PERIODICAL TEST IN STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

2ND QUARTER 2ND SEMESTER 2024-2025

Multiple Choice. Read and analyze each item carefully. Use a separate sheet
for your solutions, when necessary, then write the letter of correct answer in
the ½ length wise paper. Write the answers in CAPITAL LETTERS.

1. It is a function that associates a real number with each element in the

sample space and usually determined by chance.
[Link] variable c. continuous random variable
[Link] random variable d. probability mass function

2. Which of the following is not a continuous random variable?

[Link] number of deaths per year attributed to motorcycle accidents.
[Link] time needed to finish a test
[Link] weight of piglets in the pigpen.
[Link] speed of a motorcycle.

3. What is the probability of getting doubles when two dice are rolled?
a.16 b. 136 c. 12 d. 1

4. Which of the following is not a true statement?

[Link] sum of all the probabilities in a probability distribution is always equal
to one.
[Link] probability of a random variable could be zero.
[Link] value of a random variable could be zero.
[Link] variables can only have one value.

5. Which of the following cannot serve as values of a probability distribution?

a.P(1) = 0.08, P(2) = 0.12, P(3) = 1.03
b.P(1) =1033, P(2) = 13, P(3) = 1233
c.P(1) =914, P(2) = 414, P(3) = 114
d.P(1) =0, P(2) = 0.71, P(3) = 0.39

For number 6, consider the probability distribution of the number of

bottles of citrus wine sold in a given day at the cooperative store.
Number of bottles of citrus wine
x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
P(x) 0.1 0.15 0.25 0.14 0.09 0.08 0.06 0.05 0.04 0.02 0.01
5 5

6. What is the probability that the store can sell at least 2 but not more than
six bottles of citrus wine in a day?
a.0.26 b. 0.36 c. 0.62 d. 0.63
7. Which of the following description of items in a discrete probability
distribution is not measured by the variance and the standard deviation?
a. average b. spread c. dispersion d. variability

8. A certain population has a mean of 15.4 and a standard deviation of 5.6,

if a random sample 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
mean is 5.6.
d. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample
means is 15.4

For numbers 9-11, refer to the probability distribution of the number of

boxes of carrot cake that are delivered each day.
X 3 6 8 10
P(x) 0.15 0.35 0.40 0.10

9. What is the mean of the probability distribution?

a.4 b. 6.75 c. 2 d. 3.99

10. What is the variance of the probability distribution?

a.4 b. 6.75 c. 2 d. 3.99

11. What is the standard deviation of the probability distribution?

a.4 b. 6.75 c. 2 d. 3.99

12. What do you call a continuous, symmetric, and bell-shaped distribution of

variables?
a. histogram b. pie Chart c. normal curve d. line graph

13. In a standard normal distribution, the mean is ______ and the standard
deviation is _____.
a.1,0 b. 0,1 c. 1,1 d. 0,0

14. According to the z-table what region under the normal curve is bounded
between z = 0 and z = 3?
a.0.4798 b. 0.4978 c. 0.4987 d. 0.4897

15. What percentage is bounded by the area between z=-2 to z= 2?

a.95.44% b. 94.45% c. 94. 54% d. 95.45%
16. Given the mean 𝜇=50and a standard deviation 𝜎=4in reading scores.
Find the z-score that corresponds to score X = 58.
a.1.25 b. 1.5 c. 1.75 d. 2

17. In a Math test the mean 𝑋̅=26 and the s=4. What is the corresponding z-
score of the score X = 20?
a.-1.25 b. -1.5 c. -1.75 d.-2

18. About what percentage of the area of a normal distribution lies within 1
standard deviation below and 1 standard deviation above the mean?
a.68% b. 90% c. 95% d. 99%

19. In a standard normal Distribution, what percent of the area falls below
the mean?
a.95% b. 90% c. 68% d. 50%

20. A type of sampling where every subset of a specified size n from the
population has an equal chance of being selected.
a. Simple random sampling c. systematic sampling
b. Stratified sampling d. convenience sampling

b. 𝜎 c. 𝜇 d. 𝑠
21. Which of the following symbols denotes population mean?
a.𝑋̅

22. Which of the following statements is correct?

a. The means of the samples drawn from a population may be equal, greater
than or 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 samples drawn from the population are always equal to
the population mean.
d. The mean of the sampling distribution of the means is less than the
population mean.

