LET REVIEW

PROBABILITY and STATISTICS

Test Questionnaire

Multiple Choices: Write the letter of your answer before the number.

1. Which of these is an example of a categorical variable?

I. Flavor of soft drink ordered by each customer at a fast food restaurant.
II. Height, measured in inches, for each student in a class.
III. Points scored by each player on a team.
IV. Best place to market appropriate internet products.
a. I only b. II only c. II & III d. I & IV
2. Numerical and pictorial information about variable are called
a. analytical statistics b. descriptive statistics
c. inferential statistics d. Categorical Statistics
3. Which of the statements below were inferential statistics have been used?
I. A survey local employees found that the mean amount of the travel allowance
for executives was $0.25 per mile.
II. A large University reports that the salary of parents of an entering class is
$91,600.
III. The American Automobile Association claims that 54% of fatal car/truck
accidents are caused by driver error.
IV. The difference between the highest score and lowest score in statistics
examination is 34.
a. I only b. II only c. II & III d. I & IV
4. Statistical inference is
a. The process of estimates and conclusions carefully based on data from a sample.
b. The process of estimates and conclusions carefully based on data from an entire
population.
c. Pictorial displays that summarize data.
d. Organization of the collected data.
5. Which is best for categorical variables?
a. bar chart c. box and whisker plot
b. stem and leaf plot d. Frequency Polygon chart
6. The entire group on interest for a statistics conclusion is called the
a. data b. sample c. population d. variable
7. which is best for numerical variable?
a. bar chart b. pie chart c. stem and leaf plot d. Pareto chart
8. Use the frequency polygon below showing the number of tickers, which vary by price
depending on seat location, sold for one-day concert tickets. What is the cumulative frequency
for the $30 price?

Price
a. 3 b. 16 c. 19 d. 21

Use the box plot below showing the ages of the contestant in a singing competition for question
9and 10.
9. What is the quartile deviation?
a. 3 b. 14 c. 15 d. 16
10.What percent of contestants are age 19 or above?
a. 25% b. 50% c. 67% d. 75%
11. A survey will be given to 100 students randomly selected from freshmen class at Lincoln
High School. What is the population?
a. the 100 selected students
b. all freshmen at Lincoln High School
c. all students at Lincoln High School
d. all students and staff at Lincoln High School
12. A mean is known as a statistic if it is computed from the
a. parameter b. population c. sample d. population and sample
13. The difference between s and o is that
a. s is for a sample and o if for a population
b. s is for a population and o is for a sample
c. s is a parameter and o is not
d. s is a parameter and o is population
14. The Central Limit Theorem says that the sampling distribution of the sample mean is
approximately normal if
a. all possible samples are selected.
b. the sample size is large.
c. the standard error of the sampling distribution is small.
d. none of the above
15. The Central Limit Theorem says that the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample
mean is
a. equal to the population mean divided by the square root of the sample size.
b. close to the population mean if the sample size is large.
c. exactly equal to the population mean
d. equal to the square root of the population mean
16. The Central Limit Theorem says that the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of
the sample means is
a. equal to the population standard deviation divided by the square root of the sample
size.
b. equal to the population mean divided by the square root of the sample size.
c. close to the population standard deviation if the sample size is large.
d. exactly equal to the standard deviation.

Use the stem and leaf plot below showing the running times in a 400 m run for 19 runners with
6│0 representing 60 seconds for question 17 through 22.

