National Achievement Test (NAT) Grade 12 Sample Questionnaire: Statistics

1. What is the median of the following set of numbers: 10, 15, 20, 25, 30?
a) 15
b) 20
c) 22.5
d) 25
2. Which of the following measures of central tendency is most affected by outliers?
a) Mean
b) Median
c) Mode
d) Range
3. In a box plot, which part of the box represents the interquartile range (IQR)?
a) Lower quartile
b) Upper quartile
c) Middle quartile
d) Whiskers
4. If the correlation coefficient between two variables is -0.75, what does this indicate?
a) Strong positive correlation
b) Moderate negative correlation
c) Weak positive correlation
d) Strong negative correlation
5. A company's quarterly profits for the last year were $100,000, $150,000, $200,000, and
$250,000. What is the mean quarterly profit?
a) $175,000
b) $200,000
c) $225,000
d) $250,000
6.What is the probability of rolling a prime number with a fair six-sided die?
a) 1/2
b) 1/3
c) 1/4
d) 1/6
7.In a normal distribution, what percentage of data falls within one standard deviation
from the mean?
a) 34%
b) 50%
c) 68%
d) 95%
8. Which of the following is a measure of variability?
a) Mean
b) Median
c) Range
d) Mode
9. What is the formula for calculating standard deviation?
a) √(Σ(x - μ)² / n)
b) Σ(x - μ) / n
c) Σ(x - μ)
d) (Σ(x - μ) / n)²
10. Which type of sampling technique involves dividing the population into groups and
then randomly selecting individuals from each group?
a) Simple random sampling
b) Systematic sampling
c) Stratified sampling
d) Cluster sampling
11. What is the mode of the following set of numbers: 5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10?
a) 7
b) 8
c) 9
d) There is no mode
12. .In a normal distribution, what percentage of data falls within two standard deviations
from the mean?
a) 34%
b) 50%
c) 68%
d) 95%
13. What is the formula for calculating the coefficient of variation (CV)?
a) (Standard deviation / Mean) × 100%
b) Mean / Standard deviation
c) Standard deviation × Mean
d) (Mean - Standard deviation) × 100%
14. In a survey of 100 people, 60% preferred option A, 30% preferred option B, and 10%
preferred option C. What is the relative frequency of option B?
a) 0.10
b) 0.30
c) 0.40
d) 0.60
15. Which of the following is a measure of association used to examine the relationship
between two categorical variables?
a) Correlation coefficient
b) Chi-square test
c) T-test
d) ANOVA
16. What is the range of the following set of numbers: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11?
a) 2
b) 4
c) 8
d) 10
17. In a normal distribution, what percentage of data falls within three standard deviations
from the mean?
a) 34%
b) 50%
c) 68%
d) 99.7%
18. Which measure of central tendency is affected least by extreme values?
a) Mean
b) Median
c) Mode
d) Range
19. What is the probability of selecting a red marble from a bag containing 5 red marbles, 3
blue marbles, and 2 green marbles?
a) 1/10
b) 1/5
c) 1/3
d) 1/2
20. In a data set, which value appears most frequently?
a) Mean
b) Median
c) Mode
d) Range
21. Which of the following is used to visually represent the distribution of data and identify
outliers?
a) Histogram
b) Bar graph
c) Line graph
d) Pie chart
22. What is the formula for calculating the z-score of a data point?
a) (x - μ) / σ
b) (x - σ) / μ
c) (x - σ) × μ
d) (x - μ) × σ
23. What is the probability of rolling an odd number with a fair six-sided die?
a) 1/2
b) 1/3
c) 1/4
d) 1/6
24. In a box plot, what does an outlier represent?
a) A value that is within one standard deviation from the mean
b) A value that is greater than the upper quartile plus 1.5 times the interquartile range
c) A value that is less than the lower quartile minus 1.5 times the interquartile range
d) A value that is equal to the median
25. Which of the following statements about the mean is true?
a) It is the middle value in a data set.
b) It is not affected by extreme values.
c) It is less affected by outliers than the median.
d) It is the sum of all values divided by the number of values.
