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Directions: Choose the correct answer. Write the letter of your answer on the blank.

1. How many possible outcomes are there in tossing a coin and in selecting a ball out of 10 different colored balls?
A. 2 B. 5 C. 7 D.20

2. A pair of dice rolled. Find the probability that the sum of two faces is at least 9.
A. 1/9 B. 5/18 C. 1/3 D. 7.36

3. A numerical value that is computed to describe the characteristic of a sample derived from a certain population is
called ______
A. sample B. population C. statistic D. parameter

4. The probability for the variable X is shown below. If the mean is 1.1, what is the value of the standard deviation?
X 0 1 2
P(x) 0.20 0.50 0.30
A. 0.49 B. 0.36 C. 0.7 D. 0.6

5. Which of the following random variables is continuous

A. Number of patients admitted in a certain hospital from 6:00 PM to 6:00 AM
B. Duration of the next telephone call received by an office
C. Number of applicants for a job
D. Number of typographical errors on a 100-page document

6. A coin is tossed twice. Let X be the random variable defined as the number of heads obtained. Find the probability
that at least one head is obtained.
A. 0.25 B. 0.50 C. 0.75 D. 1.0

7. Which of the following is not a valid reason for performing sampling?

A. It is costly to study the whole population
B. It requires more time to study the whole population
C. It is sometimes impractical to study the whole population
D. The data gathered from a sample are more substantial than the data gathered from the entire population

8. In an achievement test, the mean score is 100 with standard deviation of 15. What is the 90 th percentile?
A. 118 B. 119 C. 120 D. 121

9. A large company produced engines for speedboats with an average power of 220 horsepower (HP) and standard
deviation of 15 HP. A potential buyer decides to take a random sample of 36 engines. If the sample mean is less than
215 HP, he will not place an order. Find the probability that the buyer will not place an order.
A. 2.28% B. 17.42% C. 47.72% D. 97.72%

10. The average score of 100 students in a quiz is 26 with standard deviation of 6. If 16 students were randomly
selected, what is the standard error of the sample means? Assume that the sampling was done with replacement.
A. 0.028 B. 0.17 C. 0.41 D. 1.5

11. It refers to the closeness of the estimate to the true value.

A. accuracy B. precision C. efficiency D. unbiased

12. The most reliable point estimate for the population mean is _____
A. sample variance B. sample mean C. sample statistic D. sample standard deviation

13. Which of the following confidence coefficients has a narrower width of the confidence interval?
A. 0.90 B. 0.95 C. 0.975 D. 0.99

14. Which of the following is not true about the t-distribution?

A. It has more area in the tails and less in the center when compared to the normal distribution.
B. It is used to construct confidence intervals for the population mean when the population standard deviation
is known.
C. It is bell shaped and symmetrical
D. It approaches the normal distribution as the number of degrees of freedom increases.
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15. Which of the following is not true about the interval estimate using the z-distribution?
A. The length of the interval decreases as the population standard deviation decreases
B. The length of the interval decreases as the sample size n increases
C. The length of the interval decreases as the confidence level decreases
D. The length of the interval increases as the sample size n increases

16. Suppose a study entitled “Study on the Relationship between the Level of Parental Support and the Academic
Achievement of Senior High School Students” is being conducted by a researcher. What null hypothesis can be
formulated?
A. The level of parental support is negatively related to the academic achievement of the senior high school
students.
B. The level of parental support is positively related to the academic achievement of the senior high school
students.
C. The level of parental support is not related to the academic achievement of the senior high school
students.
D. There is a significant relationship between the level of parental support and the academic achievement of
the senior high school students.

