FOURTH PERIODICAL TEST IN STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Name: ___________________ Yr. And Sec. __________ Date: ______ Score: _____

Directions: In the following multiple choice questions, circle the correct answer.
1. Which of these values is a parameter?
a. X b. X c. µ d. z
2. What do you call processes involved in making conclusion about population values?
a. Estimating Parameters c. Inferential statistics
b. Hypothesis Testing d. Descriptive statistics
3. Subsets of population are called:
a. samples b. elements c. estimates d. averages
4. Which of the following best represents the central value of a set of data?
a. Variance b. Average c. Proportion d. Standard deviation
5. Which of the following illustrates confidence level?
a. 32.8 b. 30-39 c. 90% d. 90%-94%
6. The mean gasoline consumption of 10 cars is 28 liters with a standard deviation of 1.6 liters. Find the interval
estimate using 95% confidence level. What is α?
a. 95% b. 28 c. 16 d. .05
7. An intelligent guess about the characteristic of a population is called:
a. mean b. proportion c. hypothesis d. test statistic
8. When the confidence level is 95%, alpha is equal to:
a. 0.01 b. 0.01 c. 05 d. 0.5
9. When that confidence level is 99%, α is:
a. 0.1 b. 0.01 c. 0.05 d. 0.5
10. Which of the following is correct?
a. the mean of the sampling distribution of the means is less than the population mean
b. the mean of the sampling distribution of the means is greater than the population mean
c. the mean of the samples drawn from the population are always equal to the population mean
d. the means of the samples drawn from a population may be equal, greater than or less than the
population mean.
11. A certain population has a mean of 15.4 and a standard deviation of 5.6. If random samples of size 5 is taken
from this population, which of the following statements is correct?
a. the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means is equal to 15.4
b. the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample means is less than to 15.4
c. the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample means is to 5.6
d. the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample means is to 15.4
12. What do you call a set of people, objects, events, or ideas you want to investigate?
a. sample b. population c. data d. statistics
13. A sample refers to _________ of a population.
a. a subset b. a list c. a description d. another name
14. What do you call a number that describes population characteristics?
a. sample statistic b. parameter c. variable d. decimal
15. Which of the following symbols denotes population mean?
a. x b. ᶞ c. µ d. z
16. What values are indicated at the base of a normal distribution?
a. z b. t c. R d. s
17. In a standard normal distribution, the mean is ___ and the standard normal deviation is _____.
a. 1,0 b. 0,1 c. 1,1 d. 0,0
18. Which of the confidence level is most commonly used by researchers?

a. 68% b. 90% c. 95% d. 99%

19. Under the standard normal distribution, what is the z – value that corresponds to an area of 0.4750?
a. ∓2.58 b. ∓2.33 c. ∓1.96 d. ∓1.645
20. The following statement is better known as _________.
“As the sample size increases, the sampling distribution of the means approaches the normal
distribution regardless of the shape of the population distribution”
a. the Bayes’ Theorem b. The central Limit Theorem c. z – Distribution d. t – distribution
21. A numerical value used as a summary measure for a sample, such as sample mean, is known as a
a. population parameter
b. sample parameter
c. sample statistic
d. population mean
e. None of the above answers is correct.

22. Since the population size is always larger than the sample size, then the sample statistic
a. can never be larger than the population parameter
b. can never be equal to the population parameter
c. can never be zero
d. can never be smaller than the population parameter
e. None of the above answers is correct.
ANSWER:
23. Myu is an example of a
a. population parameter
b. sample statistic
c. population variance
d. mode
e. None of the above answers is correct.

24. The mean of a sample is

a. always equal to the mean of the population
b. always smaller than the mean of the population
c. computed by summing the data values and dividing the sum by (n - 1)
d. computed by summing all the data values and dividing the sum by the number of items
e. None of the above answers is correct.

25. The sum of the percent frequencies for all classes will always equal
a. one
b. the number of classes
c. the number of items in the study
d. 100
e. None of the above answers is correct.

26. In a sample of 800 students in a university, 160, or 20%, are Business majors. Based on the above
information, the school's paper reported that "20% of all the students at the university are Business majors."
This report is an example of
a. a sample
b. a population
c. statistical inference
d. descriptive statistics
e. None of the above answers is correct.

27. It is a measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values.
a. mean
b. a population
c. standard deviation
d. variance
e. None of the above answers is correct.
28. A statistics professor asked students in a class their ages. On the basis of this information, the professor
states that the average age of all the students in the university is 21 years. This is an example of
a. a census
b. descriptive statistics
c. an experiment
d. statistical inference
e. None of the above answers is correct.

29. A tabular summary of a set of data showing the fraction of the total number of items in several classes is a
a. frequency distribution
b. relative frequency distribution
c. frequency
d. cumulative frequency distribution
e. None of the above answers is correct.

30. The standard deviation of a sample of 100 observations equals 64. The variance of the sample equals
a. 8
b. 10
c. 6,400
d. 4,096
e. None of the above answers is correct.

