MULTIPLE CHOICE

QUESTIONS
IN ADVANCED
STATISTICS

Submitted by:
Jennelyn G. Malayno

Submitted to:
Mr. Anelito [Link]
Direction : Encircle the letter that corresponds to your answer.
1. Kyle said, “Karen’s glittering brown eyes catches the bottom of my heart”. The underline
words refer to what type of data?
 a. Nominal data b. Qualitative data
c. Quantitative data d. Both a and b
2. Speed is classified as what scales of measurement?
a. Nominal b. Ordinal
c. Interval d. Ratio
3. Suppose a researcher is concerned with a nominal scale that identifies users versus
nonusers of bank credit cards. The measure of central tendency appropriate to this scale
is the
a. Mean
b. Median
c. Mode
d. Average
4. Scores in the examination is an interval scale. What kind of measures of central
tendency can be applied in the underline words?
a. Mean b. Median
c. Mode d. All of the above
5. The following are the properties of the median EXCEPT one.
a. Can be applied in interval level b. Can be applied in ordinal level
c. Cannot be affected by the d. It may not be an actual
extreme values observation in data set
6. Which of the following discrete probability distribution satisfies the assumptions given
below?
I. Each trial has two possible outcomes, in the language of reliability called
success and failure.
II. The trials are independent.
III. On each trial, the probability of success is p and the probability of failure is 1−p
a. Binomial distribution
b. Geometric distribution
c. Bernoulli distribution
d. Negative binomial distribution
7. What is the difference between binomial distribution and negative binomial distribution?
a. In the binomial distribution the number of trials is a random variable while in
negative binomial distribution the number of trials is fixed.
b. In the negative binomial distribution the number of trials is a random
variable while in binomial distribution the number of trials is fixed.
c. In the binomial distribution the number of successes is fixed while in the
negative binomial distribution is a random variable
d. Both a and c
8. “If 5 cards are drawn without replacement, what is the probability that 3 hearts are
drawn?” is an example of
a. Binomial distribution
b. Geometric distribution
c. Hypergeometric distribution
d. Negative binomial distribution

For numbers 11-30, kindly refer to the table below.

The questions for numbers 11-15 are based on the following sample of ages of 18 respondents
in a survey: 36, 42, 18, 32, 22, 22, 25, 29, 30, 31, 19, 24, 35, 29, 26, 36, 24, 28.
9. What is the range of the data set?
a. 21
b. 22
c. 23
d. 24
 10. What is the median age of the respondents?
a. 28.2 b. 28.5
c. 30.5 d. 31
11. What is the mean of the data set?
a. 28.2 b. 28.5
c. 30.5 d. 31
12. What is the mode of the data set?
a. 22
b. 25
c. 36
d. Both a and c
13. The interquartile range for this data set is
a. 8
b. 12
c. 16
d. 18
14. What is the variance of the distribution?
a. 39.20
b. 40.22
c. 41.24
d. 42.26
15. The standard deviation of the age of the respondents is
a. 5.42
b. 6.42
c. 7.42
d. 8.42
The questions for numbers 16-20 are based from the group data given below.

