STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

QUARTER 3 WEEK 1-4

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer.

1. If three coins are tossed, which is NOT a possible value of the random
variable for the number of tails?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

2. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?

A. Length of electrical wires C. Amount of sugar used in a cup of coffee
B. Number of pencils in a box D. Voltage of car batteries

3. Which of the following is NOT a discrete variable?

A. Number of white marbles in the box.
B. Number of students present in the classroom.
C. The weight of a box of soft drinks labeled “8 ounces.”
D. The number of customers arrived in the restaurants between 7:00 a. m to 5:00 p.m.

4. Which of the following statement describe a continuous random variable?

A. The average distance traveled by a jeep in a week.
B. The number of students present in a Class Anthurium.
C. The number of motorcycles owned by a randomly selected household.
D. The number of girls taller than 5 feet in a random sample of 10 girls.

5. Which of the following is a variable whose value is obtained by measuring?

A. Continuous B. Discrete C. Interval D. Nominal

6. You decide to collect a bunch of bottles of soft drink and measure the
volume of soft drink in each bottle. Let X be the number of milliliter (ml) of soft
drink in each bottle. What type of variable is X?
A. X is a constant.
B. X is a place holder.
C. X is a discrete random variable.
D. X is a continuous random variable.

7. Which of the following statements describe a discrete random variable?

A. The length of span of a 10-months baby.
B. The average increase in height of a baby each year.
C. The average increase in weight of a baby each year.
D. The number of avocados produced by an avocado tree each year.

8. X is the time it takes a chef to cook a specific dish, is a continuous random

variable. Why do think the variable X in the statement becomes continuous?
The variable X is continuous because it takes….
A. a range of values C. an integral value.
B. takes a countable value. D. a specific numerical value

9. If a coin is tossed, what are the possible values of the random variable for
the number of heads?
A. 0, 1 B. 0, 1, 2 C. 1, 2, 3 D. 0, 1, 2, 3
10. Suppose you tossed two coins. What are the sample spaces for the
experiment above?
A. HH, TT C. HH, TH, TT
B. HH, HT, TT D. HH, HT, TT, TH

11. If you tossed a die, which of the following is NOT a possible value of the
random variable X representing the number of dots appeared at the top
after tossing the die?
A. 1 B. 7 C. 6 D. 3

12. How many ways can a "double" come out when you roll two dice?
A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8

13. What do you call the weighted average of the possible values that a random
variable can take?
A. Variance of discrete random variable C. Mean of discrete random variable
B. Simple Variance D. Simple Mean

14. Which tells us how much we can expect results to deviate from expected value?
A. Variance of discrete random variable C. Mean of discrete random variable
B. Simple Variance D. Simple Mean

15. Which of the following statements is a description of low variance?

A. The probability of scores is almost the same as the mean.
B. The data are close to the mean.
C. Both statements A and B
D. None of the above

16. Which of the following statements is a description of high variance?

A. The probability of scores is almost the same as the mean.
B. The probability of scores are scattered around the mean.
C. The data are closed to the mean
D. All of the above.

17. What must be the sum of the probabilities P(X) of all the values in the discrete
random variable?
A. 1% B. 10% C. 100% D. 1 000%

18. What measure should you use to determine what most likely be the probability
of an event to happen?
A. Variance of discrete random variable C. Mean of discrete random variable
B. Simple Variance D. Simple Mean

19. What measure should you use to determine how far or close the probability of
events from the center or the mean?
A. Variance of discrete random variable C. Mean of discrete random variable
B. Simple Variance D. Simple Mean

20. It is a numerical quantity that is assigned to the outcome of an experiment.

A. random variable C. probability
B. variable D. probability distribution

21. It is a variable that assumes numerical values associated with the events of an experiment.
A. random variable C. probability
B. variable D. probability distribution

22. It is the central or average of its corresponding probability mass function.

A. mean C. standard deviation
B. variance D. probability
23. What is the mean outcome if a pair of die is rolled once?
A. 1.5 B. 2.5 C. 3.5 D. 4.5

24. Find the mean of the probability distribution involving the random variable X that gives the
number of heads that appear after tossing four coins once.
A. 4 B. 3 C. 2 D. 1

25. The probabilities that a printer produces 0,1,2, and 3 misprints are 42%, 28%, 18%, and
12% respectively. What is the mean value of the random variable?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

26. These are two values that describe how scattered or spread out the scores are from the mean
value of the random variable.
A. variance and standard deviation C. probability and statistics
B. mean and probability distribution D. mean and variance

27. 1. Which of the following denotes the standard normal distribution?

