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28. If a researcher would like to determine the effect of height on weight, then
height is called a (an) …….. variable.
(A) dependent (B) outcome (C) confounding (D) independent
29. Except for rounding error, relative frequencies should add up to what sum?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 50 (D) 100
30. If the mean of 10 values is 50, then the sum of the values is ……..
(A) 400 (B) 600 (C) 450 (D) 500
n = 6 , ∑ x = 24 , ∑ y = 36 , ∑ xy = 124 , ∑ x2 = 106
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(A) there is no relationship (B) positive (C) negative (D) curvelinear
34. The correlation coefficient between the amount of fats كمية الدھونwhich a person
eats and his or her weight may be:
(A) close to -1 (B) close to 2 (C) close to 1 (D) 0
35. An emergency service center wishes to see whether a relationship between the
outside temperature (x) and the number of emergency calls (y) exists.
The data are shown here:
n = 5 ∑ x = 9 ∑ y = 17 ∑ xy = 28 ∑ x2 = 23 ∑y2 = 71
The equation of the regression line between a person's age in years (x) and the number
of hours he exercises per week (y) is given by: y' = 25 – 0.4 x.
Use the above equation to answer the questions (36-37).
36. The correct statement that represents the relationship between (x) and (y) is:
(A) When the number of hours he exercises increases by 1 hour, his age increases
by 0.4 years.
(B) When the number of hours he exercises decreases by 1 hour, his age
decreases by 25 on average.
(C) When a person's age increases by 1 year, the number of hours he
exercises decreases by 0.4 on average.
(D) When a persons's age Increases by 1 year, the number of hours he
exercises increases by 0.4 on average.
37. Predict the number of hours a person exercises per week when his age is 50 years.
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 3 (D) 1.5
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In the study of the relationship between the number of absences (x) and the final
grade (y) of 6 students in the statistics class, the data are shown as follows.
40. If the correlation coefficient (r) equals 0.6, then the relationship can be described
as ……..
(A) weak and linear. (B) moderate and nonlinear.
(C) positive, strong and nonlinear. (D) positive, moderate and linear.
41. As x increase, y decrease and vice versa. Then, the relationship between the two
variables, x and y, can be described as:
(A) positive relationship (B) negative relationship
(C) no relationship (D) (A) and (B)
43. If the value of the correlation coefficient equals 0.9, then the type of the
relationship is:
(A) strong negative (C) weak positive
(B) strong positive (D) moderate negative
47. Two fair dice are rolled. What is the probability of getting a sum of 3?
(A) 5/18 (B) 2/9 (C) 5/36 (D) 1/18
51. A box contains 2 black balls and 3 red balls. One ball is randomly selected. Find
the probability of obtaining a black ball.
(A) 3/5 (B) 2/5 (C) 3/10 (D) 4/5
55. The probability of selecting a biology major, given that the student selected is
a female is ……..
(A) 1/2 (B) 3/10 (C) 1/3 (D) 1/4
56. The mean of the number of spots that appear when a die is tossed is ……..
(A) 2.5 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 3.5
57. Which of the following probability values would complete the following
probability distribution?
x 0 1 2 3
P(x) 1/8 3/8 k 1/4
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(A) 1/8 (B) 3/8 (C) 1/4 (D) 1/2
Let X denote the number of accidents that occur in a city during a week. The
following table lists the probability distribution of X.
Number of accidents 3 4 5 6
Probability P(x) 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2
60. A survey found that 2 out of 5 students say that they like statistics course. If 3
students are selected at random, find the probability that exactly one student
would have liked the statistics course.
(A) 0.525 (B) 0.455 (C) 0.432 (D) 0.345
61. If 20% of T.V.s are defective معيبة, the mean and standard deviation of the
number of defective T.V.s for a sample of 100 T.V.s are …….. and ……..,
respectively.
(A) 20 and 4 (B) 25 and 4 (C) 20 and 16 (D) 25 and 16
62. If a player rolls one die and gets 6, he wins $120. The cost to play the game is $15.
What is the expected value of his gain?
(A) $6 (B) $8 (C) $5 (D) $3
63. If a player draws a card from an ordinary deck and gets 10, he wins $104. If he
gets a picture, he looses $26. What is the expected value of his gain?
