Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region V
Division of Camarines Sur
Freedom Sports Complex, San Jose, Pili, Camarines Sur
SAN JOSE PILI NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

STATISTICS & PROBABILITY

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Name: _____________________________________________________ Grade Level & Section:___________________________Score:

___________

Note: Please read and carefully understand the instruction. God Bless!

A. Read the statements carefully and choose the letter of the best answer.

1. If two coins are tossed once, which is NOT a possible value of the random variable for the number of heads?

A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3

2. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?

A. Length of wire ropes C. Amount of paint used in repainting the building.

B. Number of soldiers in the troop D. Voltage of car batteries

3. Which formula gives the probability distribution shown by the table?

X 3 4 5
P(X) 1/3 1/4 1/5

A. P(X) = X B. P(X) = 1/X C. P(X) = X/3 D. P(X) = X/5

4. How many ways are there in tossing two coins once?

A. 4 B. 3 C. 2 D. 1

5. It is a numerical quantity that is assigned to the outcome of an experiment.

A. random variable B. variable C. probability D. probability distribution

B. Classify the following random variables as discrete or continuous.

6. The weight of the professional wrestlers

7. The number of winners in lotto for each day

8. The area of lots in an exclusive subdivision

9. The speed of a car

10. The number of dropouts in a school per district

C. Find the mean, variance, and standard deviation of the following probability distribution then interpret the
computed values. Provide Computation.

11-15. Variable z representing the number of male teachers per Elementary school.

Z 2 3 4 5 6
P(z) 40% 32% 11% 9% 8%
16-20. The number of mobile phones sold per day at a retail store varies as shown in the given probability distribution
below. Find the expected number of mobile phones that will be sold in one day.

X 30 33 38 40 50
P(x) 0.2 0.2 0.35 0.23 0.02

D. Complete the table by putting check as to AGREE or DISGAREE on the corresponding columns for the following
statements.

Statement Agree Disagree

21. The normal curve of the distribution is bell-shaped.
22. In a normal distribution, the mean, median and mode are of equal values.
23. The normal curve gradually gets closer and closer to 0 on one side.
24. The normal curve is symmetrical about the mean.
25. The distance between the two inflection points of the normal curve is equal to the value of the
mean.

E. Observe the illustrations then answer the questions that follow.

Figure A Figure B

Guide Questions:
26. What is the mean? 27. What is the standard deviation?

Figure A: _______________ Figure B: _______________ Figure A: _______________ Figure B: ______________

28. What is the area of the shaded region? 29. What did you do to identify the area of the shaded region?

Figure A: _______________ Figure B: _______________ Figure A: _______________________ Figure B: ______________________

30. Did you use the same method? ________________________

F. Identify which sampling method is applied in the following situations.

31. The teacher randomly selects 20 boys and 15 girls from a batch of learners to be members of a group that will go to a
field trip.
32. A sample of 10 mice are selected at random from a set of 40 mice to test the effect of a certain medicine.
33. The people in a certain seminar are all members of two of five groups are asked what they think about the President.
34. A brand manager of a toothpaste asks ten dentists that have clinic closest to his office whether they use a particular
brand of toothpaste.
35. A barangay health worker asks every four houses in the village for the ages of the children living in those households.
G. With the given jumbled letters, complete the statements below by arranging the letters below. Write your
answers on your answer sheets.

41. A – S – N – L – M – I – P – G
The _____________ distribution of sample means is frequency distribution of the sample means taken from a population.
42. O – T – M – A – R – S – I – G – H
The _____________ of the sampling distribution of the sample means is a bar graph constructed by plotting the sample
means
along the horizontal axis and the problem along the vertical axis.
43. A – M – E – N
The _____________ of the sampling distribution of the sample means is equal to the mean of the population.
44. R – O – R – E – R
Standard _____________ of the mean is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean.
45. D – E – X – E – P – E – T – C
Mean is also called _____________ value.
H. The following table gives the sum of tutorial rate of six teachers in Central Luzon per month. Suppose that
random samples of size 4 are taken from this population of six teachers, do the following tasks.

Teacher Tutorial Rate (X)

A 8

B 12

C 16

D 20

E 24

F 28

46. Solve for the mean of the population μ.

47. Solve for the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means μx̄ .
48. Compare μ and μx.
49. Solve for the variance (σ2) and the standard deviation (σ) of the population.
50. Solve the variance (σ2x) and the standard deviation (σx) of the sampling
distribution of the sample means μx.
Additional Point. Compare σ and σx

Prepared by:

MA. THERESA N. HABANA

Subject Teacher