STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY REVIEW 10.

) What is the discrepancy between a sample statistic

and its population parameter?
1.) What is statistics?
A. Sampling Difference
A. Collection of data B. Sampling Error
B. Organization of data C. Sampling Increase
C. Analysis and interpretation of data D. All of these
D. All of these
11.) Random sampling can only occur if each element in
2.) What is descriptive statistics?
the population has _______ chance of selection in the
A. Collection and presentation of data sample.
B. Analysis and Interpretation of data
A. Equal
C. Both A and B
B. Independent
D. None of these
C. Constant
3.) Which of the following statements is an example of D. Both a and b
inferential statistics?
12.) What is a sampling technique in which members of
A. Mean student grade of a class is 88 the population are listed and samples are selected at
B. The three treatments are significantly different intervals called sample intervals?
with each other
C. The printer has an average printing time of 1.34 A. Simple Random Sampling
seconds with a standard deviation of 0.67 seconds B. Systematic Sampling
D. All of these C. Convenience Sampling
D. Cluster Sampling
4.) What is the attribute or characteristic of interest
13.) What type of sampling is sometimes referred to as
measurable on each and every unit of the universe?
area sampling and applied on a geographical basis?
A. Value
B. Variable A. Simple Random Sampling
C. Parameter B. Systematic Sampling
D. Statistic C. Convenience Sampling
D. Cluster Sampling
5.) What is the set of all possible values of the variable?
14.) A company conducting a survey chooses customers
A. Population to try their new soft drink. Whoever comes to their stall
B. Variable will be a respondent for the survey. What type of
C. Parameter sampling is used?
D. Statistic
A. Simple Random Sampling
6.) What is the numerical measurement which describes
B. Systematic Sampling
the sample? C. Convenience Sampling
A. Population D. Cluster Sampling
B. Variable 15.) How many samples must a researcher take if the
C. Parameter total population in the study is 4500 and the margin of
D. Statistic error is 5%?
7.) What is the type of variable with finite or countable
A. 225
number of possible values?
B. 367
A. Dependent Variable C. 450
B. Independent Variable D. 265
C. Discrete Variable 16.) Which of the following is a primary data?
D. Continuous Variable
A. Weight of tomatoes from the farm records
8.) Which of the following is a continuous variable?
B. Weight of each tomato measured
A. Eye Color of students C. Both A and B
B. Number of students D. None of these
C. Weight of Students 17.) What level of measurement of data in which the
D. All of these distance between the values is known and the zero point
9.) What is the method of selecting a small section of a is arbitrary?
larger group in order to estimate the characteristics of
A. Nominal
the entire group?
B. Ordinal
A. Regression C. Interval
B. Selection D. Ratio
C. Sampling 18.) Which of the following belongs to the nominal level
D. Randomizing of measurement of data?
 A. Satisfactory Rating 24.) The mean weight of a grade 11 student is 52.2 kg
B. Temperature in Celsius with a standard deviation of 2.1 kg. If the weights are
C. Temperature in Rankine normally distributed, what percentage of the weights fall
D. Bank Account Number between 48 kg and 58.5 kg?
19.) The performance of teachers were rated from 1-5
A. 99.85%
with 5 being the highest. The data gathered from this B. 68.3%
belongs to what level of measurement of data? C. 99.7%
A. Nominal D. 97.55%
B. Ordinal 25.) The mean age of a flight attendant of PAL is 40 years
C. Interval old, with a standard deviation of 8. What percent of the
D. Ratio data set lies between 20 and 60?
20.) The research involves measuring the weekly height of
A. 75%
the plants from week 1 to week 8. What level of B. 84%
measurement of data does the height of plants belong? C. 99.85%
A. Nominal D. 50%
B. Ordinal 26.) The mean height of chili plant is 80 cm, with a
C. Interval standard deviation of 10 cm. Between which two heights
D. Ratio must this mean lie to represent 36% of the data set?
21.) Which of the following illustrates the shape of a
A. 70 cm to 90 cm
normal distribution? B. 67.5 cm to 92.5 cm
A. C. 60.5 cm to 99.5 cm
D. 75 cm to 85 cm
27.) Which of the following is used to measure dispersion
of a data set?

A. Standard Deviation
B. B. Mean
C. Median
D. Quartiles
28.) 10 students took an exam and listed below are their
scores. 69, 77,77,77, 84,85,85,87,92,98
What is the mean score of the students?
C.
A. 91.2
B. 84.5
C. 77
D. 83.1
29.) Maria aims to get an average of 90 to be on the
D. None of these honor roll this semester. Her grades in her 5 subjects out
22.) Which of the following is true about the normal of 6 were 89, 92, 93, 85, and 87. What should be her
distribution? grade in her sixth subject to reach her goal?