(A) $4 (B) $2 (C) $6 (D) $8
64. How many different 2-digit numbers can be formed from the digits in the
number 235?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 3
65. How many different tests can be made from a test bank of 5 questions if the test
consists of 4 questions?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 3 (D) 5
Use the following to answer Questions (66-70):
The probability that Student A will pass the statistics exam is 0.8, and the probability
that student B will pass the same exam is 0.6. Find the following probabilities:
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66. Both students (A and B) will pass the exam.
(A) 0.16 (B) 0.72 (C) 0.80 (D) 0.48
68. Student A will pass the exam and Student B will fail the exam.
(A) 0.27 (B) 0.07 (C) 0.63 (D) 0.32
71. If X is a discrete random variable with ∑[x2P(x)] = 30 and E(x) = 5. The variance
of the probability distribution of X is ……..
(A) 2 (B) 1.5 (C) 3 (D) 5
Two dice, A and B, are rolled. Let X represents the sum of the two numbers of spots
that will appear. Answer questions (72-74).
72. What is the probability of X = 5 is?
(A) 4/36 (B) 1/12 (C) 3/18 (D) 5/6
75. A coin is rolled three times, the probability of getting two tails is ……..
(A) 1/2 (B) 3/4 (C) 5/8 (D) 3/8
76. A die is rolled three times, the probability of getting a 3 twice is ……..
(A) 5/72 (B) 1/24 (C) 5/36 (D) 1/18
Find the area under the standard normal curve for questions (82) and (83).
82. To the left of z = 1.96.
(A) 0.95 (B) 0.0975 (C) 0.0925 (D) 0.975
85. Approximately what percentage of normally distributed data values will fall within
1 standard deviation above or below the mean?
(A) 95% (B) 68% (C) 99.7% (D) 99%
87. The standard deviation of all possible sample means equals ……….
(A) The population standard deviation.
(B) The population standard deviation divided by the population mean
(C) The square root of the population standard deviation.
(D) The population standard deviation divided by the square root of
the
sample size.
The time T1 to travel from A to B through city centre (road R1) is normally distributed
with a mean of 20 minutes and a standard deviation of 5 minutes. The time T2 to travel
from A to B through a new ring road (road R2) is normally distributed with a mean of
15 minutes and a standard deviation of 8 minutes. You have 17 minutes to travel from
A to B on an important appointment. Using this information, solve questions (92 to
94).
92. P(T1 > 17)
(A) 0.2743 (B) 0.2347 (C) 0.4723 (D) 0.4327
95. The total area under the standard normal curve is ……..
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 0.5 (D) 2
96. Approximately what percentage of normally distributed data values will fall
within 2 standard deviation above or below the mean?
(A) 95% (B) 68% (C) 99.7% (D) 99%
The time (X) needed to complete a final examination in a particular college course is
normally distributed with a mean of 60 minutes and a standard deviation of 10
minutes.
Answer questions (98 to 100).
98. What is the probability of completing the exam in less than 70 minutes?
(A) 0.1587 (B) 0.9655 (C) 0.8413 (D) 0.0345
99. What is the probability that a student will complete the exam in more than 75
minutes but less than 80 minutes?
(A) 0.9965 (B) 0.0404 (C) 0.9956 (D) 0.0044
100. The best point estimate of the population mean is the …….
(A) sample mean. (B) sample median.
(C) sample mode. (D) sample midrange.
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A research firm conducted a survey to determine the mean amount smokers spend on
cigarettes during a day. A sample of 100 smokers revealed that the sample mean is $5
and sample standard deviation is $2. Assume that the sample was drawn from a
normal population.
Answer questions (101-104).
101. The point estimate of the population mean is ……..
(A) 2 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 100
102. The lower limit of the 95% confidence interval for the population mean is ……..
(A) 4.5 (B) 5.5 (C) 4.6 (D) 5.6
103. The upper limit of the 95% confidence interval for the population mean is ……..
(A) 5.2 (B) 5.5 (C) 6.2 (D) 5.4
104. The width of the 95% confidence interval for the population mean is ……
(A) 0.8 (B) 1 (C) 1.2 (D) 0.6
If one wishes to test the claim that the mean of the population is 50.
Answer questions (107-108).
107. The appropriate null hypothesis is ……..
(A) µ ≠ 50 (B) µ ≥ 50 (C) µ ≤ 50 (D) µ = 50
A researcher wishes to test the claim that the average productivity of items produced
per hour by a machine is 50 units per hour. This machine was observed for 64 hours,
and the average productivity of items produced per hour and the standard deviation
were found to be 53 and 10, respectively.
