PARAÑAQUE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL – MAIN Semester : Score:

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1ST SEMESTER

(2nd Quarter)
ACADEMIC AND TECH-VOC Type of Exam:
STRANDS NAT REVIEWER
S.Y. 2023-2024 Subject:
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Name:
Grade & Section: Date of Examination:

DIRECTION. Choose the letter of the best answer and write it on your 10. Which of the following illustrates a systematic sampling method?
answer sheet. A. A researcher conducted a survey of 50 randomly selected
workers from each of these categories: high school graduate, with
For Items 1-3, refer to the problem below. undergraduate degrees, with master’s degree, and with doctoral
A pilot senior high school had 1 200 students enrolled in 2012 and degree.
2000 students in 2016. The student population (P) grows as a linear B. A researcher interviewed all freshmen in each of 15
function of time t, where t is the number of years after 2012. randomly selected public schools in Surigao del Norte.
C. A researcher doing a research work on students’ reaction
1. As time progresses, what happens to the student population? of the newly implemented curriculum and interviewed every 10th
A. increases C. decreases student entering the gate.
B. stays the same D. no effect at all D. A researcher selected a sample of n = 120 from a
population 850 using the Table of Random Numbers.
2. Which is the independent variable in the given problem?
A. student population 11. A randomly selected sample of 400 students at a university with 15-
B. type of school week semesters was asked whether or not they think the semester
C. number of years after 2012 should be shortened to 14 weeks (with longer classes). Forty-six
D. percentage of change in student population percent (46%) of the 400 students surveyed answered "yes." Which
one of the following statements about the number 46% is correct?
3. It is a variable being measured to produce numerical observations A. It is a sample statistic C. It is a population parameter
associated with the random outcomes of a chance experiment. B. It is a random variable. D. It is a quantitative discrete variable
A. fixed variable C. independent variable
B. dependent variable D. random variable 12. What do you call a portion or representative of population?
A. Parameter C. Sample
4. Which of the following is a discrete random variable? B. Population D. Statistic
A. the number of patients in a hospital
B. the average weight of female athletes 13. A randomly selected 400 students out of 9000 students at a
C. the average amount of electricity consumed university with 15-week semesters was asked whether or not they think
D. the amount of paint used in repainting a building the semester should be shortened to 14 weeks (with longer classes).
Forty-six percent (46%) of the 400 students surveyed answered "yes."
5. What are the possible values of a random variable when a coin is What is the sample?
tossed once? A. 400 students B. 15-week semesters
A. Tail (T) and Head (H) B. 9000 students D. 46% who answered “yes”
B. The number of dots 1,2,3,4,5,6
C. Tail and Tail (TT), and Head and Head (HH) 14. Which of following is true about the mean of the sample means?
D. The pair of even number of dots A. The mean of the sample mean is equal to the
(2,2),(2,4),(2,6),(4,2),(4,4),(4,6),(6,2),(6,4) and (6,6) population mean.
B. The mean of the sample mean is equal to the
6. Which statement is NOT true about the variance of a discrete population mean divided by the population
random variable? variance.
A. Variance is always nonnegative. C. The mean of the sample mean is equal to the
B. It tells the average of the items in a discrete probability square of population mean.
distribution D. The mean of the sample mean is equal to the
C. It measures how far apart the elements of the set are square root of population mean
spread out
D. High variance indicates that the data points are very 15. If P(x>98) = P(z>1.5), which of the following best illustrate the
spread out around the mean. critical region

7. What is “P(a<x<b)”?
A. The area to the left of a. C. The area between a and b
B. The area to the right of a. D. The area to the right of b.

8. Evaluate the score of the student in a biology test where the

equivalent z-score is 0.98. The mean of the test was 88 with a standard
deviation of 9.5.
A. 95 C. 97
B. 96 D. 98

9. The midterm examination scores in Statistics and Probability follows

a normal distribution with mean of 38 and a standard deviation of 2. If For numbers 16– 18, refer to the problem below:
Felix is included in the top 5%, what minimum score should Felix have? Luz scored 90 in English test and 70 in a Physics test.
P(z=1.63) =.4484 P(z=1.64) =.4495 P(z=1.65) = .4505 Scores in English test have a mean of 80 and standard deviation of 10.
A. 40 C. 42 Scores in Physics test have a mean of 60 and a standard deviation of
B. 41 D. 43 8.