26. What is the formula for calculating the probability of an event?
a) Number of favorable outcomes / Total number of outcomes
b) Total number of outcomes / Number of favorable outcomes
c) Number of unfavorable outcomes / Total number of outcomes
d) Total number of outcomes / Number of unfavorable outcomes
27. What is the range of the following set of numbers: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12?
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5
28. Which of the following measures of dispersion is not affected by outliers?
a) Range
b) Interquartile range (IQR)
c) Standard deviation
d) Variance
29. What is the formula for calculating the variance of a data set?
a) Σ(x - μ)
b) √(Σ(x - μ)² / n)
c) Σ(x - μ) / n
d) Σ(x - μ)² / n
30. In a normal distribution, what is the approximate value of the mean, median, and
mode?
a) They are equal.
b) The mean is greater than the median, which is greater than the mode.
c) The mean is less than the median, which is less than the mode.
d) Their relationship depends on the standard deviation.
31. Which of the following is a measure of the spread of data around the mean?
a) Variance
b) Standard deviation
c) Range
d) All of the above
32. What is the formula for calculating the standard error of the mean?
a) σ / √n
b) √(Σ(x - μ)² / n)
c) μ / σ
d) σ / μ
33. In a contingency table, which axis represents the independent variable?
a) Horizontal axis
b) Vertical axis
c) Both axes
d) Neither axis
34. Which of the following is not a measure of central tendency?
a) Mean
b) Median
c) Mode
d) Standard deviation
35. What is the formula for calculating the mode of a data set?
a) Σx / n
b) (Max value + Min value) / 2
c) The most frequently occurring value(s)
d) Σ(x - μ)² / n
36. What is the probability of selecting a red card from a standard deck of 52 playing
cards?
a) 1/13
b) 1/4
c) 1/2
d) 1/52
37. Which of the following statements about the standard deviation is true?
a) It is the square root of the variance.
b) It is not affected by extreme values.
c) It is less sensitive to outliers than the mean.
d) It is the same as the range.
38. What is the formula for calculating the probability of mutually exclusive events?
a) P(A ∩ B) = P(A) × P(B)
b) P(A ∪ B) = P(A) + P(B)
c) P(A ∩ B) = P(A) + P(B)
d) P(A ∪ B) = P(A) × P(B)
39. In a contingency table, what does the cell count represent?
a) The frequency of each category
b) The total number of observations
c) The joint probability of two events
d) The percentage of the population
40. What is the formula for calculating the interquartile range (IQR)?
a) Q3 - Q1
b) Q1 - Q3
c) (Q1 + Q3) / 2
d) (Q3 - Q1) / 2
41. Which of the following is used to measure the strength and direction of the linear
relationship between two quantitative variables?
a) Scatter plot
b) Box plot
c) Histogram
d) Pie chart
42. What is the probability of flipping a fair coin and getting heads?
a) 1/2
b) 1/3
c) 1/4
d) 1/6
43. In a contingency table, what does the row total represent?
a) The frequency of each category
b) The total number of observations
c) The joint probability of two events
d) The percentage of the population
44. Which of the following statements about the median is true?
a) It is the middle value in a data set.
b) It is not affected by extreme values.
c) It is less affected by outliers than the mean.
d) It is the sum of all values divided by the number of values.
45. What is the formula for calculating the range of a data set?
a) Max value - Min value
b) Σ(x - μ)² / n
c) Σ(x - μ) / n
d) √(Σ(x - μ)² / n)
46. In a contingency table, what does the column total represent?
a) The frequency of each category
b) The total number of observations
c) The joint probability of two events
d) The percentage of the population
47. What is the probability of rolling a multiple of 3 with a fair six-sided die?
a) 1/2
b) 1/3
c) 1/4
d) 1/6
48. Which of the following measures of central tendency is not affected by extreme values?
a) Mean
b) Median
c) Mode
d) Range
49. What is the formula for calculating the mean of a data set?
a) (Max value + Min value) / 2
b) Σ(x - μ)² / n
c) Σ(x - μ) / n
d) Σx / n
50. Which of the following is used to measure the spread of data around the median?
a) Variance
b) Standard deviation
c) Range
d) Interquartile range (IQR)