To test the validity of this claim, and using α = 0.05, Answer questions (109-112).
109. The null and alternative hypotheses are ……..
(A) (B) (C) (D)
H0: µ = 50 H0: µ = 52 H0: µ = 52 H0: µ = 50
H1: µ ≠ 52 H1: µ ≠ 50 H1: µ ≠ 50 H1: µ ≠ 50
110. The critical value of the test statistic is …….
(A) 1.5 (B) 2 (C) 2.5 (D) 3
117. The value of the third quartile (Q3) الرﱡ بيع الثالثis ……...
(A) 3.15 (B) 7 (C) 3 (D) 3.5
(A) mean > median > mode (C) mean < median < mode
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(B) mean = median = mode (D) mean > mode < median
135.If the total number of certain values is 100 with mean of 5 what is the number of
these vales?
(A) 20 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 11
136. If a variable can take any value between 0 and 15, then this variable is called
a …….. variable.
(A) discrete منفصـــــل (C) quantitative and discrete كمي ومنفصل
(B) continuous متصل (D) qualitative نوعي
137. If the distribution of a given data is symmetric, then the relationship between the
mean, median, and the mode is
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(A) mean < median < mode (C) mean > median > mode
(B) mean = median = mode (D) median ≠ mean ≠ mode
x 0 1 2 3
P(x) 1/8 3/8 k 1/4
- Let X denote the number of accidents that occur in a city during a week. The
following table lists the probability distribution of X.
Number of accidents 3 4 5 6
Probability P(x) 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2
140. P( x ≤ 4) = ........
142. E (2 x − 3) = ........
A student is randomly selected, use the above table to answer questions (8-12)
149. The probability of selecting a, Male given that the student selected have a English
major P ( Eng Male ) =
150. The probability of selecting a biology major, given that the student selected is a
female is P ( Bio Female ) =
(A) 3/25 (B) 3/10 (C) 1/3 (D) 1/4
151. If the correlation coefficient (r) equals 0.5, then the relationship can be described
as ……..
(A) weak. (B) moderate
(C) positive, strong. (D) positive, moderate
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152. As x increase, y decrease and vice versa. Then, the relationship between the
two variables, x and y, can be described as:
(A) positive relationship (B) negative relationship
(C) no relationship (D) (A) and (B)
A card is drawn from an ordinary deck.
Answer questions (15-17).
153. What is the probability of getting a 5 ?
(A) 5/52 (B) 2/26 (C) 3/26 (D) 5/13
154. What is the probability of getting a 10 or a heart?
(A) 3/13 (B) 1/52 (C) 17/52 (D) 4/13
155. What is the probability of getting a picture card?
(A) 3/13 (B) 5/26 (C) 1/13 (D) 6/13
156. What is the probability of getting a 6 and Black ?
(A) 2/52 (B) 2/26 (C) 3/26 (D) 5/13
In the study of the relationship between the number of absences (x) and the final
grade (y) of (6) students in the statistics class, the data are shown as follows.
∑ x = 42 , ∑ y = 470 , ∑ xy = 3143 , ∑ x2 = 354 , ∑y2 = 37358
Answer the following two questions (18 -19)
157. The slope of the regression line is ………
(A) 3.45 (B) -2.45 (C) -3.45 (D) 2.45
158. The value of the correlation coefficient is …….
(A) -0.82 (B) 1 (C) 0.92 (D) 0.82
159. What is the range of values for the correlation coefficient?
(A) -1 to 2 (B) -1 to 1 (C) -2 to 1 (D) -2 to 2
160. If the value of the correlation coefficient equals 0.22, then the type of the
relationship is:
(A) strong negative (C) weak positive
(B) strong positive (D) moderate negative
161. A researcher wants to determine if there is a linear relationship between the
number of hours a person goes without sleep (x) and the number of mistakes he
makes on a simple test (y). The following data are recorded.
n = 6 , ∑ x = 24 , ∑ y = 36 , ∑ xy = 124 , ∑ x2 = 106
The equation of the regression line is:
(A) y' = 2 – 14x (C) y' = 14 – 2x
(B) y' = -2 + 14x (D) y' = -14 + 2x
162. Determine the type of relationship shown in the figure below.
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(A) there is no relationship (B) positive (C) negative (D) curvelinear
163. An emergency service center wishes to see whether a relationship between the
outside temperature (x) and the number of emergency calls (y) exists.
