PALAWAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Graduate School
FINAL EXAMS IN STATISTICS
Test I Solve the following problems:

Note:
a. Show complete solutions
b. Formulate: Statement of the problem ( HA & HO )
c. Test the Significance
d. Interpret the result

1.Two judges X and Y were asked to rank ten swimmers in a swimming competition in the order of their
swimming ability. The two sets are given:

Swimmer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Judge X 8 4 9 6 3 2 7 1 10 5

Judge Y 5 4 10 8 2 1 6 3 9 7

2. A psychologist made a study on the Mathematics and English grades of a group of 10 students. The
following data were obtained:

Student A B C D E F G H I J

Mathematics (X) 90 93 93 91 90 90 92 86 91 90

English (Y) 83 91 90 91 85 91 84 88 88 82

3. A local fire department believes that as the temperature decreases, the number of fire increases. To
support this claim, the department gathered the following data:

Temperature 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50

No. of fires 28 32 35 39 51 55 56 66

4. Solve the Variance

Income
Age X1 X2 X3
Php15,000-18,000 Php18,001-21,000 Php 21,001-up
50-59 10 13 8

40-49 8 14 15

30-39 10 11 12

20-29 6 10 10

Total
5. Complete the table & Compute the Chi- Square

Profession
Job Performance
O VS S F Total

Teacher 22 48 6 2

Lawyer 19 42 7 1

Doctor 19 50 5 1

Total

Test II.

1. Complete the table and compute for

a. Mean b. Median c. Mode d. Q1 e. Q3

f. D4 g. D7 h. D5 i. P75 j. P95
k. P=3.2 L. How many % are > 2.3 m. Standard Deviation

X f <cf fXm X’ f X’ f X’2

1.8-2.1 5
2.2-2.5 4
2.6-2.9 5
3.0-3.3 14
3.4-3.7 15
3.8-4.1 9
4.2-4.5 5
4.6-4.9 3
i= n=

2. Three students are named finalists in the search for A-4 student of the year. The evaluation
papers revealed the following scores of the students in the five different areas.

Student 1 97, 92, 96, 95, 90

Student 2 94, 94, 92, 94, 96

Student 3 95, 94, 93, 96, 92

Question: who among the students is the most consistent?

GOOD LUCK! AND GOD BLESS…

Prepared by:
Ma. Chona S. Rizada, Ph.D.
Professor