ESTIMATION OF POPULATION PARAMETERS

CHAPTER TEST I
I. Solve and Answer the following Problems
1. You take a random sample from some population and form a 96%
confidence interval for the population mean, Which quantity is guaranteed
to be in the interval you form?
a) 0
b) 
c) x
d) .96
2. Suppose you conduct a significance test for the population proportion and
your p-value is 0.184. Given a 0.10 level of significance, which of the following
should be your conclusion?
a) accept HO
b) accept HA
c) Fail to reject HA
d) Fail to reject HO
e) Reject Ho
3. Decreasing the sample size, while holding the confidence level the same,
will do what to the length of your confidence interval?
a) make it bigger
b) make it smaller
c) it will stay the same
d) cannot be determined from the given information
4. Decreasing the confidence level, while holding the sample size the same,
will do what to the length of your confidence interval?
a) make it bigger
b) make it smaller
c) it will stay the same
d) cannot be determined from the given information
5. If you increase the sample size and confidence level at the same time, what
will happen to the length of your confidence interval?
a) make it bigger
b) make it smaller
c) it will stay the same
d) cannot be determined from the given information
6. Which of the following is a property of the Sampling Distribution of x ?
a) if you increase your sample size, x will always get closer to the
population mean.
b) the standard deviation of the sample mean is the same as the standard
deviation from the original population 
c) the mean of the sampling distribution of x is the population mean.
d) x always has a Normal distribution.
7. Which of the following is true about p-values?
a) a p-value must be between 0 and 1.
b) if a p-value is greater than .01 you will never reject HO.

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 c) p-values have a N(0,1) distribution d) None of the above are true.
8. Suppose that we wanted to estimate the true average number of eggs a
queen bee lays with 95% confidence. The margin of error we are willing to
accept is 0.5. Suppose we also know that s is aboutWhat sample size
should we use?
a) 1536
b) 1537
c) 2653
d) 2650
9. What should be the value of z used in a 93% confidence interval?
a) 2.70
b) 1.40
c) 1.81
d) 1.89
10. “What are the possible values of x-bar for all samples of a given n from
this population?” To answer this question, we would need to look at the:
a) test statistic
b) z-scores of several statistics
c) standard normal distribution
d) sampling distribution
e) probability distribution of x
II. Questions 11-14
A certain brand of jelly beans are made so that each package contains about
the same number of beans. The filling procedure is not perfect, however. The
packages are filled with an average of 375 jelly beans, but the number going into
each bag is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 8. Yesterday, Jane
went to the store and purchased four of these packages in preparation for a
Spring party. Jane was curious, and she counted the number of jelly beans in
these packages - her four bags contained an average of 382 jelly beans.

11. In the above scenario, which of the following is a parameter?

a) The average number of jelly beans in Jane’s packages, which is 382.
b) The average number of jelly beans in Jane’s packages, which is unknown.
c) The average number of jelly beans in all packages made, which is 375.
d) The average number of jelly beans in all packages made, which is
unknown.

12. If you went to the store and purchased six bags of this brand of jelly
beans, what is the probability that the average number of jelly beans in your bags
is less than 373?
a) .2709
b) .3085
c) .4013
d) .7291

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13. Why can we use the Z table to compute the probability in the previous
question?
a) because np>15 and n(1-p) > 15
b) because n is large in this problem
c) because the distribution of jelly beans is Normal
d) because the average is large

14. According to the central limit theorem, what is the standard deviation of
the sampling distribution of the sample mean?
a) The standard deviation of the population
b) The standard deviation of the sample
c) The standard deviation of the population divided by the square root of the
sample size
d) The standard deviation of the sample divided by the square root of the
sample size

III. Questions 15-18

Researchers are concerned about the impact of students working while they
are enrolled in classes, and they’d like to know if students work too much and
therefore are spending less time on their classes than they should be. First, the
researchers need to find out, on average, how many hours a week students are
working. They know from previous studies that the standard deviation of this
variable is about 5 hours.

15. A survey of 200 students provides a sample mean of 7.10 hours worked.
What is a 95% confidence interval based on this sample?
a) (6.10, 8.10)
b) (6.41, 7.79)
c) (6.57, 7.63)
d) (7.10, 8.48)

16. Suppose that this confidence interval was (6.82, 7.38). Which of these is
a valid interpretation of this confidence interval?
a) There is a 95% probability that the true average number of hours worked
by all UF students is between 6.82 and 7.38 hours.
b) There is a 95% probability that a randomly selected student worked
between 6.82 and 7.38 hours.
c) We are 95% confident that the average number of hours worked by
students in our sample is between 6.82 and 7.38 hours.
d) We are 95% confident that the average number of hours worked by all UF
students is between 6.82 and 7.38 hours.

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17. We have 95% confidence in our interval, instead of 100%, because we need
to account for the fact that:
a) the sample may not be truly random.
b) we have a sample, and not the whole population.
c) the distribution of hours worked may be skewed
d) all of the above
18. The researchers are not satisfied with their confidence interval and want
to do another study to find a shorter confidence interval. What should they
change to ensure they find a shorter confidence interval?
a) They should increase their confidence level and increase their sample size.
b) They should increase their confidence level but decrease their sample size.
c) They should decrease their confidence level but increase their sample size.
d) They should decrease their confidence level and decrease their sample
size.
IV. Questions 19-20
Recent studies have shown that 20% of Americans fit the medical definition of
obese. A random sample of 100 Americans is selected and the number of obese
in the sample is determined.