16. What is the standard score of Luz in English?

a. 1 b. 1.25
c. 1.50 d. 1.75
17. What is her standard score in Physics? 27. Find the probability of getting 14 or more defective batteries.
a. 1 b. 1.25 a. 12. 2% b. 12.3%
c. 1.50 d. 1.75 c. 12.1% d. 12.89%

18. In which subject was her standing better, assuming that the scores For Items 28-30, consider the given tables below
in her English and Physics are normally distributed? Five "analysts" (A1. A2 A3 A4 A5) surveyed 75 students on their
a. Her standing in Physics is better than her standing in English. preferred brand of cellphones. The results are presented in Tables A
b. Her standing in English is better than her standing in Physics. and B.
c. Her standing in both in Physics and English were better.
d. The better standing cannot be determined. TABLE A
Cellphone A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 ഥ
𝒙
For Items 19-21, consider the situation below. Brand
According to the latest WHO data published on 2015 the average life Brand X 24 25 15 26 20 22.0
expectancy in the Philippines is 68.5 years. A random sample of 25 Brand Y 20 25 25 34 39 26.6
recorded deaths in Town A showed a mean life of 70 years with standard Brand Z 31 25 35 25 16 26.4
deviation of 7 years. Does this seem to indicate that mean life span in
Town A is not equal to 70 years? TABLE B
Cellphone Brand Mean Variance
19. Which is an alternative hypothesis of the problem? Brand X 22.0 0
A. μ<68.5 years Brand Y 26.6 3.2
B. μ> 68.5 years Brand Z 26.2 0.2
C. u= 68.5 years
D. u ≠68.5 years
28. Which table shows the preferred cellphone brand of the students?
A. Brand X C. Brand Z
20. Using the table of values below, what is the critical value for the
B. Brand Y D. None of the Above
problem?
29. In whose survey was Brand Y preferred more by the students?
Df/Two Tailed α 0.10 0.05 A. Analyst 1 C. Analyst 4
24 1.711 2.064 B. Analyst 2 D. Analyst 5
25 1.708 2.060
26 1.703 2.056 30. How would one know the percentage of the students who preferred
Brand Z over the other two brands?
A. 1.711 C. 2.064 A. Divide 39 by 75 and add 100
B. 1.708 D. 2.060 B. Divide 35 by 75 and multiply by 100
C. Subtract 35 from 75 and multiply by 100
21. What is the CORRECT interpretation of the results if the computed D. Add all results for Samsung of the 5 Analysts
value is 1.071?
A. The life span of Town A is significantly equal to 68.5 years. For Items 31-32, refer to the situation below.
B. The life span of Town A is significantly greater than 68.5 years
C. The life span of Town A is significantly less than 68.5 years. Isaiah wants to determine the 10th percentile for a t-distribution with 2
D. There is not enough information to draw a conclusion. degrees of freedom.

For Items 22-24, refer to the situation below. 31. Which table should he used to determine the required percentile?
Consider tossing two coins. List down the elements of the sample A. Binomial table
space. B. Chi-square table
C. t-table
22. What is the probability that both coins will land head? D. z-table
A. 1/8 C. 1/2
B. 1/4 D. 1 32. Which column will provide the needed value?
A. α = 0.001 C. α = 0.10
23. What is the average number that the head will land? B. α= 0.01 D. α = 1
A. 1/8 C. 3/2
B. 1/4 D. 1 33. Which of the following states that the sampling distribution of the
sample means approaches a normal distribution as the sample size gets
24. Which of the following is the CORRECT order to find the variance larger?
of a discrete random variable? A. Central Limit Theorem C. Limit Theorem
I. Subtract the mean from the value of the variable B. Law of Large Numbers D. Bayes Theorem
II. Square the difference of the value
III. Multiply the square of the difference of the value of the variable and 34. What happen to the histogram of the sample means of the random
the mean by the value of the variable. samples in Central Limit Theorem, as n→∞?
A. I-II-III A. It changes nothing from the original population.
B. I-III-II B. It shows the variance of the distribution.
C. III-I-II C. It shows the standard deviation of the distribution.
D. II-III-I D. It approaches the normality of the distribution.

