PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

TAKEHOME QUIZ

NAME:_________________________________

A. Identify the type of sampling method. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper

1. The teacher writes all the names of students in a piece of paper and
puts it in a box for the graded recitation.

2. The teacher gets the class record and call every 4th name in the list.

3. Every five files out of 500 files will be chosen.

4.There are 20 toddlers, 40 teenagers, 45 middle aged and 55 senior

citizens in a certain area. Samples are taken according to the total number of
people in the area.

5. All the names of the employees of the company are put in a raffle box.

B. Complete the statement by filling in the blank. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

A ____________________ is a frequency distribution using the means computed from all possible random samples of
a specific size taken from a population. To get the possible samples use the formula ___________, where N is the
__________ and n is the _____________ size to be taken. The total probability of the sample mean must be equal to
__________.

C. A population consists of the numbers 2, 4, 8, 10 and 5. Let us list all the possible samples of size 3 from this population
and construct the sampling distribution of the sample mean.

D. Construct a sampling distribution of sample mean and answer the questions on your answer sheet.

Samples of 3 cards are drawn from a population of five cards numbered from 1-5.

1.How many are the possible outcomes? _______________________

2.What are the possible means? ______________________________
3.What is the probability of getting 4 as a mean? _________________
4.What is the probability of getting 2 as a mean? _________________
5.What is the probability of getting 3.33 as a mean? ______________