17. The average distance in meters which 10 randomly selected men can run in 5 seconds is 126 meters and the
standard deviation is 4. Find the length of the 95% confidence interval of the true mean?
A. 45.76 B. 54.67 C. 65.47 D. 76.54

18. The slope of the regression line is 0.5. Which of the following interpretations is correct?
A. The dependent variable increases by 0.5 for every unit increase in the independent variable.
B. The dependent variable decreases by 0.5 for every 1 unit increase in the independent variable
C. The independent variable increases by 0.5 for every 1 unit increase in the dependent variable
D. The independent variable decreases by 0.5 for every 1 unit increase in the dependent variable

19. A type II error in hypothesis testing is committed when _______.

A. a null hypothesis that is true is rejected
B. a null hypothesis that is true is not rejected
C. a null hypothesis that is false is rejected
D. a null hypothesis that is false is not rejected

20. Which of the following steps in hypothesis testing must be done immediately before making a decision on the null
hypothesis?
A. Formulate the null and alternative hypothesis
B. Identify the test statistic to use
C. Specify the rejection region
D. Compute the value of the test statistic

21. 82/3 is equal to

A. 16/3 B. 64/3 C. 2 D. 4

22. (x – 2)2
A. x2 – 4 B. x2 + 4 C. x2 – 4x + 4 D. x2 + 4x + 4

23. What is the equation of the line passing through (3,2) with a slope of 4?
A. y = 3x + 4 B. y = 4x – 10 C. 3x + 2y = 4 D. 4x + 3y = 2

24. If a> 0 and b> 0, then 3(a0b2) is equal to

A. 3b2 B. y= 4x – 10 C. 3x + 2y = 4 D. 4x + 3y = 2

25. The graph of x2 – y2 = 10 is

A. a circle B. an ellipse C. a hyperbola C. a parabola

26. The time in hours to travel 30 miles at x – 1 miles per hour is

30 𝑥−1
A. 𝑥−1 B. 30 C. 30(x – 1) C. 30x – 1
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27. Translate into mathematical equation: “3 is divided by 4 less than a number x and the result is 12”
4−𝑥 3 𝑥 3
A. 3 B. 4−𝑥 C. 3 − 4 = 12 D. 𝑥−4 = 12

28. √5 + √20 is equal to

A. 2√5 B. 5 C. 3√5 D. 10

29. Evaluate ac2 + a3b if a=2, b=3, and c=4

A. 27 B. 32 C. 49 D. 56

30. If the graph of y = x2 + 2x +k passes through the point (1,2), then k is equal to
A. 1 B. -1 C. 2 D. -2

31. If f(-x) = f(x) for every value of x in the domain of the function f, then which of the following is true about f?
A. f is an even function and its graph is symmetric with respect to the origin.
B. f is an even function and its graph is symmetric with respect to the y-axis
C. f is an odd function and its graph is symmetric with respect to the origin
D. f is an odd function and its graph is symmetric with respect to the y-axis
2
32. Which of the following is not in the range of f(x) = 𝑥+3
A. -3 B. 0 C. 2 D. 3

33. Which of the following is not true about the function whose graph is shown below?
A. The function is a one-to-one function
B. The range of the function is the set of real numbers
C. The function is a square root function
D. The domain of the function is the set of nonnegative real numbers
−𝑥+7
34. Decompose 2𝑥 2 −𝑥−1
5 2 5 2 2 5 5 2
A. − 2𝑥+1 + B. 2𝑥+1 − C. + D. − 𝑥−1 +
𝑥−1 𝑥−1 𝑥−1 2𝑥+1 2𝑥+1

35. Which of the following functions has a zero which is equal to -1?
(𝑥+1)² 2𝑥²
A. y = x3 – 3x B. f(x) = 2x2 – 3 C. y = D. f(x) =
𝑥 3𝑥

36. Which of the following pairs of functions are inverse functions?

2 1
A. f(x) = − 𝑥+1 + 3 B. f(x) = 2𝑥 + 8 C. f(x) = −5 + 3 𝑥 D. f(x) = -2x + 8
2 1 1
g(x) = 𝑥−3 + 1 g(x) = 2 − 4 𝑥 g(x) = 3x – 15 g(x) = 2 − 𝑥
4

37. Find the value of x in logx16 = 2

A. 1 B. 2 C. 4 D. 8

38. If Ivan borrowed P 60,000 at an annual simple interest rate of 4% for 15 years, how much interest should he
pay?
A. P 30,000 B. P 35,000 C. P 36,000 D. P 40,000

39. How long will an amount of money double at a simple interest rate of 2% per annum?
A. 20 years B. 30 years C. 40 years D. 50 years

40. Which of the following represents the shaded area under the normal curve given below for a certain z
value.

z1 z2
A. greater than z1 B. between z1 and z2 C. at most z1 D. less than z2