Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region 1
Division of Pangasinan II
Anonang National High School
San Fabian District II
San Fabian, Pangasinan
FINAL EXAMINATION
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Name: Score:
Year & Section: Date:

I. 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 space provided before each item. 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.
a. Random variable c. continuous random variable
b. discrete random variable d. probability mass function
2. Which of the following is not a continuous random variable?
a. the number of deaths per year attributed to motorcycle accidents.
b. the time needed to finish a test
c. the weight of piglets in the pigpen.
d. the speed of a motorcycle.
3. What is the probability of getting doubles when two dice are rolled?
a. 1/8 b. 1/36 c. ½ d. 1
4. Which of the following is not a true statement?
a. The sum of all the probabilities in a probability distribution is always equal to one.
b. The probability of a random variable could be zero.
c. The value of a random variable could be zero.
d. Random 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) =10 , P(2) = 1, P(3) = 12
33 3 33
c. P(1) = , P(2) = , P(3) = 1
9 4

14 14 14
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 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
of citrus wine(X)
ProbabilityP(X) 0.100 0.150 0.250 0.140 0.090 0.080 0.060 0.050 0.040 0.025 0.015

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?

16. Given the mean 𝜇 = 50 and a standard deviation 𝜎 = 4 in reading scores. Find the z-
a. 95.44% b. 94.45% c. 94. 54% d. 95.45%

score that corresponds to score X = 58.

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

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

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
√𝑛
27. The expression 𝛿 is 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

replacement from a population with mean 𝜇 and standard deviation 𝛿 will approach a normal
28. As the sample size (n) increases, the shape of the distribution of the sample means taken with

distribution.
e. 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 is 10 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?
-statistic b. t-statistic c. point estimated. 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

11 students. 𝑋̅ = 17.3 years with population variance of 16. What is the point estimate for 𝜇?
35. A sample of 60 grade 11 students’ ages was obtained to estimate the mean ages of Grade

a. 17.3 b. 16 c. 60 d. 11
36. Find the point estimate of the GPAs of 20 entering Mathematics majors.

4.0 3.5 3.0 3.3 3.8

3.2 3.0 3.5 3.2 3.0
3.0 2.8 5.6 3.0 3.2
3.2 2.9 3.0 2.8 4.0

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

1 2996 499.33
2 2984 497.33
3 2987 497.83
4 2984 497.33
5 2984 497.33
6 2988 498.00
7 2991 498.5
8 2988 498.00
9 2987 497.83
10 2981 496.83

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≥ 30 and the population standard deviation is known, what is the
appropriate distribution?

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

a. z b. t c. p d. n

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

a. ± 1.645 b. ± 1.96 c. ± 2.33 d. ± 2.58

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

42. What is the point estimate of 𝜇?

and the interval 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 between 27 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 between 26.81 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

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

consumption of cars based on the sample of 10 cars.

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

Prepared by:

MIGUEL V. CACHO
Teacher III

Checked by:

ROWENA I. VILLAGRACIA
SHS T-II -Mathematics Error Watch

LEA P. RIVERA
Head Teacher III
OIC- Office of the Senior high school Principal II

HAZEL O. MARIANO, PhD

Principal II