STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

SUMMATIVE EXAM
Testing Hypothesis

II. DIRECTIONS: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. What is a type of error wherein the null hypothesis is accepted when in fact it is false?
A. Type I error C. Type III error
B. Type II error D. Type IV error

2. The level of significance of a certain test is 0.05. What does this means?
A. The degree of certainty required to reject the alternative hypothesis in favor of the null hypothesis is 0.05.
B. The degree of certainty required to accept the null hypothesis over the alternative hypothesis is 0.05.
C. The degree of certainty required to reject the null hypothesis in favor of the alternative hypothesis is 0.05.
D. The degree of certainty required to reject both of the null and alternative hypotheses is 0.05.

3. In a certain hypothesis testing procedure the rejection region is 𝑧<−1.96. What does this mean?
A. The rejection region is composed of values found on the right side of −1.96 in a normal distribution.
B. The rejection region is composed of values found on the left side of −1.96 in a normal distribution.
C. The rejection region is the value −1.96.
D. The rejection region is composed of values greater than −1.96.

4. A shop owner claims that his shop earns an average of P10 000 a day with a standard deviation of P850. To
test this claim, a random sample of 40 operating days was tested and found that the mean is P10 450.
What is the z-score of the sample mean P 10 450?
A. 1.15 C. 2.48
B. 1.83 D. 3.35

5. A nutritionist wants to estimate the mean amount of junk food that is consumed by teenagers aged 11 to 14
years in a week. From a random sample of 50 teenagers, the mean amount of junk food consumption per
week is 250 g. What is the parameter in the problem?
A. random sample of 50 teenagers
B. ages of 11 to 14 years
C. mean amount of junk food consumption per week
D. mean amount of junk food consumption of teenagers aged 11 to 14 years
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6. The average weight of the whole chickens sold at Tumauini Market is 1.26 kg. A random sample of 40

A. 𝜇=1.26 C. 𝜇≠1.26
chickens shows that the mean weight is 1.34 kg. What is the alternative hypothesis of the problem?

B. 𝜇≥1.26 D. 𝜇<1.26

7. What is a type of error wherein the null hypothesis is rejected when in fact it is true.
A. Type I error C. Type III error
B. Type II error D. Type IV error

8. Given that 𝐻𝑜:𝜇=100 and 𝐻𝑎: 𝜇≠100, a researcher rejected the null hypothesis when 𝜇=100. What
type of error did the researcher commit?
A. Type I error C. Type III error
B. Type II error D. No error

9. Given that 𝐻𝑜:𝜇=100 and 𝐻𝑎: 𝜇≠100, a researcher accepted the null hypothesis when 𝜇=100. What
type of error did the researcher commit?
A. Type I error C. Type III error
B. Type II error D. No error

10. A school administrator claims that the mean IQ of all the students in their school is 126. A supervisor
wants to test this claim. In the hypothesis testing made by the supervisor, she rejected the null
hypothesis when the true population mean is 126. What type of error did the supervisor commit?
A. Type I error C. Type III error
B. Type II error D. No error

11.What do you call a continuous, symmetric, and bell-shaped distribution of a variable ?

a. graph b. pie graph c. normal curve d. line graph
12.What values are indicated at the base of a normal distribution?
a. z b. t c. s d. r
13.The area under the normal curve is:
a. 1 b. 0.99 c. 0.95 d. 0.5
14. In a standard normal distribution, the mean is and the standard deviation is .
a. 1,0 b. 0,1 c. 1,1 d. 0,0
15. In a standard normal distribution, what percent of the area falls below the mean?
a. 95% b. 90% c.80% d. 50%
16. What percentage of the area under the normal distribution lies within 1 standard
deviation below and 1 standard deviation above the mean?
a. 68% b. 90% c. 95% d. 99%
17. Under the normal distribution, what is the z-value that corresponds to an area of 0.4750?

18. Calculate the t-statistic for the following given 𝜇 = 12, 𝑋̅ = 15, s = 4, n = 12
a. ±2.58 b.±2.33 c.±1.96 d.±1.645

a. 2.6 b. -2.6 c. 2.5 d. -2.5

19. Which of these values is a parameter?
a. x b. t c. μ d. z
20.Which of the following are the 95% confidence coefficients?
a. ±1.645 b. ±1.96 c.±2.33 d.±2.58
α
21. When =0.01, the critical values are:
a. ±1.645 b. ±1.96 c.±2.33 d.±2.58
22. When n¿30 and the population standard deviation is not known, what is the
appropriate distribution?
a. z b. t c. r d. p
23. In a t- distribution, the critical values are based on:
a. n b. z c. t d. df
For nos. 24-26:
The mean gasoline consumption of 10 cars is 28 liters with a standard deviation of 1.6 liters.
Find the point and the interval estimates using 95% confidence interval level.
24. What is α ?
a. 95% b. 28 c.1.6 d..05
25. What is the appropriate distribution?
a. z b. t c. p d. s
26. What are the confidence coefficients?

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 a. ±1.96 b. ±2.26 c.±2.33 d.±2.58
27. This refers to an intelligent guess about a population proportion.
a. Hypothesis b. Test statistic c. Decision d. Interpretation
28. What mathematical model is appropriate for decision- making?
a. Graphical representation c. z-statistic
b. Normal curve d. None of these
28. In a z-test of proportions, the computed z lies in the rejection region. This means that:
a. The sample proportion is equal to the hypothesized proportion.
b. The sample proportion is equal to the population proportion.
c. The sample proportion is not equal to the hypothesized proportion.
d. The sample proportion is not equal to the population proportion.
29. In a one-tailed z-test of proportions, the comparative statement is p 0.35 q0.42.What
decision should be made aboutHo.
a. Reject Ho c. The sample proportion is greater than the population proportion
b. Accept Ho d. The sample proportion is less than the population proportion
30. A manufacturer of IT gadgets recently announced they had developed a new battery for a tablet and
claimed that it has an average life of at least 24 hours. What would be the H O?
a. μ ≥ 24 b. μ ≤ 24 c. μ >24 d. μ = 24

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