17. What is the median?

a. 71 b. 72 c. 73 d. 74
18. How many values would be considered modes?
a. zero b. one c. two d. three
19. What is the mean?
a. 65 b. 72.368 c. 74 d. 75
20. What is the sample standard deviation?
a. 9.001 b. 8 c. 64 d. 81.018
21. What is the quartile deviation?
a. 7 b. 8 c. 9 d. 10
22. What is P36?
a. 68.4 b. 68.8 c. 69 d. 70
23. Approximately what percentage of normally data values will fall within 1 standard deviation
above or below the mean?
 a. 68% b. 95% c. 99.7% d. variable
24. Which is not a property of the standard normal distribution?
a. It’s symmetric about the mean
b. it’s uniform
c. it’s bell-shaped
d. Mean = Median
25. the mean of the standard normal distribution is
a. 0 b. 1 c. -1 d. 2
26. The number of absences per year that a worker has is an example of what type of data?
a. Nominal b. Ordinal c. Interval d. ration
27. What are the boundaries of 25.6 – 28.4 ounces?
a. 25 – 28 ounces c. 25.55 – 28-45 ounces
b. 25.65 – 25.45 ounces d. 26 – 29 ounces
28. Data can be classified according to color are measured on what scale?
a. Nominal b. Ratio c. Ordinal d. Interval
29. A variable that interferes with other variable in the study is called
a. A confounding variable c. An explanatory variable
b. An outcome variable d. An interfering variable
30. Which of the following measurements is different from the other?
a. Mean b. Median c. Q2 d. D2
31. This refers to the observations belonging to the class interval for the number of items within
a category.
a. Class Boundaries b. Class Frequency c. Class Mark d. Cumulative Frequency
32. A girl has four blouses, three skirts, and two pairs of shoes. In how many ways can she dress
up?
a. 9 b. 24 c. 36 d. 1
33. how many 3-letter words can be formed from the letters of the English alphabet if no letter
can be used more than once?
a. 455 b. 15,600 c. 17,576 d. 78
34. A student wishes to take either a mathematics course or a biology course but not both. If
there are 4 mathematics course and biology courses for which the student has the necessary
prerequisites. How many mays the student can choose a course to take in?
a. 24 b. 12 c. 7 d. 1
35. How many sample points are there in the sample space after rolling the 6 dice?
a. 720 b. 46,656 c. 6 d. 64
36. In how many ways can 10 students line up the bursar’s window?
a. 10 b. 362,880 c. 3, 628, 800 d. 90
37. How many 4-digit numbers can be formed from the integers 0 to 9
(a) If no integer can be used more than once?
a. 4,536 b. 3, 024 c. 126 d. 6,561
(b) if the number begins with the integer 1?
a. 40, 320 b. 336 c. 504 d. 729
38. How many sitting arrangement are possible if 15 people are to sit in a circle?
a. 15 b. 14 c. 151 d. 14!
39. How many distinct permutations can be made from the letters of the words
SUPERSTITIOUS?
a. 129,729,600 b. 129,729,600 c. 192,729,600 d. 6,227,020,800
40. Four records are selected at random from a collection consisting of 5 jazz records, 2 classical
records, and 3 polka records. What is the probability that 3 jazz records will be selected from
the collection?
a. 3/21 b. 5/21 c. 25/53 d. 13/27
41. The probability that a student owns a car is 0.65, and the probability that a student owns a
computer is 0.82. If the probability that a student owns both is 0.55. What is the probability
that a given student is
a) Owns a car or a computer
a. 0.92 b. 0.55 c. 0.08 d. 0.0.97
b) Owns neither a car nor a computer
a. 0.92 b. 0.55 c. 0.08 d. 0.0.97
42. At a used-book sale, 100 books are adult book and 160 are children’s books. Of the adult
books, 70 are nonfiction while 60 of the children’s book are nonfiction. If a book is selected at
random find the probability that
a) The book is a fiction
a. 1/4 b. 1/3 c.1/2 d. 2/3
43. A fair die is tossed twice. Find the probability of getting 4,5 or six on the first toss and a 1, 2,
3, or 4 on the second toss.
1 2 1 3
a. b. c. d.
3 3 4 3
44. Determined the probability of three 6’s in five tosses of a fair die.
a. 0.0268 b. 0.0322 c. 0.1608 d. 0.0056
45. If the probability that the average freshmen will not complete 5 years of an engineering
course is 2/5. What is the probability that 4 freshmen, at least 3 will complete the 5-year
course?
a. 0.3456 b. 0.4752 c. 0.6544 d. 0.9872
46. One thousand tickets are sold at $1 each for four prizes of $100, $50, $25, and $10. After
