3RD PERIODICAL IN STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

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Directions: Read each question carefully. Choose your best answer. Encircle the letter of your chosen answer.
1. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?
a. The average amount of electricity consumed
b. The number of patients in a hospital
c. The amount of paint used in repainting a building
d. The average weight of female athletes
2. If two coins are tossed, which is not a possible value of the random variable for the number of heads?
a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d. 3
3. Which of the following is not a true statement?
a. The value of a random variable could be zero.
b. Random variables can only have one value.
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.
4. Which formula gives the probability distribution shown by the table?
X 2 3 6
P(x) 1/2 1/3 1/6
a. P(x) = 1/x c. P(x) = 6/x
b. P(x) = x/6 d. P(x) = 1/6
5. If P(x) = x/6, what are the possible values of x for it to be a probability distribution?
a. 0, 2, 3 c. 2, 3, 4
b. 1, 2, 3 d. 1,1, 2
For numbers 6-8, refer to the probability distribution shown below.
X 0 1 2 3
P(x) 1/8 3/8 3/8 1/8
6. What is the mean of the probability distribution?
a. 1.5 b. 1.2 c.1.6 d. 1.8
7. What is the variance of the probability distribution
a. 0.75 b. 1.00 c. 1.25 d. 0.5
8. What is the standard deviation of the probability distribution?
a. 1.00 b. 0.87 c. 1.12 d. 0.71
For numbers 9-10, refer to the probability distribution shown below.
X 0 2 4 6 8
P(x) 1/5 1/5 1/5 1/5 1/5
9. What is the mean of the probability distribution?
a. 1.5 b. 2.0 c. 3.5 d. 4.0
10. What is the variance of the probability distribution?
a. 4.15 b. 6.35 c. 8.00 d. 7.50
11. Which of the following statements is correct?
a. The mean of the sampling distribution of the means is less than the population mean.
b. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means is greater than the population mean.
c. The means of the sample drawn from a population are always equal to the population mean.
d. The means of the samples drawn from a population may be equal, greater than or less than the
population mean.
12. A certain population has a mean of 15.4 and a standard deviation of 5.6. If random samples of size 5 is
taken from this population, which of the following statements is correct?
a. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means is equal to 15.4.
b. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means is less than 15.4.
c. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample means is 5.6.
d. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample means is 15.4.
13. How many possible of size n = 3 can be drawn from a population of size 12?
a.36 b. 1728 c. 144 d. 220
14. What is the shape of the sampling distribution of the means if random samples of size n become larger?
a. Left skewed c. normal
b. Right skewed d. rectangular
15. If the variance of the population is 10, what is the variance of the sampling distribution of the means of
size 5 drawn from this population?
a. 2 b. 4.47 c. 1.41 d.10
 16. Which sample size will give a smaller standard error of the mean?
a. 12 b. 20 c. 25 d. 35
17. What is the finite population correction factor is the size of the population is 200 and the sample size is
25?
a. 0.979 b. 0.879 c. 0.938 d. 0.856
For numbers 8-10, refer to the problem below.

The average precipitation for the first 7 months of the year is 19.32 inches with a
standard deviation of 2.4 inches. Assume that the average precipitation is normally
distributed.

18. What is the probability that a randomly selected year will have precipitation greater than 18 inches for
the first 7 months?
a. 0.7088 b. 0.8523 c. 0.4562 d. 0.1258
19. What is the average precipitation of 5 randomly selected years for the first 7 months?
a. 19.32 inches c. 20.52 inches
b. 22.4 inches d. 15.56 inches
20. What is the probability of 5 randomly selected years will have an average precipitation greater than 18
inches for the first 7 months?
a. 0.8907 c. 0.4156
b. 0.2587 d. 0.2879
21. What do you call the set of all people, objects, events, or ideas you want to investigate?
a. Sample c. data
b. Population d. statistics
22. A sample refers to _____________ of a population.
a. A subset c. a description
b. A list d. another name
23. What is the mean of 13, 27, 29, 17 and 14?
a. 29 b. 28 c. 20 d. 13
24. What do you call a number that describes a population characteristics?
a. Sample statistics c. variable
b. Parameter d. decimal
25. Which of the following symbols denotes population mean?
a. 𝑥̅ b. σ c. µ d. s
26. Which of the following symbols denotes population standard deviation?
a. 𝑥̅ b. σ c. µ d. s
27. In statistics, error refers to:
a. Mistake resulting in wrong decisions
b. Mistake resulting from computation
c. Difference between two parameter values
d. Difference between an observed value and a parameter
28. Which of these values is a parameter?
a. 𝑥̅ b. x c. µ d. z
29. What do you call processes involved in making conclusions about population values?
a. Estimating population c. inferential statistics
b. Hypothesis testing d. descriptive statistics
30. Subsets of populations are called:
a. Samples c. estimates
b. Elements d. averages
31. Which of the following best represents the central value of a set of data?
a. Variance c. proportion
b. Average d. standard deviation
32. What do you call a single value that may refer to a parameter value/
a. Z statistic c. point estimate
b. T statistic d. Interval estimate
33. The _______________ is range of values that contains the parameter value.
a. Confidence limits c. Confidence Coefficient
b. Confidence interval d. Confidence level
34. What do we call the probability that a parameter is contained in a range of values?
a. Confidence level c. Confidence coefficient
b. Confidence limit d. Confidence interval
35. Which of the following shows graphical results in making inferences about population values?
 a. Pie graph c. trend line
b. Bar graph d. Normal Curve
36. Which of the following are the 95% confidence coefficients?
a. ±1.645 b. ±1.96 c. ±2.33 d. ±2.58
37. When α = 0.01, the critical values are:
a. ±1.645 b. ±1.96 c. ±2.33 d. ±2.58
38. When n < 30 and the population standard deviation is not known, what is the app ropriate distribution?
a. z b. t c. r d. p
39. When n ≥ 30 and the population standard deviation is known, what is the appropriate distribution?
a. z b. t c. r d. p
40. In a t distribution, the critical values are based on:
a. n b. z c. t d. df
41. When x = 50 and n = 215, what is the value of 𝑝̂ ?
a. .23 b. 4.3 c. 50 d. 215
42. When x=120 and n=406, what is the value of 𝑞̂?
a. 0.30 b. 20.3 c.120 d.406
43. Given n = 50, σ=1.2 and α=0.01. The maximum error E is approximately:
a. 0.330 b. 0.39 c. 0.44 d. none of these
44. Which of the following illustrates confidence level?
a. 32.8 b. 30-39 c. 90% d. 90%-94%
45. Given n=80 and 𝑥̅ = 76.5, s=3.1. Which of these is the point estimates of the population mean?
a. 80 b. 76.6 c.8.9 d. 3.1
For numbers 46-50, refer to the problem below:
The mean gasoline consumption of 10 cars is 28 liters with a standard deviation of 1.6 liters. Find the
point and the interval estimates using 95% confidence level.
46. What is α?
a. 95% b. 28 c. 1.6 d. 0.05
47. What is the point estimate of µ?
a. 95% b. 28 c. √10 d. 1.6
48. What is the appropriate distribution?
a. Z b. t c. p d. s