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

A. the number of students enrolled in STEM C

B. the average weight of KCNHS athletes
C. the time spent in social media
D. volume of water

2. If three coins are tossed, what is the possible value of the random
variable for the number of heads?

3. How many possible outcomes if three coins are tossed?

A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8

4. Which of the following are the correct values of the random variable Y(the
number of tails)?
A. 0 B. 0, 1 C. 0, 1, 2 D. 0, 1, 2, 3

5. What is the probability of getting three tails?

A. 1/8 B. 1/4 C. 3/8 D.
1/2
6. Given the probability distribution below, find the P(X≤6).
X 5 6 7
P(X) 1/3 1/8 13/24

7. Find the expected value of X in the given probability distribution in #6.

8. Which of the given values can serve as the values of a probability

distribution of the random variable X that can take only the values 1, 2
and 3?
A. P(1) = 0.08, P(2) = 0.12, P(3) = 1.03 C. P(1) = 0.42, P(2)
= 0.31, P(3) =
0.39
10 1 12 9
B. P(1) = , P(2) = , P(3) = D. P(1) = , P(2)
33 3 33 14
-1
= , P(3) =
14
6
14

For items 9–12, refer to the given discrete probability distribution table
below.
X 1 2 3 4 5
P(x) 0.11 0.24 0.3 0.12 ?
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9. Find P(x=5).

10.. What is the mean of the probability distribution?

11. What is the variance of the probability distribution?

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

13.Mike tosses an unbiased coin. She receives P60 if a head appears and
pays P30 if a tail appears. Find the expected value of his gain?

_____ 20. Given a normal curve at the right, find the area of the shaded
region.

_____ 21. Find the area to the right of z = 1.15

_____ 22. Solve for the proportion of the area between z = – 0.16 and z =
2.01.

_____ 23. Find the z – score of Mitch if she scores 88 in a probability test
with an average of 80 and the standard deviation of 20 given that the
scores are normally distributed,

For items 24–26, In a STEM qualifying examination, the average score is 55

with a standard deviation of 18. Suppose the scores are
normally distributed and represented by the variable x.

_____ 24. What is the standard score of an examinee who got a score of 42?

_____ 25. Find the probability that a score picked is from 50 to 65.

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_____ 26. What is the percentage of the takers who scored more than 65?
_____ 27. Which of the following is a random sampling technique in which
the population is subdivided into groups and samples are selected
from each group?

A. area or cluster B. simple C. stratified D.

systematic

For items 29–30, The scores of individual students on a national

achievement test have a normal distribution with mean 20.8 and
a standard deviation of 1.9. Assume that the population is
infinite (with replacement) and suppose 84 students took the
test with the same distribution as the national scores.

_____ 29. Determine the mean of the sampling distribution of means.

A. 10.68 B. 20.8 C. 22.7 D. 84

_____ 30. Determine the variance of the sampling distribution of means.

A. 0.04 B. 0.08 C. 1.07 D. 1.24

POINT ESTIMATION
t-distribution
_____ 31.It is the true population where the members of the sample are
expected to be found?

α
32. Given the confidence level of 90%, what is the value of ?
2

_____ 33. Given the confidence level of 90%, what is the value of z α ?
2

_____ 34. In t-distribution, find the degree of

freedom if n = 21.

_____ 35. In the figure at the right, find the value of

t1 if the shaded area on the left of -t1 is 0.10 and n=21.
A. -1.325 B. 1.303 C. 1.323 D. 1.325

For items36–37, The mean age of a random sample of 28 trainees is 16

years and the standard deviation is 2.4 years. The sample comes
from a normally distributed population. Use a=0.01.”
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_____ 38. Calculate the standard error E.

_____ 39. Find the interval estimate of the population mean.

_____ 40. In a random sample of 30 teachers in KCNHS, 12 of them

∧

are Masters degree graduates. Find the sample proportion p.

_____ 41.The confidence interval of the population proportion

Two hundred randomly selected workers were asked whether

they believed that the country’s economy will improve under
the new president. One hundred twenty of them said yes.
Construct a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of
workers who believed that the economy will improve?

_____ 42. Given the correct confidence interval in #41, what is the
upper confidence limit?

_____ 43. Find the length of the confidence interval: (12.17, 22.27).
_____ 44. Find the minimum sample size required to estimate an
unknown population mean if E = 42, confidence level is 95%
and population standard deviation is 140.

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