19. What is the sampling distribution of the sample proportion?

a) p ˆ ~ N(10, 0.2)
b) p ˆ ~N(2, 1.27)
c) p ˆ ~N(0.2, 0.04)
d) Can not be determined
20. What is the probability that the sample proportion is greater than 0.24?
a) 0.1841
b) 0.1587
c) 0.8413
d) 1.0
V. Questions 21-23:
Suppose we are interested in finding a 95% confidence interval for the mean
SAT Verbal score of students at a certain high school. Five students are
sampled, and their SAT Verbal scores are 560, 500, 470, 660, and 640.
21. What is the standard error of the sample mean?
a) 16.71
b) 37.36
c) 83.55
d) 113.2

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22. What is the 95% confidence interval for the population mean?
a) (462.3, 669.7)
b) (469.9, 662.1)
c) (486.3, 645.7)
d) (492.8, 639.2)

23. The method used to calculate the confidence interval in the previous
question assumes which one of the following?
a) The sample mean equals the population mean.
b) The sample standard deviation does not depend on the sample drawn.
c) The population has an approximately normal distribution.
d) The degrees of freedom df ≥ 30.

24. A sample of size 45 is drawn from a slightly skewed distribution. What is

the approximate shape of the sampling distribution?
a) Skewed Distribution
b) Binomial Distribution
c) Normal Distribution
d) Uniform Distribution

25. When are p-values negative?

a) when the test statistic is negative.
b) when the sample statistic is smaller than the proposed value of the
parameter
c) when the confidence interval includes only negative values
d) when we fail to reject the null hypothesis e) never
APPENDICES

TEST 1 TEST 2 TEST 3 TEST 4 TEST 5

1. C 11.C 15.B 19.C 21.B

2. D 12.A 16.D 20.B 22.A
3. A 13.C 17.B 23.C
4. B 14.C 18.C 24.C
5. D 25.E
6. C
7. A
8. B
9. C
10. D

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 ESTIMATION OF POPULATION PARAMETERS
CHAPTER TEST II

Identify the symbols of the following. Find the answer to Column B from column
A.
A B
26. X A. Population mean
27. ℳ B. Variance

28.𝜎 2 C. Mean
29. 𝜎 D. Probability Outcome
30.𝜇 E. Standard Deviation
Multiple Choice. Find the letter of the correct answer.
31. It is any value describing a characteristics of the population.
A. Mean B. Parameter C .Variance
32. Any numerical value describing a characteristics of a sample.
A. Statistics C. Variance
B. Standard Deviation
33. Average of a group characteristics. The group could be a person, item, or things.
A. Population mean C. Variance
B .Mean
34. The expectation of the squared deviation of a random variable from its mean.
A. Population Mean C. Variance
B. Mean
35. It refers to the average that is use to derive the central tendency of the data in question.
A. Standard Deviation C. Variance
B. Mean
36. Measure of the amount of variation or dispersion indicates that the value tend to be close to
the mean of the set.
A. Standard Deviation C. Variance
B. Mean

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37. It is a value that approximates a parameter. It is based on a sample statistics computed from
sample data.
A. Estimate C. Confidence level
B. Statistics
38. In statistics it is called the process of determining values parameter.
A. Estimation
B. Statistics
C. Confidence level
39. A fraction expression where the favorable response is in the numerator and the total
number of respondents is in the denominator, it involves division. Thus the result is a decimal
value that can be expressed as percent.
A. Proportion
B. Sample size
C. Statistics
40. It is a sampling distribution of the random variable t computed from the means of standard
deviation of sample size n taken from a normal distribution with mean 𝜇 .
A. T-distribution
B. T-density function
C. T-values
Problem Solving.
41-45.
The average serum cholesterol level of 36 male Filipinos who are 20 to 60 years old selected at
random in certain locality is 200mg. per 100ml. With the standard deviation of 40mg per 100ml.
From this data obtain a 95% confidence interval for the true mean cholesterol of all male
Filipinos of the same age bracket in the locality.
46-50.
In a certain village, Leony wants to estimate the mean weight 𝜇, in kilograms, of all six-years old
children to be included in a feeding program. She wants to be 99% confident that the estimate
of 𝜇 is accurate to within 0.06kg. Suppose from a previous study, the standard deviation of the
weights of the target population was 0.5kg, what should be the sample size.

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Answer Key:
26. D 34. C
27. C 35. B
28. B 36. A
29. E 37. A
30. A 38. A
31. B 39. A
32. A 40. A
33. A
41-45.
𝜎 𝜎
(Χ − 1.96 ,Χ + 1.96 )
√𝑛 √𝑛

X = 200
𝜎 = 40
n = 36
40 40
200 – 1.96 ( ) < 𝜇 < 00 + 1.96 ( )
√36 √36

Or P(186.93 < 𝜇 < 213.07) = .95

46-50.
𝑎⁄
𝓃 = ( 2 𝑥 𝜎)2
𝐸
(2.58)(0.5) 2
𝓃=( )
0.06
1.96 2
𝓃=( )
0.06
𝓃 = (21.5)2
𝓃 = 462.25

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