Time to travel to work frequency

1-10 8
11-20 14
21-30 12
31-40 9
41-50 7
16. The class interval of the data is
a. 10
b. 11
c. 12
d. 13
17. What is the mean of the data?
a. 22.1
b. 23.1
c. 24.1
d. 25.1
18. The median of the data is
a. 22
b. 23
c. 24
d. 25
19. The mode of the data is
a. 17.5
b. 18
c. 18.5
d. 19
20. What is the range of the data?
a. 30
 b. 40
c. 50
d. 60
21. What is the value of the first quartile?
a. 13. 7143
b. 14. 7153
c. 15.2653
d. 16. 2653
22. What is the value of the third quartile?
a. 34.3889
b. 35.3879
c. 36.3989
d. 37.3889
23. What is the quartile deviation of the data?
a. 9. 3223
b. 10.3373
c. 11.3544
d. 12.3677
24. In an examination, the mean grade is 90 and the standard deviation is 5. What is the z-
score of Kyle’s grade if he got 88 in Advanced Algebra?
a. 0.2
b. -0.3
c. 0.4
d. -0.4
25. What is the t-score of the problem in number 23?
a. 42
b. 44
c. 46
d. 48
26. “Find the probability of getting a head in a single toss of a coin.”, this question is an
example of
a. Binomial distribution
b. Geometric distribution
c. Bernoulli distribution
d. Negative binomial distribution
27. Which discrete probability distribution satisfy the following conditions:
I. The trials are independent.
II. Each trial can result in one of two possible outcomes, success and failure.
III. The probability of success is the same for all trials.
a. Binomial distribution
b. Geometric distribution
c. Bernoulli distribution
d. Negative binomial distribution
28. You are taking a 10 question multiple choice test. If each question has four choices and
you guess on each question, what is the probability of getting exactly 7 questions
correct?
a. 0.0020
b. 0.0021
c. 0.0030
d. 0.0031
29. According to Mediamark Research Inc. 86% of all U.S households own a cellular phone
(one or more). In a random sample of 20 households, what is the probability that exactly
15 own a cellular phone?
a. 0.0668
b. 0.0768
c. 0.0868
d. 0.0968
 30. In binomial probability distribution, success and failure generated by trial is respectively
denoted by
a. p and q
b. a and b
c. p + q
d. p - q
31. If sample size is 6 and population is 50 from which it is drawn without replacement and
elements for success are 22 then variance of hypergeometric probability distribution is
a. 1.388
b. 2.388
c. 3.388
d. 4.388
32. If number of trials are 8 and probability of success are 0.65 then mean of negative
probability distribution is
a. 8.65
b. 12.31
c. 5.2
d. 7.35
33. If total number of elements with some specific characteristics is 18 from a population of
40 and sample is drawn without replacement with size of 4 then mean of hyper
geometric probability distribution is
a. 4.8
b. 1.8
c. 2.8
d. 3.8
34. If chances of success in a distribution are 0.68 and number of values in distribution are 4
then mean of Poisson probability distribution is
a. 3.72
b. 1.72
c. 2.72
d. 4.72
35. If trial is repeated 6 times and chances of success for desired outcome is 0.75 then
variance for negative probability distribution is
a. 4.67
b. 2.67
c. 3.67
d. 5.67
36. Probability distribution having shape of bell and in which values of mean lies in center of
probability distribution is classified as
a. continuous distribution
b. normal distribution
c. discrete distribution
d. hyper geometric distribution
37. Considering normal distribution, spread is decreased and height of curve is increased for
the
a. larger value of standard deviation
b. smaller value of standard deviation
c. smaller value of variance
d. larger value of variance

The questions for numbers 38-39 is based from the question below.

Among employed women, 25% have never been married.

38. What is the probability that we find the first never-married woman within the first 5 we
sample?

a. 0.1875
b. 0.1876
 c. 0.1877
d. 0.1878
39. What is the probability that we sample at most 2 women before finding one who has
never been married?
a. 0.0791
b. 0.0792
c. 0.0793
d. 0.0794
40. A life insurance salesman sells on the average 3 life insurance policies per week.
Assuming that there are 5 working days per week, what is the probability that in a given
day he will sell one policy?
a. 0.34929
b. 0.33929
c. 0.32929
d. 0.31929

For numbers 41-44, kindly refer to the given problem below.

An oil company conducts a geological study that indicates that an exploratory oil well should
have a 20% chance of striking oil.

41. What is the probability that the first strike comes on the third well drilled?
a. 0.128
b. 0.228
c. 0.328
d. 0.428
42. What is the probability that the third strike comes on the seventh well drilled?
a. 0.049
b. 0.059
c. 0.069
d. 0.079
43. What is the mean of the number of wells that must be drilled if the oil company wants to
set up three producing wells?
a. 13
b. 14
c. 15
d. 16
44. What is the variance of the number of wells that must be drilled if the oil company wants
to set up three producing wells?
a. 50
b. 60
c. 70
d. 80
45. A graduate statistics course has seven male and three female students. The professor
wants to select two students at random to help her conduct a research project. What is
the probability that the two students chosen are female?
a. 0.067
b. 0.77
c. 0.87
d. 0.97
46. What is the probability of drawing 3 clubs in 5 cards without replacement from 5200
cards (1300 clubs and 3900 non clubs). ( Use the hypergeometric distributions)
a. .087834
b. .077834
c. .087834
d. .097834
47. Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between a parameter
and a statistic?
a. A parameter has a sampling distribution with the statistic as its mean.
b. A parameter has a sampling distribution that can be used to determine what
values the statistic is likely to have in repeated samples.
c. A parameter is used to estimate a statistic.
d. A statistic is used to estimate a parameter.
48. Which statement is not true about the 95% confidence level?
a. Confidence intervals computed by using the same procedure will include the true
population value for 95% of all possible random samples taken from the
population.
b. The procedure that is used to determine the confidence interval will provide an
interval that includes the population parameter with probability of 0.95.
c. The probability that the true value of the population parameter falls
between the bounds of an already computed confidence interval is roughly
95%.
d. If we consider all possible randomly selected samples of the same size from a
population, the 95% is the percentage of those samples for which the confidence
interval includes the population parameter.
49. A randomly selected sample of 400 students at a university with 15-week semesters was
asked whether or not they think the semester should be shortened to 14 weeks (with
longer classes). Forty-six percent (46%) of the 400 students surveyed answered "yes."
Which one of the following statements about the number 46% is correct?
a. It is a sample statistic.
b. It is a population parameter.
c. It is a margin of error.
d. It is a standard error.
50. A description of how the probabilities are distributed over the values the random variable
can assume is called a
a. probability distribution
b. probability function
c. random variable
d. expected value