ESPERANZA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Name:_______________________________Date:___________________Score:__________________
I. Direction: Write the letter of your answer on the space before each item number.
1. It is a variable being measured to produce numerical observations associated
with the random outcomes of a chance experiment.
A. fixed variable B. independent variable C. dependent variable D. random
variable
2. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?
A. the number of patients in a hospital
B. the average weight of female athletes
C. the average amount of electricity consumed
D. the amount of paint used in repainting a building
3. What are the possible values of a random variable when a coin is tossed once?
A. Tail (T) and Head (H)
B. The number of dots 1,2,3,4,5,6
C. Tail and Tail (TT), and Head and Head (HH)
D. The pair of even number of dots (2,2),(2,4),(2,6),(4,2),(4,4),(4,6),(6,2),(6,4)
and (6,6)
4. Which is a discrete probability distribution?
A. X 3 4 5 C. X 1 2 3 4

P(X 0.4 0.1 0.0 P(X 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.

) 0 0 5 D. ) 5 5 0 5
B.
5. A fairX coin1is tossed
2 three
3 times
4 and the sequence of heads (H) and tails (T) is
X
observed. What is the probability that no heads will appear?0 2 4 6
A. 1/8 B. 3/8 C. 5/8 D. 2/3
P(X 1/5 1/5 2/5 1/5
For items 6-9.
Cardo sells a maximum of 3 tickets per customer. Let) T be the number of tickets
sold to a random customer. Below is the probability distribution of T.
T 0 1 2 3
P(T) 0.20 ? 0.40 0.23

