STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Second Semester
Quarter 3 - 1st Summative Test
Name: _____________________________________ Grade/Section: ________________ Score: ________

I. Multiple Choice. Choose the letter that corresponds to the correct answer.
______ 1. Let 𝑋 be the number of typographical errors found per page in certain books. The table below shows a
probability distribution of 𝑋.
What is 𝑃(𝑋 = 3)? 𝑋 0 1 2 3 4
a. 0.02 c. 0.10 𝑃(𝑋) 0.70 0.15 0.10 0.01
b. 0.04 d. 0.09

______ 2. Let 𝑋 be the number of boys in a family with four children. The probability distribution is presented below.
𝑋 0 1 2 3 4
𝑃(𝑋) 1 6 4 1
16 16 16 16
What is P(X=1)?p
1 1 5 3
a. b. c. d.
4 16 16 4
______ 3. Which of the following can be a probability distribution for a discrete random variable 𝑋?

a. 𝑋 0 1 2 3 4
𝑃(𝑋) 0.10 0.25 0.30 0.40 0.15
b. 𝑋 2 4 6 8 10
𝑃(𝑋) 0.05 1.15 0.15 0.55 0.15

c. 𝑋 -1 1 3 5 7
𝑃(𝑋) 0.30 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.20
d. 𝑋 0 1 2 3 4
𝑃(𝑋) 0.40 0.15 0.15 0.20 0.10

______ 4. Suppose that there are four colored candies in a box, two red and two blue, what is the probability that you will
get a red candy in one random picking?
1 1 1 2
a. b. c. d.
4 2 6 3
______ 5. Let 𝑋 be the number of accidents in a particular intersection in a week. The table below shows a probability
distribution of 𝑋.
𝑋 0 1 2 3 4
𝑃(𝑋) 0.45 0.25 0.15 0.10 0.05
What is the probability that at most two accidents happen in a particular week?
a. 0.35 b. 0.25 c. 0.85 d. 0.15
II. Identification
A. Identify the whether the given variable is discrete or continuous. Write D if it is discrete and C if it is continuous.
______ 6. The number of people in class who are taller than me
______ 7. The amount of water drained from a pipe
______ 8. How much time a person spends on social networking sites
______ 9. The number of reported road accidents along EDSA in January 2016
______ 10. The length of time it takes a swimmer to complete a 100-meter butterfly lap
______ 11. The number of students not wearing proper uniform during Fridays.
______ 12. The weights of newly born babies in EBMC.
______ 13. The number of motorcycles in a parking lot every noon.
______ 14. The number of gifts received by a birthday celebrator.
______ 15. The length of time spent in playing mobile legends in minutes.
B. Direction: Identify which of the following are discrete probability distributions. Write DPD if the distribution is discrete
probability distribution and NDPD if it is not a discrete probability distribution
______16. ______19. X 1 2 3 4 5
X 1 2 3 4 5 P(X) 0.05 0.27 0.34 0.28 0.05
P(X) 0.1 0.2 0.25 0.4 0.05
______17. _____ 20. X 1 2 3 4 5
X 1 2 3 4 5 P(X) 1/10 3/10 1/5 ¼ 3/10
P(X) 0.03 0.22 1.01 0.23 0.02
______18
 X 1 2 3 4 5
P(X 0.08 0.25 0.34 0.31 0.02
)