Archdiocese of Tugugegarao

SAN VICENTE INSTITUTE

TUGUEGARAO ARCHDIOCESAN OF SOLANA
SCHOOL SYSTEM 204 Bonifacio St., Centro, Solana
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MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

(11 - ABM, STEM, HUMSS SET A & B)
Senior High School Department
School Year 2019- 2020
Name: Date: ________________ Score: ________
Grade & Strand: ____ Proctor: _______________________________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Directions: Choose the letter that corresponds to the correct answer. Circle the letter that corresponds to
your answer. (ERASURE means WRONG)

1. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?

a. The average amount of electricity consumed c. The average weight of female
b. The number of patients in a hospital d. The amount of paint used in repainting a building

2. Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then ticket is drawn at random. What is the probability
that the ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5?
1 3
a. 2 c. 5
8 9
b. d.
20 20

3. It is a measure of spread for a distribution of a random variable that determines the degree to which
the values of random variable differ from the expected value.
a. Mean c. Variance
b. Standard Deviation d. Discrete Random Variable

4. Which of the following random variable is not continuous?

a. Amount of gasoline in a car c. Lifetime of an AAA battery
b. Time it takes to commute to work d. Number of goals scored by a hockey team

5. It is a random variable where we can take any value in an interval.

a. Random Variable c. Discrete Random Variable
b. Continuous Random Variable d. Probability Distribution

6. Is defines as the probability distribution of a random variable “X” tells what the possible values of “X”
are and how probabilities are assigned to those values.
a. Random Variable c. Discrete Random Variable
b. Continuous Random Variable d. Probability of an Event

7. If two coins are tossed, which is not a possible value of the random variable for the number of heads?
a. 0 c. 2
b. 1 d. 3

8. It is a function that associates a real number with each element in the sample space.
a. Probability of an Event c. Continuous Random Variable
b. Random Variable d. Discrete Random Variable
9. It consists of the values a random variable can assume and the corresponding probabilities of the
values.
a. Probability of an Event c. Discrete Random Variable
b. Continuous Random Variable d. Probability Distribution

10. It is the measure of the chance that the vent will occur as a result of an experiment.
a. Probability of an Event c. Discrete Random Variable
b. Continuous Random Variable d. Probability Distribution

11. What is the probability of getting at most 3 heads in tossing 4 coins?

a. 4/16 c. 6/16
b. 5/16 d. 7/16

12. What is the probability of getting a sum of 7 in rolling a dice?

a. 1/9 c. 1/12
b. 1/6 d. 1/18

For numbers 12 – 14, refer to the probability distribution below.

X 0 1 2 3
P(X) 1/8 3/8 3/8 1/8

13. What is the mean of the probability distribution?

a. 1.5 c. 1.6
b. 1.2 d. 0.50

14. What is the variance of the probability distribution?

a. 0.75 c. 1.25
b. 1.00 d. 0.50

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

a. 1.00 c. 1.12
b. 0.87 d. 0.71

16. It is use of branching connecting lines to represent a certain relationship between events.
a. Probability Distribution c. Tree Diagram
b. Sample Space d. Outcome

17. It is the set of all possible outcome of a random experiment.

a. Sample c. Sample Space
b. Sample Point d. Total Outcome

18. It is the central value of average of its corresponding probability mass function.
a. Variance c. Mean
b. Standard deviation d. Median

19. What is the probability of any event that the event will occur?
a. 0 c. 1
b. .5 d. 2
 20. What is the probability of rolling 3 dice?
a. 36 c. 1296
b. 216 d. 11296

II. IDENTIFICATION
Directions: Identify whether the given variable is DISCRETE or CONTINUOUS. Write your answer
before the number. (ERASURE means WRONG)

1. The number of books in the library

2. The distance your car travels on a tank of gas
3. The lifetime in hours of 15 flashlights
4. The number of tourists each day in museum
5. The capacity of water dams in a region
6. The weight of Grade 1 pupils
7. Time required to perform a job
8. The Friday Night attendance at a cinema
9. Time until a bulb goes out
10. Volume of soft drink in a 12 – ounce can
11. The number of patients a doctor sees in one day
12. The amount of sugar in an orange
13. The length of each song on the latest Opm Album.
14. The temperature of the outside as you are answering this exam
15. Distance between two points

III. PROBLEM SOLVING

Directions: Compute the following probability distribution.

1. Compute the average and spread of heads when we tossed a 3 coins. Show your tree diagram (10
points)
2. When 5 coins are tossed, the probability distribution for the random variable “X” representing the
number of tails that occur. Compute the variance and standard deviation of the probability distribution.
Construct your tree diagram. (15 points)
3. In a random variable, deck of cards is shuffled. What is the probability of getting ace? Show your tree
diagram. (10 points)
4. The daily demand for copies of a movie magazine at a variety store has the probability distribution as
follows:
Compute the Mean, Variance, and Standard Deviation. (10 points)
Number of Probability
Copies X P(X)
0 0.06
1 0.14
2 0.16
3 0.14
4 0.12
5 0.10
6 0.08
7 0.07
8 0.06
9 0.04
10 0.03
5. In rolling three dice of a random variable, what is the probability of getting an even number? (10
points)

THANK YOU AND GODBLESS!!

Prepared by: JEREMY A. TABORICO