Third Quarterly Assessment in Statistics and Probability

S.Y. 2019-2020

Name: ________________________________________ Score: ________________________

Grade Level and Section: _________________________ Date: _______________________

Directions: Encircle the letter that corresponds to the best answer in each phrase or statement. You
may use scientific calculator. Avoid erasures.

1. What refers to the set of possible outcomes that is countable?

A. discrete random variable C. continuous random variable
B. statistics D. probability

2. What is the probability of getting 2 tails in tossing 2 coins?

A. 1 B. ½ C. ¼ D. 0

For questions 3-6, refer to the table below.

x y
1 5
2 6
3 7
4 8

3. What is the value ∑x?

A. 10 B. 11 C. 12 D. 13

4. What is the value ∑y?

A. 16 B. 17 C. 20 D. 26

5. What is the value ∑xy?

A. 50 B. 70 C. 90 D. 110

6. What is the value ∑( x+y )?

A. 35 B. 36 C. 37 D. 38

7. What is the probability of getting a sum of 13 in tossing two dice?

A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3

8. What is the probability of getting 2 in tossing two dice?

A. 1/36 B. 3/36 C. 5/36 D. ½

For number 9-11 refer to the table below.

Number of Patients (x) Probability (P(x)) x·P(x)
3 0.15 0.45
4 0.10 0.4
5 0.20 1
6 0.25 1.5
7 0.30 2.1

9. What is the mean of the data?

A. 5.2 B. 5.3 C. 5.4 D. 5.45

10. What is the variance of the probability distribution?

A. 1.0 B. 1.25 C. 1.39 D. 1.95

11. Which of the following correctly interprets the obtained results?

A. On the average, there are 5.3 or 5 patients, with a variance of 1.25.
B. On the average, there are 5.2 or 5 patients, with a variance of 1.0.
C. On the average, there are 5.45 or 5 patients, with a variance of 1.95.
D. On the average, there are 5.4 or 5 patients, with a variance of 1.39.
For items 12-14, refer to the word problem below.
Suppose 2 coins are tossed. Let X be the number of heads that occur. Find the probability of each
of the values of the random variable X.
x P(x) x·P(x)
0 ¼ 0
1 2/4 2/4
2 ¼ 2/4

12. What is the mean of the probability distribution?

A. 1.0 B. 1.2 C. 1.4 D. 1.6

13. What is the variance of the probability distribution?

A. 1.0 B. 0.5 C. 0.25 D. 0

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

A. 0.71 B. 0.85 C. 1.25 D. 1.85

15. What is the total area under the normal curve?

A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3

16. How many percent of a score is between z=0 and z= 1?

A. 2.5% B. 5% C. 34% D. 68%

For items 17 and 18, refer to the following:

i. The number of books in the library iii. The weight of Grade 11 students
ii. The number of tourists each day in museum iv. The number of girls in Grade 11 students

17. Which of the listed above is a continuous variable?

A. i B. ii C. iii D. iv

18. Which of the listed above is/are discrete variable/s?

A. i only B. ii and iii C. i, ii, iii D. i, ii, iv

19. Which of the following is NOT a property of the normal probability distribution?
A. The distribution curve is bell-shaped.
B. The curve is symmetrical about its center.
C. The mean, median and mode coincide at the center.
D. The curve touches the baseline.

20. What is the area that corresponds to z = 2.0?

A. 0.4772 B. 0.4778 C. 0.4783 D. 0.4788

21. Which of the following is a property of a probability distribution?

A. The sum of the probabilities of all values of the random variable must be between 0and 1.
B. The sum of the probabilities of all values of the random variable must be equal to 1.
C. The probability of each value of the random variable must be equal to 1.
D. The probability of each value of the random variable must be greater than 1.

22. Which of the following is a probability distribution?

A. P(1) = 0.5, P(2) = 0.2, P(3) = 0.3 C. P(1) = 0.5, P(2) = 1.0, P(3) = 0
B. P(1) = 0, P(2) = 0.2, P(3) = 0.9 D. P(1) = 1.0, P(2) = 0.7, P(3) = 0.3

23. Which of the following shows the correct probability mass function in obtaining tail/s in tossing a
coin twice?
A. x 1 2 3 C. x 0 1 2
P(x) 1/4 2/4 1/4 P(x) 1/4 2/4 1/4

B. x 1 2 3 D. x 0 1 2
P(x) ½ 0 1/4 P(x) ½ 0 1/4

24. What is the area corresponding to z= 1.06?

A.0.3413 B.0.3438 C. 0.3508 D. 0.3554
25. What is the z-value that corresponds to a score of 64 if the mean is 60 and standard deviation is
2?
A. 2.00 B. 2.02 C. 2.12 D. 2.14

26. In a Science test the mean score of a certain class was 26, with standard deviation of 4. Ben
got 20. How was his standing in Science class?
A. Ben performed 1.5 above the mean. C. Ben performed 1.6 above the mean.
B. Ben performed 1.5 below the mean. D. Ben performed 1.6 below the mean.

