EXAMINATION

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Senior Highschool
Statistics and Probability

Name:___________________________________________ Date:_____________________

Section:_________________________________________ Teacher: ___________________

GENERAL INSTRUCTION: Write legibly and clearly, any form of erasure or

alteration on your answer shall be construed wrong.

I. Determine whether the underlined value is a PARAMETER or a STATISTIC. Write your answer on
the space provided.
________________ 1. In a national survey on substance abuse, 10% of respondents aged 12 to 17 reported
using illicit drugs within the past month.
________________ 2. Ty Cobb is one of major league baseball’s greatest hitters of all time, with a career
batting average of 0.366.
________________ 3. A study of 6,076 adults in public rest rooms (in Manila, Quezon City, Makati,
Mandaluyong, San Juan) found that 23% did not wash their hands before exiting.
________________ 4. Interview of 100 adults 18 years of age older, conducted nationwide, found that 44%
could state the minimum age required for the office of Philippine president.
________________ 5. 68% of students out of 1000 surveyed planned to go to college right after high school.

II. Complete the tables below to answer the following:

Given the population 1, 3, 4, 6, 8.
1. Find the mean ( µ ) of the population.

2. Find the variance ( σ2 ) and standard deviation ( σ ) of the population.

X X-µ (X - µ)2

3. Find the mean ( µ ), variance ( σ2 ) and standard deviation ( σ ) of the sample means suppose samples
of size 3 are drawn from this population.
X́ P(X)
 SAMPLE MEAN Sample Frequency Probability X́ ∙ P(x) X́ 2 X́ 2 ∙ P(x)
Mean

III. For each of the following conjecture, state the null (H o) and the alternative hypothesis (H a). Write
your complete answer on the space provided.

1. According the the U.S. Department of Education, full-time graduate students receive an average salary
of $12,800. The dean of graduate studies at a large state university in PA claims that his graduate
students earn more than this. He surveys 46 randomly selected students and finds their average salary
is $13,445 with a standard deviation of $1800. Is the dean’s claim correct?
Ho : ____________________________________________________________________________
Ha : ____________________________________________________________________________
2. A health researcher read that a 200-pound male can burn an average of 524 calories per hour playing
tennis. 37 males were randomly selected and the mean number of calories burned per hour playing
squash was 534.8 with a standard deviation of 45.9 calories. Do squash players burn more calories per
hour than tennis players? 
Ho : ____________________________________________________________________________
Ha : ____________________________________________________________________________
3. To see if young men ages 8-17 years spend a different amount than the national average of $24.44 per
shopping trip to a local mall, the manager surveyed 30 young men. She found that the average amount
spent per trip was $23.37 with a standard deviation of $3.70. Can it be concluded that 8-17 years old
spend a different amount at the local mall than the national average?
Ho : ____________________________________________________________________________
Ha : ____________________________________________________________________________
4. A principal at a certain school claims that the students in his school are above average intelligence. A
random sample of thirty students IQ scores have a mean score of 112. Is there sufficient evidence to
support the principal’s claim? The mean population IQ is 100 with a standard deviation of 15.
Ho : ____________________________________________________________________________
Ha : ____________________________________________________________________________
5. Blood glucose levels for obese patients have a mean of 100 with a standard deviation of 15. A
researcher thinks that a diet high in raw cornstarch will have a positive or negative effect on blood
glucose levels. A sample of 30 patients who have tried the raw cornstarch diet have a mean glucose
level of 140. Test the hypothesis that the raw cornstarch had an effect.
Ho : ____________________________________________________________________________
Ha : ____________________________________________________________________________