each prize drawing, the winning ticket is then returned to the pool of ticket. What is the
expected value if a person purchases two tickets?
a. -$1.63 b. -$1.53 c. -$1.4 d. $ 1.3
47. In how many ways can a committee consisting of 2 men and 3 women can be chosen from 6
men and 8 women?
a. 6 b. 48 c. 2, 002 d. 840
48. In how many ways can a student choose 4 books a set of 7 different books?
a. 24 b. 28 c. 35 d. 840
49. In how many ways can a committee of 4 be chosen from 10 people?
a. 210 b. 120 c. 40 d. 14
50. In how ways can four books can be chosen from 10 different books and arranged in 4 spaces
on a shelf?
a. 5,040 b. 4,050 c. 210 d. 840
51. Supposed that each child born to a couple is equally likely to be boy or a girl, independently
of the sex of the other children in the family. If a couple has four children, then what are the
probabilities of the following events
a.) All four children are girls
1 1 1 1
a. b. c. d.
16 8 4 2
b.) All four are of the same sex
1 1 1 1
a. b. c. d.
16 8 4 2
c.) exactly two are boys
1 3 1 1
a. b. c. d.
2 8 4 8
d.) there is at least one boy
1 3 13 15
a. b. c. d.
16 16 16 16
52. After having shaken hands all around, it was found that 45 handshakes had been
interchanged. How many persons were in the party?
a. 990 b. 45 c. 15 d. 10
53. Forty guest consisting 24 men and 16 women are to be seated in eight rows each row
having five chairs. There men and two women are to occupy each row seated alternately. How
many possible ways of grouping of guests are there?
a. 40! b. 24! c. 16! d. 16!24!
54. Gretel is going to buy two books in mathematics, two books in science and one book in
psychology. If there are five different books in mathematics, five in science and three books. In
psychology, in how many possible ways can she make the purchase?
a. 4 b. 75 c. 300 d. 500
55. A student is to take two courses. The first meets at any one of 3 hours in the morning, and
the second at any one of 4 hours in the afternoon. Find the number of schedules that are
possible for the students?
a. 24 b. 12 c. 7 d. 1
56. Twenty items, six of which are defectives and 14 are not were inspected one after the other.
If these items are chosen at random without replacement, what is the probability that
a) The first three items are defective?
1 27
a. b.0.229 c. d. 0.0013
57 1,000
b.) The first three items are not defective?
1 26 27 91
a. b. c. d.
57 57 1,000 285
c.) Among the first three items inspected, three is one defective and two not defective?
91 147 91 9
a. b. c. d.
190 1,000 570 10
57. How many sample points are there in the sample space if a coin is flipped 20 items?
a. 20 b. 40 c. 400 d. 1,048,576
58. There 4 pots of different colors. If we arranged 2 of these in a row, how many arrangements
there will be?
a. 4 b. 8 c. 12 d.24
59. Fifteen female contestants enter the “Mutyang Stat Center” contest in how many mays can
the trophies for the “Mutya”, the 1st runner-up and 2nd runner-up be awarded?
a. 720 b. 45 c. 2,730 d. 455
60. If a multiple0choice test consist of 5 question each with 4 possible answer of which only one
is correct. In how many different ways can a student check off one answer to each question?
a. 54 b. 24 c. 1024 d. 19,958,400
61. In how many relative orders can 5 men and 5 women be seated around a table, with men
and women alternating?
a. 120 b. 5,760 c. 576 d. 2,880
62. If two die are tossed, in how many ways can they show a total of 6?
a. 5 b. 4 c. 3 d. 12
63. From a bag containing 6 white and 8 black balls, in how many ways can we form a group of
5 balls involving
(a) Exactly 3 white balls?
a. 48 b. 560 c. 336 d. 62
(b) At least three white balls
a. 686 b. 868 c. 42 d. 20
64. From the digits (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9), how many numbers of seven different digits each can be
formed in which odd and even alternate?
a. 4,320 b. 4,230 c. 2880 d.5,760
65. A college plays 10 footballs games during a season. In how many ways can the team end the
season with 6 wins, 3 losses and 1 draw?
a. 3,628,800 b. 840 c. 5,040 d. 9
66. In how many ways can 5 plus sign and 5 minus signs be written in aline?
a. 10 b. 25 c. 14,400 d. 28,800
67. How many committees of 6 men each can be selected from 9 men, if a certain 2 men refuse
to serve together on any committee?