6. Which probability value would satisfy the given probability distribution?

A. 0.16 B. 0.17 C. 0.18 D. 0.19
7. What is the mean of the probability distribution?
A. 1.64 B. 1.65 C. 1.66 D. 1.67
8. What is the variance of the probability distribution?
A. 2.18 B. 2.19 C. 2.20 D. 2.21
9. What would be the best interpretation you can create given the mean of the
probability distribution?
A. Most customers will purchase 3 tickets.
B. Cardo can expect to have more tickets sold.
C. A group of 10 customers will purchase exactly 29 tickets.
D. If we look at a large number of customers, then each customer, on the
average, will have purchased about 1.66 tickets.
10. The area under the part of normal curve in the standard normal distribution
that lies within 2 standard deviations of the mean is
A. 68% B. 95% C. 99.7% D. 100%
 11. What is the first step in finding the variance of a discrete probability
distribution?
A. Calculate the standard deviation
B. Find the mean of the probability distribution
C. Subtract the mean from each value of the random variable X
D.Multiply the square of the difference of X and the mean by each value of the
random variable.
12. The area under the part of normal curve in the standard normal distribution
that lies within 2 standard deviations of the mean is
B. 68% B. 95% C. 99.7% D. 100%
13. Which statement is NOT true about the variance of a discrete random variable?
A. Variance is always nonnegative.
B. It tells the average of the items in a discrete probability distribution
C. It measures how far apart the elements of the set are spread out
D. High variance indicates that the data points are very spread out around the
mean.
14. Which of the following is NOT a property of a normal curve?
A. The total area under it is 1.
B. The curve is symmetric about the center.
C. It is divided into positive 2 and negative 2 standard deviations
D. The mean, median, and mode have the same value and are located at the
same point.
15. A set of Mathematics exam scores has a mean of 68 and a standard deviation
of 8. A set of English exam scores has a mean of 75 and a standard deviation of 10.
For which exam would a score of 78 have a higher standing?
A. Math B. English C. both Math & English D. cannot be
determined
16. What is “P(a<x<b)”?
A. The area to the left of a. C. The area between a and b.
B. The area to the right of a. D. The area to the right of b.
17. Evaluate the raw score of the student in a biology test where the equivalent z-
score is 0.98. The mean of the test was 88 with a standard deviation of 9.5.
A. 95 B. 96 C. 97 D. 98
18. The midterm examination scores in Statistics and Probability follows a normal
distribution with mean of 38 and a standard deviation of 2. If Felix is included in
the top 5%, what minimum score should Felix have?
A. 40 B. 41 C. 42 D. 43
19. Which of the following illustrates a systematic sampling method?
A. A researcher conducted a survey of 50 randomly selected workers from each
of these categories: high school graduate, with undergraduate degrees, with
master’s degree, and with doctoral degree.
B. A researcher interviewed all freshmen in each of 15 randomly selected public
schools in Surigao del Norte.
C. A researcher doing a research work on students’ reaction of the newly
implemented curriculum and interviewed every 10th student entering the
gate.
D. A researcher selected a sample of n = 120 from a population 850 using the
Table of Random Numbers.
20. What do you call a portion or representative of population?
A. Parameter B. Population C. Sample D. Statistic
21. Which of following is true about the mean of the sample means?
A. The mean of the sample mean is equal to the population mean.
B. The mean of the sample mean is equal to the population mean divided by
the population variance.
 C. The mean of the sample mean is equal to the square of population mean.
D. The mean of the sample mean is equal to the square root of population
mean.
For items 25-26. Below are the scores of 8 Grade 11 students in Statistics quiz.
7, 8, 12, 15, 10, 11, 9, 14
22. What is the mean of the sample means of size 3?
A. 9.50 B. 9.75 C. 10.50 D. 10.75
23. What is the variance of the sample means of size 3 if the population variance is
6.9375?
A. 1.5 B. 1.6 C. 1.7 D. 1.8
24. What distribution is used to estimate population parameters when the
population variance is unknown, and the sample size is less than 30?
A. Chi-square Distribution C. t-Distribution
B. Pearson Correlation D. z-Distribution
25. Given µ =10, σ = 3 and n = 40. Which of the following distribution of the sample
mean for a normal population when the population variance is known?
A. Chi-square Distribution C. t-Distribution
B. Pearson Correlation Coefficient D. z-Distribution
26. A History teacher claims that the average height of Filipino males is 163
centimeters. A student taking up Statistics randomly select 10 Filipino males and
measure their heights. Their heights in centimeter are
163,167,159,165,162,164,163,160,169 and 174. To test the claim, which test is
appropriate?
A. chi-square test B. t-test C. f-test D. z-test
27. Which of the following states that the sampling distribution of the sample means
approaches a normal distribution as the sample size gets larger?
A. Central Limit Theorem C. Limit Theorem
B. Law of Large Numbers D. Bayes Theorem
28. The record of weights of the male population follows the normal distribution. Its
mean and standard deviation are 70 kg and 15 kg respectively. If a researcher
considers the records of 50 males, what would be its standard deviation?
A. 2.11 B. 2.12 C. 2.13 D. 2.14
29. Given a set of data, which of the following refers to number of independent
observations that are free to vary after a sample statistic has been computed?
A. Degrees of freedom B. Mean C. Standard error D. Variance
30. The following are common properties of z-distribution and t-distribution, except:
A. The mean, median, and mode are zero.
B. The total area under the curve is 100%.
C. The curve is asymptotic to the x-axis.
D. The variance is always greater than 1.
31. The following are characteristics of t-distribution except
A. It is symmetric about the mean 0.
B. It is bell-shaped but has a heavier tail.
C. It depends on the degrees of freedom.
D.As the degrees of freedom decreases, it approaches to standard normal

32. Which of the following t is the t-value when µ= 127, 𝑥̅= 120, s=14 and n=18?
distribution.

A. -2.120 B. -2.110 C. +2.110 D. +2.120

33. In a t-distribution, if the sample size is 15, what is the degree of freedom?
A. 12 B. 13 C. 14 D. 15
For items 33-35
The Principal wants to know the mean age of all entering trainees in a boot
camp. The mean age of a random sample of 25 trainees is 18 years and the
population. Use 𝛼=0.1 to find what is asked.
standard deviation is 1.3 years. The sample comes from a normally distributed

34. What is the margin of error E?

A. 0.83 B. 0.73 C. 0.63 D. 0.53
35. What is the interval estimate of the population mean?
A. 19.27 to 20.71 B. 18.37 to 19.73 C. 17.27 to 18.73 D. 17.07
to 18.03
35. Based on question number 5, how long is the interval?
A. 1.72 B. 1.46 B. 0.72 D. 1.96

36-40. Find the area above z = 1.31 and show these graphically. Use probability
notation in your final answer.

Steps Solutions
1. Draw the normal curve and locate
the
given z-value at the base line of the
curve. Then, draw a vertical line
through the given z-value and shade
the required
region.

2. Use the z-table to find the areas that

correspond to the given z-value or
values.

3. Examine the graph and use

probability notation to form an equation
showing the appropriate operation to
get the required area.

4. Write the concluding statement

indicating the required area.
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