SUMMATIVE TEST IN STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

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

2. How many ways are there in tossing two coins once?

a. 4 b. 3 c. 2 d. 1

3. It is a numerical quantity that is assigned to the outcome of an experiment.

a. random variable b. variable c. probability d. probability distribution

4. Which formula gives the probability distribution shown by the table?

X 3 4 5
P(X) 1/3 1/4 1/5
a. P(X) = X b. P(X) = 1/X c. P(X) = X/3 d. P(X) = X/5

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

a. Length of wire ropes
b. Number of soldiers in the troop
c. Amount of paint used in repainting the building
d. Voltage of car batteries

6. Which of the following values is not the value of the probability of the random variable?
a. 1.05 b. 0.45 c. 0.3 d. 0.15

7. A variable whose value could be a finite and countable number is a

a. Continuous variable
b. Qualitative variable
c. Discrete variable
d. Quantitative variable

8. It is the central or average of its corresponding probability mass function.

a. mean b. variance c. standard deviation d. probability

9. What is the mean outcome if a pair of die is rolled once?

a. 1.5 b. 2.5 c. 3.5 d. 4.5

10. Determine the Mean or Expected Value of random variable below.

Tile Number of times picked

1 3
15
2 5
15
3 6
15
4 1
15

a. 2.56 b. 2.78 c. 2.33 d. 2.45

11. Find the mean of the probability distribution involving the random variable X that gives the number of heads that appear after
tossing four coins once.
 a. 4 b. 2 c. 3 d. 1

12. The probabilities that a printer produces 0,1,2, and 3 misprints are 42%, 28%, 18%, and 12% respectively. What is the mean value
of the random variable?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4

13. These are two values that describe how scattered or spread out the scores are from the mean value of the random variable.
a. variance and standard deviation
b. mean and probability distribution
c. probability and statistics
d. mean and variance

14. The random variable X, representing the number of nuts in a chocolate bar has the following probability distribution. What is the
mean?

Y 0 1 2 3 4
P(y) 1 3 3 2 1
10 10 10 10 10
a. 1.5 b. 1.3 c. 1.7 d. 1.9

15. What is another name for normal distribution?

a. Gaussian distribution
b. Poisson distribution
c. Bernoulli’s distribution
d. Probability distribution

16. What marks the change in the curve’s concavity?

a. curve
b. inflection points
c. mean
d. standard deviation

17. Which value is found at the center of the normal curve?

a. mean b. mode c. median d. all of the above

18. What percent of the area under a normal curve is within 2 standard deviations?
a. 68.3% b. 95.4% c. 99.7% d. 100%

19. What percent of the area under a normal curve is within 3 standard deviations?
a. 68.3% b. 95.4% c. 99.7% d. 100%

20. Which of the following does not describe a normal curve?

a. asymptotic b. bell-shaped c. discrete d. symmetrical about the mean

21. What is the area if the z - score given is -1.83?

a. 0.0344 b. 0.0336 c. 0.0329 d. 0.0322

22. A random variable X has a mean of 4 and a standard deviation of 2. What is the corresponding z-score for x = 7?
a. 0.5 b. 1.0 c. 1.5 d. 2

23. Which of the following describes the standard normal distribution?

a. has a mean of zero (0) and a standard deviation of 1.
b. has a mean of 1 and a variance of zero (0).
c. has an area equal to 0.5.
d. cannot be used to approximate discrete probability distributions.

24. What is the value of 67th percentile in a standard normal distribution?

 a. -0.43 b. -0.44 c. 0.43 d. 0.44

25. When the probability you are looking at is not in the z-table, how will you find its z-score?
a. Randomly choose any probability from the z-table.
b. Look for another z-table, maybe it is in that new z-table.
c. Choose the closest probability
d. Do not answer the problem.

26. What is the value of the 82nd percentile?

a. z=0.92 b. z=0.715 c. z=0.515 d. z=0.315

27. Which of the following statistics always corresponds to the 75th percentile in a distribution?
a. 3rd decile b. 3rd quartile c. 7th decile d. 7th quartile

28. Given that X is normally distributed with µ=85 and σ=6. Find the z-score when x=97.
a. z=1 b. z=2 c. z=3 d. z=4

29. Which of the following is the curve symmetrical to?

a. mean b. variance c. area d. standard deviation

30. Assuming that the heights of college male students are normally distributed with a mean of 69 inches and standard deviation of 3
inches. If a student is chosen at random, what is the probability that his height is less than 65 inches?
a. 0.0918 b. 0.3707 c. 0.9082 d. 0.9991