a. 54 b. 28 c. 42 d. 56
68. A student takes a 20-question, true/false exam and guesses on each question. Find the
probability of passing if the lowest passing grade is 15 correct out of 20 correctly?
a. 1.66 x 10−7 b. 3.45 x 10−7 c. 3.45 x 10−8 d. 5.2 x 10−8
69. In how many ways can five English books, three Mathematics books, and two history books
be arranged on a shelf so that all books with the same title are together?
a. 30 b. 1,440 c. 8,640 d. 3,628,800
70. The lotto uses number 1-42. A winning number consist of six (6) different numbers in any
order. What are your chances of winning it?
a. 0.00000019 b. 0.0000019 c. 0.000019 d. 0.0019
71. A bag contains 3 white and 5 black balls. If two balls are drawn in succession with
replacement, what is the probability that both balls are black?
a. 0.3906 b. 0.3571 c. 0.625 d. 0.268
72. One bag contains 4 white balls and 2 balls; another contains 3 white balls and 5 black balls.
If one ball is drawn from each bag, find the probability that one is white and one is black?
13 1 5 5
a. b. c. d.
24 8 12 96
73. A coin is tossed 5 times. Determined the probability of getting at least 3 heads.
1 1 1 1
a. b. c. d.
4 3 2 8
74. A lottery offers one $1000 prize, one $500 prize, and 5 $100 prizes. One thousand tickets
are sold at $3 each. Find the expectation if a person buys one ticket.
a. -$1 b. -$1.5 c. -$1.75 d. $2
75. The average amount of rain per year in Greenville is 49 inches. The standard deviation is 8
inches. Find the probability that next year Greenville will receive at most 57 inches of rain.
a. 0.7734 b. 0.6734 c. 0.5734 d. 0.8413
76. The average repair cost of a microwave oven is $55, with a standard deviation of $10. The
cost are normally distributed. If 16 ovens are repaired, find the probability that the mean of the
repair bills will be greater than$60.
a. 0.9848 b. 0.0228 c. 0.0152 d. 0.1152
77. The average electric bill in a residential area is $72 for the month of April. The standard
deviation is $6. If the amounts of the electric bills are normally distributed, find the probability
that the mean of the bill for 36 residents will be less than $75.
a. 0.9987 b. 0.8935 c. 0.1265 d. 0.0265
78. A sample used in a market survey contains 100 males and 100 females. Of these, 33 males
and females state a preference for brand A. Suppose the researcher wants to test the
hypothesis that no sex differences exist in consumer preference, what will be the most
appropriate method to test the hypothesis?
a. t-test b. Chi-square c. z-test d. Pearson r
79. What test is used to compare three or more means?
a. t-test b. Chi-square c. z-test d. ANOVA
80. The null hypothesis in the ANOVA is that all the means are_________.
a. Equal b. Unequal c. Variable d. None of the Above
81. To test the equality of two variances, one would use a(n)_____test.
a. z b. t c. Chi – square d. F
82. When the t-test is used for testing the equality of two means, the populations must be____.
a. Normal b. Not normal c. Equal variance d. Unequal Variance

Table 1.
Data relating eye color and blood factor of patients at a community hospital

Blood Eye Color

Factor Blue Brown Green
Rh + 25 36 16
Rh - 22 30 20

83. The most appropriate statistical tool to be used to test the hypothesis for the data in table 1
is
a. Chi-square b. Z-test c. Pearson r d. ANOVA
84. If the computed chi-square values in table 1 is significant, the two variables being studied
are
a. Not associated b. Independent c. related d. Dependent
85. What is the degree of freedom for a t-ration if the variances are equal and there were 10
boys and 14 girls in the study?
a. 9 b. 13 c. 22 d. 23
86. What type of test would you apply for problem number 42?
a. z-test b. Dependent t-test c. ANOVA-test d. Independent t-test
87. If the computed t-ratio in problem number 42 is 2.578, and the critical values at .05 and .01
levels of significance are 2.021 and 2.704, respectively, which of the following would be a
correct decision to make?
I. Accept the null hypothesis at the 0.01 level of significance
II. Reject the null hypothesis at the 0.05 level of significance
III. Reject the null hypothesis at the 0.01 level of significance
IV. Reject the alternative hypothesis at the 0.05 level of significance

a. I & II b. II & III c. III & IV d. II & IV