23. How many possible size n = 3 can be drawn from the population of size
12?
a.36 b. 144 c. 220 d. 1728

24. What is the mean of 13, 27, 29, 17, and 14?
a.29 b. 28 c. 20 d. 13

25. 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.1.41 b. 2 c. 4.47 d. 10
26. This consists of means derived from all possible random samples of
specific size obtained from a population.
a. A sampling distribution of sample proportions
b. A sampling distribution of sample variances
c. A sampling distribution of samples
d. A sampling distribution of sample means

27. The expression 𝛿√𝑛is referred to as:

a. Mean of the sampling distributions of sample means
b. Standard deviation of the raw score in an infinite sampling distribution of
sample means
c. Mean of the sampling distribution of proportions
d. Standard error of the sampling distribution of means

28. As the sample size(n)increases, the shape of the distribution of the

standard deviation 𝛿 will approach a normal distribution.

sample means taken with replacement from a population with mean𝜇and

a. Baye’s Theorem b. Central limit Theorem

c. Z-distribution d.t-Distribution

29. Which sample size will give a smaller standard error of the mean?
a.12 b. 20 c. 25 d. 35

30. What is the finite correction factor if 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

31. The average cholesterol content of a certain cup of avocado ice cream is
215 milligrams, and the standard deviation is10 milligrams. What is the
probability that the cholesterol content will be greater than 220 milligrams?
a.38.05% b. 30.58% c. 35.08% d. 30.85%

32. What do you call a number that describes population characteristics?

a. statistic b. parameter c. variable d. decimal

33. What do you call to a single value that may refer to a parameter value?
a. Z-statistic b. t-statistic c. point estimate d. interval estimate

34. Which of the following best represents the central value of a set of data?
a. Variance b. average c. proportion d. standard deviation

mean ages of Grade 11 students. 𝑋̅= 17.3 years with population variance of
35. A sample of 60 grade 11 students’ ages was obtained to estimate the

16. What is the point estimate for 𝜇?

a.17.3 b. 16 c. 60 d. 11
36. Find the point estimate of the GPAs of 20 entering Mathematics
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a.3.31 b. 3.32 c. 3.33 d. 3.34

37. Based from the following 10 random samples of 60 bottled citrus juice,
what is the point estimate of the population mean?
Sample Sum of bottle contents (ml) Means 0.12996499 0.3322984497
0.3332987497, 0.8342984497 ,0.3352984497 ,0.3362988498
0.0072991498, 0.582988498, 0.0092987497, 0.83102981496
a.479.83 b. 479.38 c. 497.83 d. 497.38

38. Which of the following illustrates confidence level?

a.32.8 b. 30-39 c. 90% d.90% -94%

39. When n≥30and the population standard deviation is known, what is the
appropriate distribution?
a. z b. t c. p d. N

40. When n> 30 and 𝛼=0.01, the critical values are:

a.±1.645 b. ±1.96 c. ±2.33 d. ±2.58

41. Given n = 50 𝛿=1.2and 𝛼= 0.01. the maximum error 𝐸is approximately;

a.0.330 b. 0.39 c. 0.44 d. none of these

For numbers 42-48. The mean gasoline consumption of 10 cars is 28 liters

with a standard deviation of 1.6 liters. Find the point and the interval

42. What is the point estimate of 𝜇?

estimate using 95% confidence level.

