Colon National High School

INTEGRATED SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Colon, Maasim, Sarangani Province
SHS ID: 341635
Third Quarter Examinations (Statistics and Probability)
Name Grade & Section
Subject Teacher Mariel G. Villanueva Score
DIRECTION. Write the letter of the correct answer in the space provided. You are allowed to use calculator.

_______1. Class of variable which can accept only values from set of
integers is classified as 4 1 −10 2
a. discrete random variable b. continuous random variable a. b. c. d.
27 9 27 27
c. posterior random variable d. interior random variable
The random variable x represents the number of cars per household in a
town of 1000 households.
_______2. Class of variable which can accept any value within upper
and lower limit is classified as Car 0 1 2 3 4
a. posterior random variable b. interior random variable Household 125 428 256 108 83
c. discrete random variable d. continuous random variable _______9. Find the probability of randomly selecting a household that
has at least one car.
_______3. Which one of these variables is a continuous random a. 0.50 b. 0.125 c. 0.875 d. 0.083
variable?
a. The time it takes a randomly selected student to complete an exam. _______10. Find the probability of randomly selecting a household that
b. The number of tattoos a randomly selected person has. has between one and three cars inclusive
c. The number of women taller than 68 inches in a random sample of 5 a. 0.125 b. 0.256 c. 0.208 d. 0.792
women.
d. The number of correct guesses on a multiple choice test. For items 11 to 17, refer to the situation below.
A sports analyst records the winners of NASCAR Winston Cup
_______4. Which does NOT belong to the group? races for a recent season. The random variable x represents the races
a. speed b. height won by a driver in one season.
c. IQ score d. weight
Wins 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
_______5. Which of the following random variables is NOT continuous? Drivers 12 2 0 2 0 0 1
a. Amount of gasoline in a car.
b. Time it takes to commute to work. a. 0 b. 0.06 c. 0.12 d. 0.71
c. Number of goals scored by a hockey team. _______11. P(1) _______12. P(2) _______13. P(3)
d. Lifetime of a AAA battery. _______14. P(4) _______15. P(5) _______16. P(6)
_______17. P(7)
_______6. The _______________ of a random variable is a graph,
table, or formula which tells what values the random variabe can take _______18. The expected value of a probability distribution
and the probability that it takes each of those values. a. Is the same as the random variable.
a. continuous distribution b. probability distribution b. Is another term for the mean.
c. discrete distribution d. hyper geometric distribution c. Is also called the variance.
d. Cannot be greater than 1.
_______7. Which of the following statements is true about a probability
distribution?
a. A probability distribution summarizes all possible experimental _______19. μ=ΣX⋅P ( X ) a. standard deviation
outcomes and their probability. 2
Σ ( X −μ )
b. A probability distribution equals one. σ 2=
c. A continuous probability distribution is used to summarize a discrete _______20. N b. variance

√
random variable. 2
d. A probability distribution shows the frequency of a random variable. Σ ( X−μ )
σ=
_______21. N c. mean
_______8. Which of the following illustrates a probability distribution?
_______22. Find the mean of the given probability distribution.
a. x 4 6 8 10
x P(x)
P(x) – 0.6 0.2 0.7 1.5 a.0 2.34 0.19
b.12.25 0.11
x 1 2 3 4 c.22.15 0.30
b. P(x) 1 1 1 1 d.32.44 0.06
4 4 4 4 4 0.34

x 7 8 9 10 _______23. Find the mean of the given probability distribution.

c. x P(x)
P(x) 1 2 1 1
a.0 1.56 0.05
3 3 6 6 b.22.85 0.17
c.41.69 0.43
d. x 3 5 7 9 d.62.44 0.35
P(x) 0.3 0.1 0.2 – 0.7
_______24. In a pizza takeout restaurant, the following probability
_______9. . Determine the probability distribution’s missing value distribution was obtained. The random variable x represents the number
of toppings for a large pizza. Find the mean and standard deviation.
x 0 1 2 3 4
P(x) 4 1 5 ? 5 a. x P(x) mean = 1.54, standard deviation = 1.30
27 27 9 27 b. 0 0.30 mean = 1.14, standard deviation = 1.04
c. 1 0.40 mean = 1.30, standard deviation = 2.38
2 0.20
3 0.06
4 0.04
d. mean = 1.30, standard deviation = 1.54 _______28. What is the area being represented by the shaded region?

