Statistics Examination/ AY 2014-2015

Long Examination
Name: ________________________________________ Date:____________
Schedule: ______________________

Determine whether the data set represents a population or a sample.

1. The GPA of all graduating seniors.

2. The amount of the grocery bill for every 5th customer at NVM shopping mall.

3. A math teacher reports the results of a new Algebra 1 program by randomly selecting the scores of 20
students.

4. A researcher describes the use of cigarettes by teenagers in the Philippines.

Classify the data as quantitative or qualitative.

5. Colors of shirts in the room.

6. Number of backpacks in the room.

7. Grade level of students in the room (freshmen, sophomore, etc.)

8. Weight of textbooks in each backpack.

Identify the data set’s level of measurement – nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio.
9. The socioeconomic classes of a group of families are low, middle, high.

10. The teachers on the 3rd floor teach math, social studies, or science.

11. Weight of textbooks as measured on a scale.

12. Temperatures in Spartanburg, Greenville, and Mauldin at noon on July 4th.

13. Favorite TV comedy: 1st – Everyone Loves Raymond; 2nd – My Wife and Kids; 3rd – Simpsons.

14. Amount of money in pockets of students in the room.

15. Daily intake of calories of twelve dieters.

16. Degree of test anxiety (high, medium, low)

17. Number of days absent from school during 1st semester.

18. Nationality of students in the room.

19. Height of student’s in the room.

20. Years in which presidential elections are held.

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Part II

Find the mean, median and mode for the following situations:
1. Joey’s first 8 quiz scores in his Social Stat class were:
86 84 91 75 78 80 74 84

a. mean ________ b. median ________ c. mode ________

d. Joey made a 30 on his next quiz. What is his new mean? _________
e. What caused the mean to decrease? ___________________________
f. What is the new median? ________

2. Roger Maris had these home run totals in his 10 years in the Philippine League:
13 23 26 16 33 61 28 39 14 8
a. mean ________ b. median ________ c. mode ________

3. Last year a small accounting firm paid each of its five clerks Php 22,000, two junior
clerks Php 50,000 and one owner Php 270,000.

Find the following:

a. mean ________ b. median ________ c. mode ________
d. How many employees earn less than the mean? ________________

4. Construct a frequency distribution and frequency histogram for the data set using the
indicated classes.

Ages of sample employees who were donors during a recent blood drive:

35 53 62 43 22 43 24 32 36 38 39 56 25 64
26 31 36 48 41 23 39 31 45 30 44 35 62 50
38 44 32 35 41 37 29 46 24 58 44 42

Frequency Distribution
4.1 Which class has the highest frequency?
Class frequency 4.2 Which class has the lowest frequency?
20-29 4.3 The second class has what frequency?
4.4 Find the mean
30-39 4.5 Find the median
40-49 4.6 P50
50-59 4.7 D7
60-69

5. A combination lock has digits from 0 to 39 on it. Three numbers are required to open the
lock.
5.1 How many combinations are possible if you cannot repeat any digits?
5.2 How many combinations are possible if you cannot have the same digit twice in a
row?

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6. For a normally distributed data, compute the values of Z given that the mean score is 56
and variance is 64.
6.1 For x=72, Z=_____ 6.4 For x=40, Z=_____
6.2 For x=68, Z=_____ 6.5 For x=52, Z=_____
6.3 For x=64, Z=_____ 6.6 For x=48, Z=_____

7. Find the area of the normal curve as indicated below.

7.1 P( Z = 2.15) = ___________ 7.4 P( Z �-2.15) = ___________
7.2 P( Z �2.15) = ___________ 7.5 P( Z �-2.15) = ___________
7.3 P ( Z �2.15) = ___________ 7.6 P (0.9 �Z �2.15) = ___________

8. Find the value of Z, that will satisfy the given expression below
8.1 P ( Z �z ) = 0.9292 , z = ______
8.2 P ( Z �z ) = 0.9292 , z = ______
8.3 P ( 0 �Z < z ) = 0.4292 , z = ______
8.4 P ( - z �Z �z ) = 0.8558, z = _____

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