A. As data value increases, the occurrence of the A. 89.2

data decreases B. 94
B. As data value increases, the occurrence of the C. 92
data also increases D. 90
C. Data far from the mean are more frequent to 30.) Listed are the scores of the students in a test and the
occur number of students that got each score. Find the mean
D. Data near the mean are more frequent to occur score of the students.
23.) A random sample of plum tomatoes was selected
from a local grocery store and their weights recorded. The
mean weight was 6.5 ounces with a standard deviation of
0.4 ounces. If the weights are normally distributed, what
percentage of the weights fall between 5.7 and 7.3?

A. 68.3%
B. 95.4%
A. 80.47
C. 99.7%
B. 82.45
D. None of these
C. 78.29
 D. 88.15 39.) Each outcome in a sample space is called ___
31.) 10 students took an exam and listed below are their A. Element
scores. 69, 77,77,77, 84,85,85,87,92,98. B. Event
What is the median score of the students? C. Null space
D. Combination
A. 91.2
B. 84.5 40.)What is a subset of the sample space that contains no
C. 77 element?
D. 83.1
A. Zero
32.) Determine the 1ST quartile for the following data set: B. Event
C. Null space
11 12 13 16 16 17 18
D. Combination
21 22
41.) A luncheonette offers a special meal consisting of a
A. 13 sandwich (using one of eight different meals and one of
B. 14.5 four different types of bread), one of four different types
C. 12.5 of soup, and one of three different beverages. In how
D. 16
many ways can a person choose one of these special
33.) In a college, a list of grades of 12 students has been meals?
declared. Their grades are given as: 85, 34, 42, 51, 84, 86,
78, 85, 87, 69, 74, 65. Find the 80th percentile? A. 384
B. 192
A. 74 C. 16
B. 87 D. 256
C. 85 42.) A test consists of 15 multiple-choice questions, with
D. 86
each question having four possible answers. In how many
34.) 10 sample scores were taken from the whole different ways can a student check off one answer to
population of students and are listed as follows. each question?
69, 77,77,77, 84,85,85,87,92,98 A. 2,400
B. 363,412
What is the sample standard deviation?
C. 1,048,576
A. 70.56 D. 1,073,741,824
B. 8.4 43.) In how many ways can 10 people be seated on a
C. 83.2 beach if only 4 seats are available?
D. 1.24
A. 480
35.) What is the skewness when mode<median<mean?
B. 640
A. Zero Skewness C. 5040
B. Positive Skewness D. 4240
C. Negative Skewness 44.) In how many ways can seven scientists be assigned to
D. None of these 3 deluxe and 2 executive hotel rooms?
36.) A data set has a high concentration of higher values.
A. 350
What type of skewness is shown?
B. 420
A. Zero Skewness C. 35
B. Positive Skewness D. 42
C. Negative Skewness 45.) In how many ways can a person visit 14 churches
D. None of these among 23 churches this summer?
37.) A data set has a computed K (kurtosis) of equal to -
A. 124,200
1.45. This means that the distribution is ___
B. 817,190
A. Mesokurtic C. 2,680
B. Platykurtic D. 3,220
C. Leptokurtic 46.) A teacher has prepared 20 arithmetics tasks and 30
D. None of these geometry tasks. How many ways are to build a test with 3
38.) This measures how large the chance of an event to arithmetics and 2 geometry tasks?
happen.
A. 145,260
A. Possibility B. 320,180
B. Probability C. 495,900
C. Null D. 3,600
D. Intersection
47.) What is the complement of the event “at least 3
patients recover” out of 5 patients?

A. Only 2 patients recover

B. 2 or fewer patients recover
C. Less than 5 patients recover
D. None of these
48.) Which of the following is true about the probability
of an event A?

A. 0 < P(A) ≤ 1
B. 0 < P(A) < 1
C. 0 ≤ P(A) ≤ 1
D. None of these
49.) If three coins are flipped, what is the probability of
getting at least two tails?

A. 2/8
B. 1/2
C. 3/8
D. 1/6
50.) Find the probability of drawing a face card in an
ordinary deck of cards

A. 3/13
B. 1/8
C. 4/13
D. 8/12
51.) The probability that a student will pass his statistics
course is 2/3 and the probability that he passes English is
4/9. If the probability of passing both courses is 14/45,
what is the probability that he will pass at least one
course?

A. 9/10
B. 4/5
C. 6/7
D. 13/45
52.) The probability that a student is sick and he will go to
Veteran’s Hospital is 0.05. The probability that a student
will be sick is 0.20. What is the probability that a student
will go to Veteran’s hospital given that he is sick?

A. 0.04
B. 0.10
C. 0.25
D. 0.40
53.) The probability that it will rain today is 0.20. The
probability that it will rain tomorrow, given that it rained
today is 0.18. What is the probability that it will rain today
and tomorrow?

A. 0.90
B. 0.036
C. 0.38
D. 0.11