The data are shown here:
n = 5 ∑ x = 9 ∑ y = 17 ∑ xy = 28 ∑ x2 = 23 ∑y2 = 71
Compute the value of the correlation coefficient.
(A) -0.274 (B) 0.247 (C) 0.274 (D) -0.275
164.As x increase and y increase,. Then, the relationship between the two
variables, x and y, can be described as:
(A) positive relationship (B) negative relationship
(C) no relationship (D) (A) and (B)
Answer questions (27-29).
165. What is the probability of getting a 4?
(A) 4/6 (B) 2/6 (C) 1/6 (D) 3/6
166. What is the probability of getting an even number?
(A) 1/6 (B) 3/6 (C) 4/6 (D) 2/6
167. What is the probability of getting a number greater than 3?
(A) 3/6 (B) 1 (C) 2/3 (D) 1/6
Answer questions (30-33).
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Use the following to answer Questions (34-37):
The probability that Student A will pass the statistics exam is 0.8, and the probability
that student B will pass the same exam is 0.6. Find the following probabilities:
172. Both students (A and B) will pass the exam.
(A) 0.16 (B) 0.08 (C) 0.80 (D) 0.48
173. The probability that the Student A will pass the exam or the Student B will pass
the exam.
(A) 0.98 (B) 0.48 (C) 0.08 (D) 0.92
174. Student A will pass the exam and Student B will fail the exam.
(A) 0.95 (B) 0.32 (C) 0.92 (D) 0.12
175. Both students (A and B) will fail the exam.
(A) 0.08 (B) 0.92 (C) 0.32 (D) 0.12
answer Questions (38-39):
176. The probability of getting two tails is ……..
(A) 1/4 (B) 3/4 (C) 5/8 (D) 3/8
177. The probability of getting at least one tails is ……..
(A) 1/4 (B) 3/4 (C) 5/8 (D) 3/8
178. A box contains 2 black balls and 3 red balls. One ball is randomly selected. Find
the probability of obtaining a black ball.
(A) 3/5 (B) 2/5 (C) 3/10 (D) 4/5
179. The correlation coefficient between the amount of fats كمية الدھونwhich a person
eats and his or her weight وزنهmay be:
(A) close to -1 (B) close to 2 (C) close to 1 (D) 0
If the equation of the regression line is:
y' = 14 – 2x
Answer questions (42- 44).
180. The slope (coefficient of regression) of the regression line is ………
(A) 2 (B) 14 (C) -2 (D) -14
181.The relationship between (x) and (y)
(A) positive relationship (B) negative relationship
(C) no relationship (D) (A) and (B)
182. The predicted value of y for x=2 is ……..
(A) 2 (B) 10 (C) -2 (D) 14
A box contains 3 black balls and 5 red balls. Two balls are randomly selected.
Answer questions (45-48). Find the following probabilities
183.The first is black and the second is red (with replacement).
(A) 20/56 (B) 9/64 (C) 15/56 (D) 15/64
184.The first is red and the second is black (without replacement).
(A) 20/56 (B) 9/64 (C) 15/56 (D) 15/64
185.The first is black and the second is black (with replacement).
(A) 20/56 (B) 9/64 (C) 15/56 (D) 15/64
186.The first is red and the second is red (without replacement).
(A) 20/56 (B) 9/64 (C) 15/56 (D) 15/64
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- Let X be a normally distributed random variable with a mean of 60 and
a standard deviation of 10. Find the probabilities for questions (1 to 5).
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200. The upper limit of the 95% confidence interval for the population mean is ……..
(A) 4.5 (B) 5.392 (C) 4.608 (D) 5.6
201. The width of the 95% confidence interval for the population mean is ……
(A) 0.847 (B) 5.392 (C) 4.608 (D) 0.784
202. The maximum error of estimate is ……..
(A) 0.847 (B) 0.392 (C) 4.608 (D) 0.784
-A researcher wishes to test the claim االدعاءthat the average productivity االنتاجيةof
items produced per hour by a machine is 50 units per hour وحدة لكل ساعة. This
machine was observed لوحظتfor 64 hours, and the average productivity متوسط
االنتاجيةof items produced per hour and the standard deviation were found to be 53
and 10, respectively.
To test the validity of this claim, and using α = 0.05, Answer questions (17-19).
203. The null and alternative hypotheses are ……..
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