a.95% b. 28 c. 10 d. 1.6

43. What is the appropriate distribution to use?

a. Z b. t c. p d. s

44. What are the confidence coefficients?

a.±1.96 b. ±2.26 c.±2.33 d. ±2.58

45. The lower limit is approximately_________.

a.27 b. 26.86 c. 26.81 d. 26.68

46. The upper limit is___________.

a.29 b. 29.19 c. 29.14 d. 29.32

47. What is the maximum error?

a.1.14 b. 1 c.1.19 d. 1.32
48. What conclusion can be made about population?
a. With 95% confidence the interval between27 liters and 29 liters
contains the mean gasoline consumption of cars based on the sample
of 10 cars.
b. With 95% confidence the interval between 26.86 liters and 29.14 liters
contains the mean gasoline consumption of cars based on the sample
of 10 cars.
c. With 95% confidence the interval between26.81 liters and 29.19 liters
contains the mean gasoline consumption of cars based on the sample
of 10 cars.
d. With 95% confidence the interval between 26.68 liters and 29.32 liters
contains the mean gasoline consumption of cars based on the sample
of 10 cars.

49. When 𝑋̅= 50 and n = 215, what is the value of 𝑝̂?

a.0.23 b. 4.3 c. 50 d. 215

50. When 𝑋̅= 120 and n = 406, what is the value of 𝑞̂?
a.0.30 b. 0.70 c. 0.03 d. 0.07
For numbers 51-56In a survey of 1200 households, 586 said they manage
their trash by separating the biodegradables from non-biodegradables. Use
95% confidence to estimate the proportion of all household who have good
practices of trash management.
_______51. What is the point estimate of the population proportion?
a.1200 b. 586 c. 0.49 d. 0.51

_______52. What are the confidence coefficients?

a.±1.96 b. ±2.26 c. ±2.33 d. ±2.58

_______53. The margin of error E is approximately ________.

a.0.05 b. 0.04 c. 0.03 d. 0.01

a. adding𝑧𝛼2by standard deviation of the sampling distribution of 𝑝̂

______54. The maximum error of the estimate is found by

b. subtracting 𝑧𝛼2 by standard deviation of the sampling distribution of 𝑝̂

c. multiplying 𝑧𝛼2 by the standard deviation of the sampling distribution
of 𝑝̂
d. dividing 𝑧𝛼2by standard deviation of the sampling distribution of 𝑝̂

_______55. The true population proportion falls between ________

a.44% and 54% c. 46% and 52%
b.45% and 53% d. 48% and 50%

_______ 56. What conclusion can be made about the population proportion?
a. With 95% confidence the interval from 48% to 50% contains the true
percentage of households who have good trash management practices.
b. With 95% confidence the interval from 45% to 53%contains the true
percentage of households who have good trash management practices.
c. With 95% confidence the interval from 44% to 54% contains the true
percentage of households who have good trash management practices.
d. With 95% confidence the interval from 46% to 52% contains the true
percentage of households who have good trash management practices.

_______57. What do we call the probability that the interval estimate contains
the parameter?
a. Confidence level c. Confidence coefficient
b. Confidence limit d. Confidence interval

For number 58, consider the problem below. A certain barangay embarked
on a “Quit Smoking Program”. Out of 500 randomly selected sample of
smokers, 278 said they would join the program.

_______58. With 99% confidence, what is the interval estimate of the

population proportion?
a.49.9 % to 61.3% c. 48.9% to 62.3%
b.48.1% to 63.1% d. 50% to 61.2%

_______59. Given : 95% confidence, E = 0.08, 𝑝̂= 0.38, the sample needed is
approximately ______.
a.124 b. 140 c. 104 d. 142

_______60. In a gym, a physical exercise has a mean length of 30 minutes

with a standard deviation of 6 minutes. An instructor wants to estimate the
true mean length exercise with maximum error at 0.5 adopting a 95%
confidence interval. How many respondents is needed?
a.554 b. 455 c. 545 d. 454