SUMMATIVE TEST ON STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Read the questions carefully and choose the best answer. Write the answers on your answer sheet.
1. Which word refers to the totality of subjects under consideration?
A. Parameter B. Population C. Sample D. Statistic
2. Which of the following refers to a portion taken from the total number of subjects?
A. Parameter B. Population C. Sample D. Statistic
3. What do we call the descriptive measures computed from the population?
A. Parameter B. Population C. Sample D. Statistic
4. Which of the following refers to the calculated value from a sample?
A. Parameter B. Population C. Sample D. Statistic
5. Which sampling technique is illustrated when each member of the population is given equal chance to be chosen as part
of the sample?
A. Random Variable B. Random Sampling
C. Sampling Distribution D. Sample Statistic
6. Which of the following terms is the same as the word average?
A. Mean B. Variance C. Sample Size D. Standard Deviation
7. How many different samples of size n = 3 can be selected from a population with the size N = 4?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
8. What do we call the difference between the sample mean and the population mean?
A. Correction Factor B. Probability Distribution
C. Sampling Error D. Sampling Distribution
9. A group of modules has the following number of pages: 12, 16, 20, 24 and 28. Consider samples of size 3 that can be
drawn from this population. The following could possibly be a sample EXCEPT ONE. Which is the exception?
A. 12, 16, 20 B. 16, 20, 28 C. 20, 24, 28 D. 16, 20, 22
10. A jar contains the number 1, 3 and 5. If you got samples of size 2 from this population and compute the mean of each
sample, what are the sample means that you will be able to get?
A. 0, 1, 2 B. 1, 2, 3 C. 2, 3, 4 D. 3, 4, 5
11. Which is the correct probability notation for the area between z = -2 and z = -1.5?
A. P(-2 < z < -1.5) B. P(-1.5 < z < -2) C. P(z < -1.5 + -2) D. P(-2 - 1.5 < z)
12. What is the area between z = -2 and z = -1.5?
A. 0.0440 B. 0.4332 C. 0.4772 D. 0.5
13. Which best describes the data below?

A. The scores are lower than the mean.

B. The scores are higher than the mean.
C. The scores could be equal or lower than the mean.
D. The scores could be equal or higher than the mean.

14. 47 out of the 100 athletes were checked on their height. The variance of their height is 3.4cm. 47 athletes are
considered a _________________.
A. sample B. population C. parameter D. statistic
15. What descriptive measure shall be computed on item 14?
 A. sample B. population C. parameter D. statistic
II. SOLVING
1. Compute the probabilities using the standard normal distribution table.
a. Less than 0.68
b. More than 1.38
c. Between 1.8 and 2.95
2. Find the given percentile of the normal curve.
a. P85
b. P48
c. On a recent math test, the mean score was 75 and the standard deviation is 5. What is the percentile rank of
the score 83?
3. a. A population consists of the numbers 1,2,3,5,7,9. Take three numbers as samples from the population. Present
the frequency distribution of all the possible samples taken.