For questions 27-29, use the following data: Population mean, μ=4900 ; standard deviation, σ=100

27. What is the z - value of x = 5025?

A. 1.0 B. -1.0 C. 1.25 D. -1.25

28. What is the area that corresponds to the computed z value?

A. 0.3849 B. -0.3869 C. 0.3944 D. -0.3972

29. Which graph best illustrates the given?

30. Which of the following is NOT synonymous with the others?

A. perimeter B. proportion C. probability D. percentage

31. What kind of distribution has equal mean, median, and mode?
A. proportional B. normal C. sampling D. equivalent

32. What has a mean equal to 0 and standard deviation equal to 1?

A. probability distribution C. standard normal curve
B. random variable D. sample space

33. What represents the distance between a given measurement X and the mean in a normal
distribution, and which is expressed in standard deviations?
A. variance B. area C. raw score D. z-score

34. Using the z table, what is the area from z = 0 to z = -2.0?

A. 0.3944 B. 0.4772 C. -0.3944 D. -.4772

35. What is the area bounded by z = 1.0 and z = 2.0?

A. 0.3944 B. 0.4772 C. 0.1359 D. 0.0828

36. What is the total area under the standard normal curve of -2.25 ≤ z ≤ 1.50?
A. The total area is 0.2734 or 27.34% of the normal curve.
B. The total area is 0.4332 or 43.32% of the normal curve.
C. The total area is 0.4878 or 48.78% of the normal curve.
D. The total area is 0.9210 or 92.10% of the normal curve.

37. What is the total area between z = -1 and z = 1 under the normal curve?
A. 34.13% B. 68.26% C. 95.44% D. 99.74%
38. Which of the following statements DOES NOT correspond to the figure below?

A. The total area of the shaded region is 0.9544 or 95.44%.

B. The total probability of the shaded area is 0.9974 or 99.74%.
C. At the base of the normal curve, the shaded region has 2 standard deviations to the left
and 2 to the right.
D. The distribution is symmetrical below and above the mean which have the same
percentages of 0.4772 or 47.72%.

39. What is the probability of an area of a normal curve whose z is to the right of 1.84?
A. 0.0329 B. -0.0329 C. 0.4671 D. -0.4671

40. What is the area corresponding to P (0 ≤ z ≤ 1.5) in a standard normal curve?

A. 0.4032 B. 0.4332 C. 0.9032 D. 0.2881

41. What is the area corresponding to P (z ≤ 1.3) in a standard normal curve?

A. 0.4032 B. 0.0968 C. 0.9032 D. 0.2881

42. What is the area corresponding to P (-1.3 ≤ z ≤ 1.5) in a standard normal curve?
A. -0.8064 B. 0.8364 C. -0.0968 D. 0.0968

For items 43-45, use the sample mean X = 45 and standard deviation s = 5.

43. What is the area corresponding to P (X ≤ 41) in a standard normal curve?

A. 0.4192 B. 0.2119 C. -0.0808 D. -0.4192

44. What is the area corresponding to P (X ≥ 59) in a standard normal curve?

A. 0.0139 B. 0.4974 C. 0.4861 D. 0.0026

45. What is the area corresponding to P (38 ≤ X ≥ 59) in a standard normal curve?
A. 0.8384 B. 0.9948 C. 0.9166 D. 0.9192

46. If two coins are tossed, which is not a possible value of the random variable for the number of
heads?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3

47. In rolling two dice, which is not possible value of the random variable for the sum of two
numbers?
A.1 B. 3 C. 5 D. 7

48. The result of a nationwide aptitude test in mathematics are normally distributed with m= 80 and
s=15. What is the raw score such that 70% of the cases are below it?
A.87.5 B. 87.8 C. 88.1 D. 88.4

49. What refers to the set of all possible outcomes of an experiment?

A.sample space B. continuous C. discrete D. random variable

50. What refers to a function that associates a real number to each element in the sample space?
A. sample space B. continuous C. discrete D. random variable