics can be categorized into

three areas: descriptive, inferential,
and simulation.

Statistics is used to analyze the

results of surveys and as a tool in
scientiFc research to make decisions
based on controlled experiments.

Statistics is the science of conducting

studies to collect, organize,
summarize, analyze, and draw
conclusions from data.

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Which of the following is a 1 point

discrete random variable?

the time to Fnish a test

the number of heads in Qipping four

coins

the amount of a rain in a day

the average weight of female athletes

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Which of the following is NOT a 1 point

true statement?

Quantitative variables can be further

classiFed into two groups: discrete
and continuous.

When the characteristics or variable

being studied is non-numeric, it is
called a quantitative variable.

The nominal level of measurement is

considered the lowest, or the most
limited type of measurement.

The ratio level is the highest level of

measurement and has all the
characteristics of interval level.

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What do you call a group of 1 point

subjects selected from a

population?

sample

population

variables

data set

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Which of the following is NOT an 1 point

example of ratio-level data?

The ages of patients in a local

hospital

Weight of chicken in kg

Temperatures of hot tubs in local

health clubs

The time recorded by the runners in

100-meters sprint

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A researcher would like to study 1 point

the management’s capability of

managing organizations in the
Philippines. He had listed 1000
organizations in Metro Manila and
sent questionnaires to 200
randomly selected organizations
from the list. Only 50
questionnaires were
returned. What are the population
from this study?

1000 organizations

200 organizations

50 organizations

None

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A researcher would like to study 1 point

the management’s capability of

managing organizations in the
Philippines. He had listed 1000
organizations in Metro Manila and
sent questionnaires to 200
randomly selected organizations
from the list. Only 50
questionnaires were
returned. What are the sample
from this study?

1000 organizations

200 organizations

50 organizations

None

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A principal, interested in 1 point

determining the teachers’

satisfaction with a new school
policy, decides to select three
from the twelve grades that best
represent the school, and to
interview three randomly selected
teachers from each chosen grade
level. What type of sampling
method should be used?

Cluster

Random

Systematic

StratiFed

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The principal is interested in how 1 point

the teachers feel about the new

library. The principal takes the list,
assigns numbers and select every
10th of the list. What type of
sampling method was used?

Cluster

Random

Systematic

StratiFed

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Considering the data below, what 1 point

is the relative frequency of

students who study between 4
and 6 hours per week?

12%

16%

20%

24%

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Considering the data below, what 1 point

is the cumulative frequency of

students who study 6 or fewer
hours per week?

26

20

36

38

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Considering the data below, what 1 point

percentage of students study

more than 4 hours per week?

20%

35%

50%

55%

Clear selection

How many values fall between 1 point

24.5 and 36.5?

15

16

17

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Which of the following statements 1 point

is most likely true based on the

histogram?

There are more data values in 33.5-

36.5 than in 30.5-33.5.

The majority of the data are between

27.5-30.5.

The class 24.5 and below constitutes

the smallest frequency.

The number of participants

decreases steadily as the class
boundaries increases.

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A population of the weights of all 2 points

U.P. football players: 204 pounds,

215 pounds, 207 pounds, 212
pounds, 214 pounds, 208
pounds. What is the variance? (2
points)

18.8

3.9

4.0

15.7

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A population of the weights of all 1 point

U.P. football players: 204 pounds,

215 pounds, 207 pounds, 212
pounds, 214 pounds, 208 pounds.
What is the Standard Deviation?

18.8

3.9

4.0

15.7

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The following are the ages of 1 point

seven people in a certain locality:

21, 24, 25, 22, 28, 29, and 30. What
is the sample mean age?

25.6

26.7

25.0

27.1

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The test scores of a group of 1 point

students follow a normal

distribution with a mean of 75 and
a standard deviation of 10. If a
student scored 85 on the test,
what is the z-score for this
student?

2.00

1.50

1.25

1.00

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The following data shows the 1 point

distribution of scores on a
Mathematics Test: 105, 95, 85,
110, 100, 90, 80. What is the score
corresponding to the 70th
percentile?

90

95

100

105

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Considering the data below, what 2 points

is the sum of the products of

each test score and its
corresponding weight? (2 points)

850

870

900

925

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Considering the data below, what 2 points

is the weighted mean score? (2

points)

87

87.5

88

88.5

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Considering the data below, if 2 points

each student's test score is

increased by 5 points while
keeping the weights the same,
what will be the new weighted
mean score? (2 points)

89

89.5

92

90.5

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For a given dataset, the skewness 1 point

is calculated to be -0.5. What does

this value indicate about the
distribution?

The distribution is negatively skewed.

The distribution is positively skewed.

The distribution is symmetric.

The distribution is approximately

normal.

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If the skewness of a dataset is 1 point

positive, which of the following

statements is most likely true?

The dataset is normally distributed.

The dataset is symmetric.

The dataset has a longer left tail.

The dataset has a longer right tail.

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If the kurtosis of the dataset is 1 point

found to be -1, what can you infer

about the distribution?

The distribution is platykurtic.

The distribution is leptokurtic.

The distribution is mesokurtic.

The distribution is approximately

normal.

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26.__________ 1 point

-14582.56

27.__________ 1 point

-498.816

28.__________ 1 point

5478.396

29.__________ 1 point

-10602.98

What is the skewness of the 2 points

given dataset? Round off to the

nearest hundredths. (2 points)

-0.10

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