Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region XIII-CARAGA REGION
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SURIGAO DEL SUR
PANIKIAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Rosit st., Panikian, Carrascal, Surigao del Sur

SUMMATIVE TEST IN GENERAL MATHEMATICS 11

Directions. Read and answer the questions carefully then write your answer in ½ lengthwise
sheet of paper.

1. Which of the following is not a random variable?

a. The number of teachers in each school in the Philippines
b. The number of babies born on 2015 in the Philippines
c. The time it takes for each student to finish an exam.
d. The amount of water drank by each student every day.
2. Which of the following is a random variable whose possible values can be counted?
a. Discrete b. continuous c. discreet d. continues
3. Which of the following is a random variable whose possible values cannot be counted?
a. Continuous b. continues c. discreet d. discrete
4. Which of the following is the domain of a random variable?
a. set of real numbers c. sample space of the experiment
b. subset of the outcomes of the experiment d. set of whole numbers
5. Which of the following are examples of a discrete random variable?
a. scholars per class c. time spent studying per day
b. cars of each family d. tax paid by each employee
6. Which of the following are examples of continuous random variable?
a. age of the teachers in your school
b. pens per student
c. general weighted average of each student in your class
d. number of houses per square kilometer
7. Which of the following can be a representation of the values of a discrete random
variable?
a. (5, 10) b. {1, 2, 3, 4, . . .} c. {6} d. (7, ∞)
8. Which of the following statements about discrete random variables is false?
a. A discrete random variable may have only one possible value.
b. A discrete random variable can have more than 1000 possible values.
c. A discrete random variable can have infinite possible values.
d. A discrete random variable can take on negative values.
9. Identify which of the following qualifies as a discrete random variable.
a. shoe size b. number of siblings c. body weight d. water consumption
10. Which of the following statements is true about the probability of a random variable?
a. The probability of a random variable is greater than or equal to zero but less than or
equal to one.
b. The probability of a random variable is greater than or equal to zero.
c. The probability of a random variable is greater than zero but less than one.
 d. The probability of a random variable can be any number.
11. n an experiment of tossing three coins, how many elements are there in the sample space?
a. Eight b. six c. five d. four
x
12. Given P(x)= where x=1,2,3, what is the probability if x=2?
6
1 1 2 1
a. b. c. d.
3 2 3 4
13. Calculate the expected value of the random variable with the given probability
distribution.

x 15 30 45 60 75
P(x) 0.20 0.25 0.15 0.27 0.13
a. 44.5 b. 43.2 c. 47.6 d. 40.1
14. Calculate the expected value of the random variable with the given probability
distribution.
a. 67 b. 74 c. 93 d. 59
15. What is the symbol used for variance of a discrete random variable?
a. X b. ∑x c. σ d. σ2
16. What is a variance of a discrete random variable?
a. It is the difference between the sum of the product of the random variable and its
probability and the square of the mean.
b. It gives the expected outcome over repeated samples.
c. It is the difference between the sum of the products of the squares of a random variable
and the corresponding probabilities and the square of the mean.
d. It is the most frequent value observed in a random sample of observations of the random
variable.
17. What is the formula for the variance of any discrete random variable x?
a. σ2 = ∑ [x2⋅P(x)] − μ2
b. σ = [ ∑ x2⋅P(x)] −μ2
c. σ = √ [ ∑ x2⋅P(x)] −μ2
d. σ2= √ ∑ [x2⋅P(x)] −μ2
18. If the variance of a discrete random variable is four, what is its standard deviation?
a. 16 b. 4.02 c. 2 d. 1.5
19. What do you call a continuous random variable that follows a normal distribution?
a. Normal b. binomial c. discrete d. poisson
20. What determines the center of a normal curve?
a. Mean b. standard deviation c. range d. proportion
21. What determines the height and width of a normal curve?
a. Mean b. standard deviation c. range d. proportion
22. What is the mean and standard deviation of the normal distribution denoted by
N(10,0.5)?
a. It has a mean of 10 and standard deviation of 0.5.
b. It has a standard deviation of 10 and mean of 0.5.
c. It has a mean of 10 and a standard deviation that cannot be determined.
 d. It has a standard deviation of 0.5 and a mean that cannot be determined.
23. What percentage of the normal curve falls to the right of 0 in N(0,1)?
a. 0% b. 1% c. 50% d. 100%
24. What is the mean and standard deviation of the standard normal distribution?
a. mean = 0, standard deviation = 0
b. mean = 1, standard deviation = 1
c. mean = 0, standard deviation = 1
d. mean = 1, standard deviation = 0
25. What is the area of the entire region under the normal curve?
a. 0.1 b. 0.5 c. 1 d. 2

Prepared by:

MELVIN M. ABOLOC
Subject Teacher

Noted:

ROMNICK C. PORTILLANO
School Head