First Quiz in Grade 8b- Statistics

Identify the following underlined quantitative variables are discrete or continuous. Write D if discrete and
C if continuous.
1. Length of hair of female students.
2. The number of students in Grade 9 Brilliance.
3. The boiling point of water is 100C.
4. Average Monthly Income of families in Batangas City.
5. Number of students in Princeton Science School.
Identify whether the following observations in bold letters are nominal , ordinal ,interval or ratio.
6. Sex: Male or Female
7. Religion: Catholic, Buddhist , Islam
8. Anxiety level: Low, Moderate, High , Very High
9. Number of female players per team in volleyball tournament.
10. Body temperature of students in the clinic.
11. Academic Performance in math: Poor, fair, Good, Very Good.
12. Weight in pounds of the newborn baby.
13. Length of the study time per day spent by students of Princeton during examination period.
14. Socio-economic status of residents of Barangay Sta.Rita.
15. Educational Attainment: Elementary Graduate. High School Graduate, College Graduate.

Write TRUE if the statement is correct. If the statement is incorrect, change the underlined
word/s or expression to make it correct.

16. A questionnaire is a list of well-planned questions written on paper which can be personally
administered or mailed by the researcher.
17. Stratified Random Sampling is a method when a population is divided into different clusters or
classes.
18. The lottery method is the easiest and the most common random sampling method.
19. When the members of the population have equal chances of being included in the study you can
call it Sampling Techniques.
20. Direct method uses the telephone to interview the respondents.

Identify what sampling techniques pertain to different situations.

21. Princeton Science School wants to assess the performance of its students. Instead of selecting
students randomly, they divide students into grade levels and then randomly select a sample of
students from each grade level.
22. The tech company may want to survey 1,000 customers about new products.
23. There are 20 barangays in Batangas. The researcher selects all members of barangay Sta. Rita as
their respondents.
24. The researcher looks for teachers as their respondents in the research Entitled” The attitude of the
students inside the classroom.
25. The teacher prepared box containing the names of the students.