A. A B. X C. Y D. Z

28. Which of the following describes the standard normal distribution?

A. has a mean of zero (0) and a standard deviation of 1.
B. has a mean of 1 and a variance of zero (0).
C. has an area equal to 0.5.
D. cannot be used to approximate discrete probability distributions.

29. Which of the following is a variable whose possible values are determined by chance?
A. Dependent Variable C. Extraneous Variable
B. Independent Variable D. Random Variable

30. What must be the sum of all the probabilities of a random variable?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3

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31. If P(X) = , what are the possible values of X for it to be a probability distribution?
x
A. 0, 2, 3 B. 1, 2, 3 C. 2, 3, 4 D. 1, 1, 2

32. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?

A. Height of basketball player C. Number of books in the library
B. Weight of a newborn baby D. Length of time in watching TV

33. A random variable X can take only two values, 1 and 2, P (1) = 0.8 and P (2)= 0.2. What is
the variance of X?
A. 0.16 B. 0.26 C. 0.4 D. 0.76

34.Suppose three coins are tossed. Let H be the random variable representing the number of
heads that occur. Which of the following is NOT a possible value of the random variable for the
number of heads?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

35. A random variable X has a mean of 4 and a standard deviation of 2. What is the
corresponding z-score for x = 7?
A. 0.5 B. 1.0 C. 1.5 D. 2

36. What is the area if the z - score given is -1.83?

A. 0.0344 B. 0.0336 C. 0.0329 D. 0.0322

37. What is the z-value if the area is 0.9608?

A. -1.76 B. -1.77 C. 1.76 D. 1.77

38. Using the standard normal curve, what is the approximate area of P(1.63 < Z < 2.79)?
A. 0.0049 B. 0.0490 C. 0.9484 D. 0.9974

39. The weights (in kg) of 11-STEM B follow a 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 C. 0.9192 D. 0.9332

40. What is the value of 97.5th percentile in a standard normal distribution?

A. -1.96 B. -1.97 C. 1.96 D. 1.97

41. What is the value of 67th percentile in a standard normal distribution?

A. -0.43 B. -0.44 C. 0.43 D. 0.44

42. What is a random variable where the data can take infinitely many values?
A. Continuous random variable C. Both discrete & continuous
B. Discrete random variable D. None of these choices

43. Which of following shows a graphical form of the probability distribution for
a continuous random variable?
A. Bell shape C. Rectangular shape
B. Box shape D. Circular shape

44. What is the total area under the normal curve?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 6

45. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a normal distribution?

A. Asymptotic C. The X , Md and the Mo differ
B. Symmetrical D. The area is between 0 to 1

46. Which term defines that the normal curve gets closer and closer to the
horizontal axis but never touches it?
A. Asymptotic C. Parabolic
B. Asymmetrical D. Symmetrical

47. What is the skewness of a normal curve?

A. -1 B. 0 C. 1 D. 3

48. What is the area that corresponds to z-value, ? = 0.3?

A. 0.07926 C. 0.12172
B. 0.11791 D. 0.15542

49. What is the area that corresponds to z-value, ? =− 0.5?

A. 0.07926 C. 0.15542
B. 0.12172 D. 0.19146

50. What is the area that corresponds to z-value, ? = 1.25?

A. 0.3531
B. 0.3749
C. 0.3944
D. 0.4115
10. What percentage of the normal curve is ? ± ? ?
A. 50% B. 68% C. 75% D. 95%