ACOT103 N1 Preliminary Exam

Department of Mathematics February 19, 2021

College of Science and Engineering 2nd Semester, SY 2020–2021
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General Instructions: This test is worth 30 points. Answer all items. Work ALONE. If you
have questions, ask the teacher, not a classmate. You have until February 20, 2021 (10:30 am) to
submit your answers. Good luck!

For numbers 1 to 15, circle the letter of the choice that corresponds to the correct answer. Circling
none or multiple letters will make your answer wrong. Each item is worth 2 points.

1. Which of the following is NOT a valid statistical question?

A. How many internet searches do residents at Rudolph’s Retirement
Home perform each day?
B. What is the typical area of an elephant’s left ear?
C. Where does it typically rain more, Quezon City or Naga City?
D. How many red shirts are in Sam’s closet?

2. The Amazing company wanted to have firsthand information for their study.
Which of the following will NOT be considered as a source of information of
their study?
A. Information from PSA
B. Employment data in an agency
C. Article from a magazine
D. Membership data in an organization

3. A certain manufacturing company required its employees to indicate their edu-

cational attainment to be used for future study. On what level of measurement
does educational attainment fall?
A. Ratio B. Nominal C. Interval D. Ordinal
4. A local cabinet shop wants to determine the effect of adhesive brands on the
bonding of veneer to the side of cabinets. Four different brands of adhesive
were applied to glue veneer to random samples of cabinet ends. The treatments
were identical except for the brand of adhesive. Which of the following is the
dependent variable in this study?
A. brands of adhesive
B. bonding veneer
C. cabinet ends
D. four different brands

5. Students at a University were split into two groups and each received a different
text for a philosophy course. Once group received a traditional text book,
while the other received an interactive textbook on a tablet computer. After
the course, the final exam grades between the two groups of students were
compared. Which of the following is the independent variable in this study?
A. number of students C. tablet computer
B. final exam grade D. type of books used in class

6. The Pay It Forward Organization would like to know the level of readiness of
its members. Due to the lack of time, the organization wanted to get or gather
information from its 50 members only as a sample of the study. What process
of getting information are they going to do?
A. Survey B. Variable C. Census D. Parameters

7. Which of the following data does NOT belong to the group of sources of data?
A. Newspaper C. Government Agency
B. Magazine D. Journal

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 8. A large corporation wants to find out which benefits plan its employees would
prefer. Which procedure would be most likely to obtain a statistically unbiased
sample?
A. surveying a random sample of employees from a list of all employees
B. inviting all employees to indicate their choice by email
C. placing suggestion boxes at random locations in the company’s plant
and offices
D. assembling a group with one member from each department and record-
ing the preferences of these employees

9. Which method is most likely to produce a random sample of the members of

your class?
A. listing the first six students that come to mind
B. choosing the five oldest students in the class
C. writing the name of each student on separate pieces of paper then
drawing these slips from a hat
D. selecting the first six students to arrive in class

10. The number of words printed in each of 12 randomly selected story books of the
writer Jen Tan is listed as follows: 502, 213, 335, 197, 414, 469, 497, 367, 409,
297, 309, 414. What is the range of the sample set of data?
A. 6 B. 305 C. 414 D. 368.58

11. A manufacturer of contact lenses is studying the curvature of the lenses it sells.
In particular, the last 500 lenses sold had an average curvature of 0.5. What is
the population?
A. the 500 lenses
B. 0.5
C. the lenses sold today
D. all the lenses sold by the manufacturer

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12. A survey will be given to 100 students randomly selected from the freshmen
class at Wisconsin High School. What is the sample?
A. all freshmen at Wisconsin High School
B. all students at Wisconsin High School
C. the 100 selected students
D. all students at Wisconsin High School

13. A researcher is studying students in college in Texas. She takes a sample of 400
students from 10 colleges. The average age of all college students in Texas is
A. a statistic. C. the median.
B. a parameter. D. a population.

14. A researcher plans to get 588 sample units from a population N using a 4%
margin of error. What is the value of the population N ?
A. 302.97 B. 9932 C. 239.8 D. 1042

15. To survey the opinions of the students at a high school, a researcher plans to
select every twenty-fifth student entering the school in the morning. Assuming
there are no absences, will this result in a simple random sample of students
attending your school?
A. Yes, because every student has the same chance of being selected.
B. Yes, but only if there is only a single entrance to the school.
C. No, because not every sample of the intended size has an equal chance
of being selected.
D. Yes, because this is an example of systematic sampling, which is a
special case of random sampling.

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