_______25. Which of the following statement is NOT true of the normal

distribution?
a. the curve approaches the x – axis gradually on either side of the
mean
b. the curve is asymmetrical
c. the measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) are equal in
value a. to the right of z = – 1.37 b. to the left of z = 1.68
d. the curve is bell – shaped c. between z = – 1.37 and z = 1.68 d. between zero and z = 1.68

_______26. The total area represented under the curve of a normal _______29. In normal distribution, normal curve becomes more wider
distribution is equal to and more flatter because of
a. 0.25 b. 0.50 c. 0.75 d. 1 a. small value of variance b. large value of variance
c. large value of standard deviation d. small value of standard
_______27. Which of the following graph illustrates normal distribution? deviation
For items 30 to 34,
a. b. _______30. To the left of z = – 0.75 30 a. 0.2266
_______31. To the right of z = 0.29 31 b. 0.3859
_______32. Between z=– 0.96 and z=– 0.36 32 c. 0.1909
c. d. _______33. P(–1.23 < z <0) 33 d. 0.3906
_______34. P(–0.20 <z –1.56) e. 0.5199

_______40. The distribution of cholesterol levels in teenage boys is

approximately normal with μ = 170 and σ = 30 (Source: U.S. National
Center for Health Statistics). Levels above 200 warrant attention.
Find the probability that a teenage boy has a cholesterol level greater
than 225.
a.0.0606 b. 0.0336 c.0.0012 d. 0.0718

_______35. Assume that the heights of women are normally _______41. The lengths of pregnancies of humans are normally
distributed with a mean of 63.6 inches and a standard deviation of distributed with a mean of 268 days and a standard deviation of 15
2.5 inches. The cheerleaders for a local professional basketball team days. Find the probability of a pregnancy lasting less than 250 days.
must be between 65.5 and 68.0 inches. If a woman is randomly a. 0.0066 b. 0.0606 c. 0.1151 d. 0.1591
selected, what is the probability that her height is between 65.5 and
68.0 inches? _______42. Assume that the heights of American men are normally
a. 0.7881 b. 0.1844 c. 0.9608 d. 0.3112 distributed with a mean of 69.0 inches and a standard deviation of
2.8 inches. The U.S. Marine Corps requires that men have heights
_______36. Assume that the salaries of elementary school teachers between 64 and 78 inches. Find the percent of men meeting these
in the United States are normally distributed with a mean of $32,000 height requirements.
and a standard deviation of $3000. If a teacher is selected at a. 96.26% b. 31.12% c. 99.93% d. 3.67%
random, find the probability that he or she makes less than $28,000.
a. 0.0918 b. 0.9827 c. 0.2113 d. 0.9981 _______43. What term refers to the method or process of selecting
the members of a sample from a population?
_______37. Assume that blood pressure readings are normally a. randomizing b. sampling c. estimating d.
distributed with μ = 120 and σ = 8.  A blood pressure reading of 145 averaging
or more may require medical attention. What percent of people have
a blood pressure reading greater than 145? _______44. A small or portion of a population that represents their
a. 99.91% b. 0.09% c. 11.09% d. 6.06% characteristics or traits is known as
a. frequency b. mean c. sample d.
_______38. An airline knows from experience that the distribution of variance
the number of suitcases that get lost each week on a certain route is
approximately normal with μ = 15.5 and σ = 3.6. What is the _______45. The following are properties of the distribution of sample
probability that during a given week the airline will lose between 10 EXCEPT
and 20 suitcases? a. The mean of the sample means will be the same as the
a. 0.1056 b.0.4040 c. 0.3944 d. 0.8314 population mean.
b. The standard deviation of the sample means will be smaller than
_______39. IQ test scores are normally distributed with a mean of the standard deviation of the population
100 and a standard deviation of 12. An individualʹs IQ score is found c. The standard deviation of the sample means will be equal to the
to be 127. Find the z-score corresponding to this value. population standard deviation divided by the square root of the
a. 2.25 b.0.44 c. -0.44 d. -2.25 sample size.
d. none of these

End of the Test

Good Luck and God Bless

MARIEL G. VILLANUEVA
Subject Teacher

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