31. The variance of a sample of 81 observations equals 64. The standard deviation of the sample equals
a. 0
b. 4096
c. 8
d. 6,561
e. None of the above answers is correct.

A researcher has collected the following sample data.

5 12 6 8 5
6 7 5 12 4
32. The median is
a. 5 b. 6 c. 7 d. 8 e. None of the above answers is correct.

33. The mode is

a. 5
b. 6
c. 7
d. 8
e. None of the above answers is correct.

34. The mean is

a. 5
b. 6
c. 7
d. 8
e. None of the above answers is correct.

A researcher has collected the following sample data. The mean of the sample is 5.
3 5 12 3 2
35. The variance is
a. 80
b. 4.062
c. 13.2
d. 16.5
e. None of the above answers is correct.

36. The standard deviation is

a. 8.944
b. 4.062
c. 13.2
d. 16.5
e. None of the above answers is correct.

For nos. 37 - 39, please refer to the choices below.

A. x is true B. x is false C. x is true D. x is false

Y is true y is false y is false y is true

37. x: In Chi square, they need to estimate whether two random variables are independent.


Y: Important things to note when considering using the Chi-Square test is that it only tests whether two
individual variables are independent in a quantitative.
38. x: A value lesser than 0 indicates a positive association; that is, as the value of one variable increases, so
does the value of the other variable.

Y: A value less than 0 indicates a positive association; that is, as the value of one variable increases, the
value of the other variable decreases.

39. Is there a significant relationship between voter intent and political party membership?
a. Chi square test b. spearman rank test c. ANNOVA d. Pearson Correlation

40. An analysis between an experiment between plant growth using 3 kinds of fertilizer.

a. a. Chi square test b. t-test c. ANNOVA d. Pearson Correlation

41. An impact of modular approach in teaching statistics.

a. Chi square test b. t-test c. ANNOVA d. Pearson Correlation

42. You might want to find out whether basketball performance is correlated to a person's height.

a. Spearman rank test b. t-test c. ANNOVA d. Pearson Correlation

43. A study on the unanimity of the judges in a musical (solo vocal) talent contest where 10 competitors are
evaluated by two judges, A and B.

a. Spearman Rank test b. t-test c. ANNOVA d. Pearson Correlation

44. A ketchup company regularly receives large shipments of tomatoes. For each shipment that is received, the
supervisor takes a random sample o 500 tamatoes to see what percent of the sample is bruised and performs the
significance test. If the sample show convincing evidence that more than 10 percent of the entire shipment of
tomatoes is bruised, then they will request a new shipment of tomatoes.

Let p represent the proportion of tomatoes in a shipment that are bruised.

What are appropriate hypothesis for the company’s significance test?

a. Ho: p = 0.1 Ha: p <0.1

b. Ho: p > 0.1 Ha: p <0.1

c. Ho: p = 0.1 Ha: p >0.1

d. Ho: p > 0.1 Ha: p >0.1

45. A restaurant owner installed a new automated drink machine. The machine is designed to dispense 530 ml
of liquid on the medium sized setting. The owner suspects that the machine maybe dispensing too much in
medium drinks. They decided to take a sample of 30 medium drinks to see if the average amount is significantly
greater than 530 ml.

What hypothesis are appropriate for their significance test?

a. Ho: p ≠ 530 ml Ha: p >530

b. Ho: p = 530 ml Ha: p<530 ml

c. Ho: p = 530 ml Ha: p>530 ml

d. Ho: p ≠ 530 ml Ha: p<530 ml

46. Lena is a college basketball player who has made 75% of the free throws. She has attempted i her career.
She decided to practice a new technique fro shooting her free throws. Lena was curious if this new technique
produced significantly better or worse results. She tried the new technique and made 70 % of 50 attempts.
Here’s Lena’s alternative hypothesis.

Ha: the proportion of attempts made using this technique is...

What is an appropriate way for Lena to finish her alternative hypothesis?

a. .... equal to 70%

b. ...not equal to 70%

c. ...equal to 75%

d. ...not equal to 75%

47. The healthcare provider saw that 48% of their members received their flu shot in the recent year. The
healthcare provider tried a new advertising strategy in the following year and they took a sample of members to
test if the proportion who received their flu shot had changed. What is the appropriate hypothesis for their
significance test?

a. Ho: p = 48% Ha: p >48%

b. Ho: p > 48% Ha: p ≠ 48%

c. Ho: u = 48% Ha: u > 48%

d. Ho: u = 48% Ha: u ≠ 48%

48. A newspaper report claims that 30% of all tea drinkers prefer green tea to black tea. Leo is the office
manager at a company with thousands of employees. He wonders if the newspapers claim hold true at his
company. To find out Leo asks a simple random sample of 125 tea drinkers’ employees which they prefer,
green tea or black tea? Here’s Leo’s null hypothesis:

Ho: the proportion of all tea drinkers at the company that prefers green tea to black tea is...

What is an appropriate way for Leo to finish his null hypothesis?

a. ... not equal to 30%

b. ...equal to 30 %

c. ...less than 30%

d. ... greater than 30%

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