Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
MIMAROPA Region
Division of Oriental Mindoro

CHAPTER TEST
I. Multiple Choice: Write the letter of the correct answer.
1. Which of the following random variables is continuous?
a. the capacity of an auditorium c. the number of households
b. the weights of babies d. the outcomes of a die and coin
2. What is the shape of a normal distribution?
a. half curve b. parabolic c. bell-shaped d. round curve
3. What is the area under the normal curve?
a. 0.1000 b. 100% c. 0 d. 3
4. How would you describe the relationship of the mean, median and mode in a normal distribution?
a. the mean is greater than the median and mode c. the mean is less than the median and mode
b. the mean is equal to the median and mode d. the mean is greater than the median but less than the mode
5. About which of the following is a normal distribution symmetric?
a. about its median b. about its mean c. about its standard deviation d. about its mode
6. Which of the following affects the spread of the normal curve?
a. mean b. median c. mode d. standard deviation
7. How can you describe the tails of the normal curve?
a. it is symmetric to the mean c. it is asymptotic along the horizontal axis
b. it has inflection point at ±1 standard deviation d. it rises up towards the peak
8. What value of z-score has an area of 0.4738?
a. 1. 93 b. 1.94 c. 1. 84 d. 1.85
9. What proportion of the population from a standard normal distribution has an equivalent z-score value of 1.15?
a. 0.1215 b. 0.3749 c. 0.3531 d. 0.3944
10. What is the z-score value that corresponds to 67th percentile?
a. 0.74 b. 0.44 c. 1.17 d. 0.18
11. If the shaded area under the normal curve is 0.85, what is the area of the missing portion of the curve?
a. 0.26 b. 0.30 c. 0.15 d. 0.25
12. It is the graphical representation of percentage, proportion, percent or probability under the normal curve.
a. Area b. Tails C. Peak d. Inflection point
13. Under the curve, the area to the right of the mean µ is _______.
a. 0.4500 b. 0.1000 c. 0.5000 d. 0.2500
14. On a 100-item test, the following are the scores of 16 students: 25, 50, 50, 75, 75, 75, 89, 89, 89, 89, 95, 95, 95, 95, 95, 98.
How will you describe the curve of the distribution?
a. normal curve b. skewed to the left c. skewed to the right d. diagonally skewed
15. Find the z-score value that corresponds to the given area.
a. - 0. 22 b. - 1. 33 c. – 0. 51 d. – 0. 41

A = 0.4129

II. Solve the given problems and box the final answer. Draw an illustration if needed.
1. What is the area between z = - 2.18 and z = - 0.23?

2. What is the area to the left of z = 1.74?

3. Having obtained a score of 85 in the recently concluded test in Science. His teacher told them that their scores are
normally distributed with a mean of 82 and a SD of 1.80. John wants to know its corresponding value in the normal curve.
Find it.

4. The mean temperature of Glen Falls for the month of February is 23 degrees with a standard deviation of 4 degrees. What
is the corresponding z-score for a temperature of 17 degrees?

5. Women’s height have a mean of 63.6 inches and standard deviation of 2.5 inches. The z-score corresponding to Gina’s
height is z= 2.56. How tall is Gina? (what is the height of Gina?

6. The distribution of heights of adult American men is approximately normal with a µ=69 inches and σ= 2.5 inches. What is
the probability of men having a height greater than 74 inches?

7. The scoring of modern IQ is such that Intelligence Quotient have a normal distribution of µ= 100 and σ=15. Mensa
International accepts only people with IQ within the top 2%. What level of IQ should a person have to qualify?

8. The average gas consumed by a certain model car is 30 km/L. If the gas consumption are normally distributed with a
standard deviation of 3 km/L, find the probability that a car has a gas consumption between 22 km/L and 34 km/L.

9. In a National Achievement test, Paulo score is located at the 38 th percentile rank. If the scores are normally distributed
with a µ= 78 and σ= 4, what is Paulo’s score in the test?

10. Five hundred (500) children participated in a field demonstration. Their heights averaged 110 cm with a standard deviation
of 6 cm. If the heights are normally distributed, how many children have a height taller than 122 cm?