Sample Statistics and Probability
Questions for DLSU College Entrance
Test
1. What is the mean of the following data set: 12, 15, 20, 18, 25?
A. 17
B. 18
C. 20
D. 22
Answer: C
2. The median of the set {5, 8, 12, 13, 20, 21, 25} is:
A. 12
B. 13
C. 20
D. 21
Answer: B
3. Which measure of central tendency is most affected by outliers?
A. Mean
B. Median
C. Mode
D. Range
Answer: A
4. The mode of the scores {2, 3, 5, 3, 7, 9, 3, 6} is:
A. 2
B. 3
C. 6
D. 9
Answer: B
5. What is the approximate standard deviation of these scores: 88, 90, 75, 80, 92, 85, 78, 94,
81, 89?
A. 5.3
B. 6.2
C. 7.1
D. 8.0
Answer: B
6. What percentile is the 8th value in a ranked data set of 20 items?
A. 40th
B. 45th
C. 50th
D. 60th
Answer: D
7. If the average score of five students is 84 and four students scored 82, 85, 88, and 79,
what did the fifth student score?
A. 83
B. 84
C. 86
D. 87
Answer: C
8. What is the range of this data set: {10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 30}?
A. 20
B. 15
C. 10
D. 30
Answer: A
9. If the variance of a data set is 25, what is the standard deviation?
A. 5
B. 10
C. 2.5
D. 6
Answer: A
10. The interquartile range (IQR) is the difference between:
A. Max and Min
B. Q3 and Q1
C. Mean and Mode
D. Median and Q1
Answer: B
11. Which graph is best for displaying frequency distributions of categorical data?
A. Histogram
B. Line Graph
C. Bar Graph
D. Scatterplot
Answer: C
12. If the mean height is 160 cm with SD = 5 cm, what % fall within one SD (normal curve)?
A. 68%
B. 75%
C. 95%
D. 99.7%
Answer: A
13. A box-and-whisker plot is used to display:
A. Frequencies
B. Percentiles
C. Five-number summaries
D. Variance
Answer: C
14. If a histogram is skewed to the right, the mean is likely to be:
A. Less than median
B. Equal to mode
C. Greater than median
D. Zero
Answer: C
15. In a stem-and-leaf plot, the "stem" typically represents:
A. Ones place
B. Tenths
C. Leading digits
D. Zeros
Answer: C
16. What is the probability of getting a head when a coin is tossed once?
A. 1
B. 0
C. 0.5
D. 0.25
Answer: C
17. A die is rolled. What is the probability of getting an even number?
A. 1/6
B. 1/2
C. 1/3
D. 2/3
Answer: B
18. Two cards are drawn from a deck without replacement. Probability both are aces?
A. 1/221
B. 1/52
C. 1/13
D. 1/663
Answer: A
19. A bag contains 4 red, 3 blue, 3 green balls. Probability of red?
A. 0.4
B. 0.3
C. 0.25
D. 0.1
Answer: A
20. Probability of getting sum of 7 with two dice?
A. 1/12
B. 1/6
C. 1/9
D. 1/36
Answer: B
21. A coin is tossed 3 times. Probability of exactly two heads?
A. 1/8
B. 3/8
C. 1/2
D. 5/8
Answer: B
22. Box: 2 red, 2 blue, 2 black pens. Probability of drawing a blue pen?
A. 1/6
B. 1/3
C. 1/2
D. 2/3
Answer: B
23. Probability of selecting a prime number from 1 to 10?
A. 0.2
B. 0.3
C. 0.4
D. 0.5
Answer: D
24. In a class of 30: 18 like Math, 15 English, 10 both. Probability a student likes at least
one?
A. 23/30
B. 28/30
C. 25/30
D. 20/30
Answer: A
25. If P(A)=0.5, P(B)=0.4, A and B independent, P(A and B)?
A. 0.2
B. 0.9
C. 0.1
D. 0.4
Answer: A
26. A 3-digit password with no repeats. Probability?
A. 0.72
B. 0.81
C. 0.9
D. 0.84
Answer: A
27. Complement of event "rolling a 6" on die?
A. 1/6
B. 5/6
C. 1/2
D. 1/3
Answer: B
28. If rain probability is 0.3, probability of no rain?
A. 0.7
B. 0.5
C. 0.3
D. 0.2
Answer: A
29. Flip two coins. What is the sample space?
A. {HH, HT, TH, TT}
B. {H, T}
C. {HH, TT}
D. {H, T, HT, TH}
Answer: A
30. Which are mutually exclusive events?
A. King & Red
B. Queen & King
C. Red & Face card
D. Spade & Queen
Answer: B
