Department of Education

Schools Division of Tacloban City

LEYTE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Senior High School
Tacloban City
2nd Semester, SY: 2022-2023

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Quarter 4: Individual Activity No. 1
Name: _______________________________________________ Grade level & section: ______________
Directions: Answer the following problems. Write your final answers in two decimal places.

1. A study was conducted to determine the average salary of a government employee. With this, 81
government employees from different departments were invited as samples. It was known that the
mean salary of these sample is ₱ 24,000 with a standard deviation ₱ 1,000 . Construct a 95%
confidence interval (two-tailed) estimate for the average salary of all government employee.
Solutions:
Steps Solution

1. Determine the given.

2. Determine the confidence

coefficient using the confidence
level or alpha, α .

3. Identify the formula.

4. Substitute the values in the

formula and compute.

5. Compute the length of

confidence interval by
subtracting smaller value from
bigger value.

6. Write a conclusion.
 2. What is the appropriate sample size given a standard deviation of 9.6 , confidence interval of 97 % and
a margin of error or maximum allowable deviation of 4.5 ?
Solution:

3. To estimate the mean price of e-Books of senior high schools, with a standard deviation of ₱ 100 , how many e-
Books are needed to be selected as samples if we wanted to be 97 % confident that the sample mean of e-Books is
within ₱ 35 of the true population?

Prepared by:

OMAIRAH S. MALAWI, MAEd

Subject Teacher, Statistics and Probability