For numbers 25 – 27, refer to the problem below: 35. The record of weights of the male population follows the normal
If 15% of the batteries produced daily by a company is defective, the distribution. Its mean and standard deviation are 70 kg and 15 kg
company decided to test and they randomly selected 70 batteries and respectively. If a researcher considers the records of 50 males,
finding 14 or more of them defective. what would be its standard deviation?
A. 2.11 C. 2.13
25. Find the value of the sample proportion 𝑝Ƹ . B. 2.12 D. 2.14
a. 0.2 b. 0.3
c. 0.4 d. 1 36. Which concept of random sampling distribution of the sample
means using Central Limit Theorem?
26. Find the value of z score. A. If you have a population mean µ and standard deviation
a. 1.17 b. 1.16 𝜎 and take sufficiently large random samples from the
c. 1.14 d. 2 population with replacement, then the distribution of the
 sample means will be approximately distributed D. As the degrees of freedom decreases, it approaches to
normally. standard normal distribution.
B. The probability of the simultaneous occurrence of two
events that are independent is given by the product of 45. Which of the following t is the t-value when µ= 127, 𝑥= 120, s=14
their individual probabilities. and n=18?
C. If you have a population mean µ and standard deviation A. -2.120 C. +2.110
𝜎 and take sufficiently large random samples from the B. -2.110 D. +2.120
population with replacement, then the distribution of the
sample means will be approximately distributed same as 46. In a t-distribution, if the sample size is 15, what is the degree of
the original population. freedom?
D. The larger the sample size n in sampling distribution of A. 12 C. 14
sample mean, the lesser the histogram is to show the B. 13 D. 15
normalcy of the distribution. 47. What percentile of the t distribution does 2.500 belong if the sample
size is 24?
37. What is the estimate, if sample size of random sampling using a. 80th C. 95th
Central Limit Theorem is almost normal in accordance to b. 90 th D. 99th
Statisticians?
a. If n= 2 c. If n= 10 48. Which of the following is the length of the interval between 45.5 and
b. If n= 3 d. If n= 30 60?
A. 10.5 C. 45.5
38. How do you compare the formula 𝑧 = 𝜎
𝑥ҧ −𝜇
from 𝑧 =
𝑥ҧ −𝜇
? B. 14.5 D. 60
ൗ
ξ𝑛
𝜎
49. The mean gasoline consumption of 15 cars is 38 liters with a
A. Formula is used when solving z from original population standard deviation of 2 liters. Using a 95% confidence level, how long is
while the latter is used in random sample. the interval of the sample mean?
B. Formula is used when solving z from random sample A. 2.25 C. 2.35
while the latter is used in original population. B. 2.30 D. 2.40
C. Formula is used in random sample and original
population but the latter can only be used for random 50. What is the needed sample size if the margin of error is 0.8 and the
sample. standard deviation is 8 with a 95% confidence level?
D. Both can be used alternatively. A. 325 C. 345
B. 335 D. 385
39. Which is NOT a correct statement?
A. The total probability distribution of the sample mean is 51. A researcher found that the mean score of Grade 9 students in the
always equal to 1. Math exam is normally distributed with a mean of 82 and a standard
B. There are 10 possible samples of size 3 drawn in the deviation of 2.5. The margin of error was known to be 0.65 at a 99%
population N = 5. confidence level. How large a sample must be?
C. There are 31 possible samples of size 3 drawn in the A. 90 C. 99
population N = 7. B. 92 D. 10
D. There are 20 possible samples of size 3 drawn in the
population N = 6. 52. Predict the length of the confidence interval and the sample size as
the confidence level increases.
40. Human gestation length is said to be normally distributed with a A. The length of the confidence interval decreases and the
mean of 266 days and a standard deviation of 16 days. Suppose 64 sample size increases.
pregnancies are randomly selected. What is the probability that the B. The length of the confidence interval increases and the
average gestation length is between 262 and 270 days sample size decreases.
A. 95.45% C. 95.75% C. The length of the confidence interval decreases and the
B. 95.50% D. 95.80% sample size decreases.
D. The length of the confidence interval increases and the
41. Formulate the steps to solve problems involving sampling distribution sample size increases.
of the sample mean.
I- Write the formula: 𝑧 = 𝜎
𝑥ҧ −𝜇
For numbers 53 – 54, refer to the problem below:
ൗ
ξ𝑛 Consider a population of four values (3, 4, 8, 9).
II- Solve z.
III- Look for the P(z) in the Standard Normal Distribution Table 53. Find the population mean.
IV- Substitute the values of the terms in the formula. a. 2 b. 4
A. I-IV-II-III c. 6 d. 8
B. IV-III-II-I
C. I-II-III-IV 54. Give the mean of the sampling distribution of means.
D. III-IV-I-II a. 3 b. 6
c. 9 d. 12
42. Given a set of data, which of the following refers to number of
independent observations that are free to vary after a sample statistic 55. If a population has a mean of 5.6 and population variance of 2, then
has been computed? find the mean of the sampling distribution of means.
A. Degrees of freedom a. 11.2 b. 3.6
B. Mean c. 2.8 d. 5.6
C. Standard error
D. Variance

43. The following are common properties of z-distribution and t-

distribution, except:
A. The mean, median, and mode are zero.
B. The total area under the curve is 100%.
C. The curve is asymptotic to the x-axis.
D. The variance is always greater than 1.

44. The following are characteristics of t-distribution except

A. It is symmetric about the mean 0.
B. It is bell-shaped but has a heavier tail.
C. It depends on the degrees of freedom.