1.

The following are the area distribution patterns of a normal curve except
A. The total area under the curve is one and three tenths.
B. About 68% of the area under the curve falls within 1 standard deviation.
C. About 95% of the area under the curve falls within 2 standard deviations
D. About 99.7% of the area under the curve falls within 3 standard deviation

2. What probability each face of a die will come out?

1 1 1 1
A. B. C. D.
8 4 6 2
3. Which of the following is a continuous random variable?
A. the number of candies in a jar
B. the distance travelled between classes
C. the number of students present
D. the number of pebbles in an urn

4. Which of the following statements is true in normal distribution?

A. It has two parameters: a mean and a standard deviation.
B. Half of the values are greater than the mean.
C. It goes to infinity in both directions.
D. All of the above
E.
5. If the z-score is negative, then
A. we can conclude that corresponding raw score is below the group mean or less than
average.
B. we can conclude that corresponding raw score is above the group mean or greater than
average
C. it is the baseline of a normal curve.
D. its corresponding area/region can also be negative.

6. A random variable that has countable set of possible outcome.

A. Discrete
B. Continuous
C. Countable
D. Uncountable
7. To compute the mean of given raw scores in a test is to get the _______
A. total B. value C. average D. sum
8. The following are properties of the mean in a normal curve except
A. It is equal to 0.
B. It is located at the center of the normal curve.
C. It is where median and mode coincides on same point.
D. It determines the skewness of the curve.

9. The following are probability notation except

A. P (a < z < b)
B. P (a > z > b)
C. P (z > a)
D. P (z < a)

10. The average precipitation for the first 7 months of the year is 19.32 inches with a standard deviation
of 2.4 inches. Assume that the average precipitation is normally distributed. What is the average
precipitation of 5 randomly selected years for the first 7 months?
19.32 inches B. 22.4 inches C. 20.52 inches D. 15.56 inches
11. What is the total area of the region between z = -3 and z = 2 in a normal curve?
A. 0.9759 B. 0.9841 C. 0.0215 D. 0.0113

12. Find the area of the normal curve between z = -0.92 and z = 1.05
0.319 B. 0.329 C. 0.6743 D. 0.6843

13. Ria receives the following scores on her math tests: 78, 92, 83, 99 . What score
does she need on the next test in order to have an average of 90 on her math tests?
A.90 B. 85 C. 98 D.70

14. The average grade on a certain mathematics test in normal distribution is 80 with a standard
deviation of 8. If 10% got the highest grades, find the lowest possible grade.
A. 85 B. 90 C. 92 D. 95
15. What is the probability of getting a face card in a well-shuffled deck?
A. 0.12 B. 0.23 C. 0.34 D. 0.6
16. A population of measurements is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 25
and a variance of 9. Find the probability that a measurement selected at
random will be between 19 and 31.
A. 0.4772 B. 0.6742 C. 0.9544 D. 0.9974

17. Calculate mean of random variable for the given probability distribution P(0)= 0.5470, P(1)=
0.3562, P( 2 )=0.0870, P(3)= 0.0094, and P(4)=0.0004. (note: express the result in 2 decimal places)
A. 0.41 B. 0.56 C. 0.66 D. 0.75

18. Which of the following statement is true about variance?

A. It can be described as the expected value of the square of the difference between the
random variable and the mean.
B. Its value can be negative.
C. It has no alternative formula in determining its value.
D. It represents the difference between standard deviation and the mean associated with
specific sets of measurement values

19. It is a descriptive measure of the relationship of a measurement to the rest of the data.
A. Z- scores B. Z-value C. Percentile D. Decile
20. It is used to determine a certain area/region under normal curve.
A. T-table B. T-Test C. z-Table D, z-test

21. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a normal curve?

A. Bell-shaped C. symmetric about its center
B. not asymptotic to the baseline D. Area under the curve is 1

22. What is the formula for variance of probability distribution?

A. 𝜇 = Σ𝑋. 𝑃(𝑋) B. 𝜇 = Σ𝑋 2 . 𝑃(𝑋) C. 𝜎 2 = Σ(𝑋 − 𝜇)2 . 𝑃(𝑋) D. 𝜎 = √ Σ(𝑋 − 𝜇)2 . 𝑃(𝑋)

23. A normally distributed population of test scores has a mean of 80 and a standard
deviation of 5.2. Find the z-score that lies below 73.
A. -1.35 B. -1.53 C. 2.17 D. 3.12

24. Which formula gives the probability distribution shown by the table?
A. P(X)=
1 X P(X)
2
1 1 1
B. P(X)=
𝑥 3 1/3
1
C. P(X)= 5 1/5
3
1
D. P(X)= 6 1/6
𝑥+1

For nos. 25-26. Use the probability distribution below.

X 1 2 3 4 5
P(X) 𝑥+1 𝑥+1 𝑥+1 𝑥+1 𝑥+1
20 20 20 20 20

_______25. Find the mean.

A. 2.5 B. 2.75 C. 3.5 D. 4.25
_______26. Find the variance.
A. 1.35 B. 1. 75 C. 14 D. 14.15

27. . IQ scores of adults are normally distributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.
Find the probability that a randomly selected adult will have an IQ between 85 and 125.
A. 0.79 C. 0.89
B. 0.81 D. 0.93

28. Which of the following rule states that almost all data fall within the 1, 2 and 3 of standard
deviation of mean when the population is normally distributed?
A. empirical rule C. Lottery rule B. Pascal’s triangle rule D. Sampling rule
29. What will you do to find the area between the two z values?
A. Subtract the obtained value from the Z table to 1
B. Rewrite the value obtained from z table
C. Subtract the two obtained value from the z table.
D. Calculate the mean and standard deviation

30. What is the area of the normal curve to the left of the mean?
A. -0.3413 B. 0.3413 C. -0.1359 D. 0.1359