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Domingo Lacson National High School

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Sta. Clara Subdivision, Bacolod City
1st Semester – AY: 2022-2023

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

1ST Quarter Examination
Examinee: _____________________ Program: _________ Grade/Section: ________ Score: _______

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Read and understand the questions thoroughly.
2. Refrain from any conversation with your classmates during the examination proper.
3. Cheating of any kind is unacceptable and will be dealt with accordingly.

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE.
1. You are conducting a survey of the people of the United Kingdom to find out how popular the racket sports
are. You randomly choose people to call, and make 1,000 phone calls to people scattered across the country.
In this study, what is the statistics term for THE PEOPLE IN THE U.K., and what is the statistics term for
THE PEOPLE YOU CALLED?

A. Both the people of the U.K. and the people you called are POPULATIONS
B. The people of the U.K. are the POPULATION, and the people you called are the SAMPLE.
C. The people of the U.K. are the SAMPLE, and the people you called are the POPULATION.
D. Both the people of the U.K. and the people you called are SAMPLES.

2. You are interested in how stress affects heart rate in humans. Your dependent variable would be the _____.
A. Interest B. Heart rate C. Humans D. Stress

3. You are conducting a study to see whether a new experimental medication will cause bald men to grow
hair. You divide your patients into 2 groups. To one group you give the medication. To the other group, you
give a placebo. In this study, the correct terms for the taking of the medication and the growth of hair are the
following.

A. Both the medication and the hair growth are dependent variables.
B. Both the medication and the hair growth are independent variables.
C. The medication is the dependent variable, and the hair growth is the independent variable.
D. The medication is the independent variable, and the hair growth is the dependent variable.

4. Which of the following definitions is the definition of the MODE?

A. The MODE is the value that has the highest frequency.
B. The MODE is the average calculated by adding up all the values and dividing by the number of
entries.
C. The MODE is the largest value.
D. The MODE is the value that half of the entries are below and half of the entries are above.

5. Which of the following definitions is the definition of the MEAN?

A.The MEAN is the largest value.
B. The MEAN is the value that half of the entries are below and half of the entries are above.
C. The MEAN is the value that has the highest frequency.
D. The MEAN is the average calculated by adding up all the values and dividing by the number of entries.
6. Which of the following definitions is the definition of the MEDIAN?
A. The MEDIAN is the value that half of the entries are below and half of the entries are above.
B. The MEDIAN is the value that has the highest frequency.
C. The MEDIAN is the largest value.
D. The MEDIAN is the average calculated by adding up all the values and dividing by the number of entries.

7. What is the median of the following set of numbers? {12,8,13,4,7,6,3,3,15}.

A. 12 B. 8 C. 7 D. 7.5

8. What is the mode and the mean for the following set of numbers?{4,9,8,2,16,4,4,8,9,6}
A. Mean = 7, mode =8 B. Mean = 7, mode =4 C. Mean = 6, mode =8 D. Mean = 8, mode =9

9. The study finds that the mean amount spent on produce per visit by the customers in the sample is
Php 12.84. This is an example of what type of measurement?
A. population
B. sample
C. parameter
D. Statistic

10. The U.S. federal government conducts a survey of high school seniors concerning their plans for future
education and employment. One question asks whether they are planning to attend a four-year college or
university in the following year. Fifty percent answer yes to this question; that fifty percent is what type of
measurement?
A. parameter
B. statistic
C. variable
D. data

11. Which of these represent qualitative data

A. Height of a student
B. Liking or disliking of (500) persons of a product
C. The income of a government servant in a city
D. Yield from a wheat plot

12. The students divided into different groups according to their intelligence and gender will generate
A. Qualitative data
B. Quantitative data
C. Continuous data
D. Constant values

13. What percentage of measurements in a data set fall above the median?
A. 49% B. 50% C. 51% D. Cannot Be Determined

14. A researcher is studying students in college in Manila. She takes a sample of 400 students from 10
colleges. The average age of all college students in Manila is what type of measurement?
A. a statistic. B. a parameter. C. the median. D. a population

15. The two-way table below shows the survey results when sixty adults were asked whether they had made a
clothing purchase in the last thirty days.
MALE FEMALE
Of the adult males surveyed, what percentage had made a clothing
Purchased clothing in 10 29 purchase in the last thirty days?
the last 30 days A) 65% B) 35% C) 50% D) 33%
 Had not Purchased 10 11
clothing in the last 30

days

16. Which of the following divides a group of data into four subgroups?
A. Percentiles
B. Deciles
C. Median
D. Quartiles

17. Which of the following is not a disadvantage of using mean?

A. It is affected by extreme values
B. It cannot be computed in grouped data with open-ended class intervals
C. It does not possess the desired algebraic property
D. None of the above

18. Fifteen students wrote a math test and received the following grades:  89, 45, 78, 76, 73, 98, 73, 92, 88,
73, 100, 51, 64, 80, 95.To determine the mean: (APPROXIMATE)
A. 78 B. 80 C. 68 D. 15

Items 19-20 refer to the information below

The following scores were obtained by eleven footballers in a goal-shoot competition: 5 3 6 8 7 8 3 11 6 3 2.

19. What is the modal score of the given data?

(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 11

20. What is the median score of the given data?

(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 11

Items 21-23 refer to the graph below.

NUMBER OF PACKETS FOR POSTAGE HAVING A CERTAIN WEIGHT

21. How many packets were weighed?

(A) 9 (B) 14 (C) 65 (D) 92

22. How many packets were weighed?

(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 14

23. What is the modal weight?

(A) 9.9 kg (B) 10.1 kg (C) 10.2 kg (D) 10.5 kg

24. According to the following data table, which variable(s) is(are) categorical?
Age Gender Weight Ethnicity
A) Gender
23 1 180 1 B) Gender and ethnicity
18 0 126 0 C) None are categorical because there are only numbers in the table
D) Age, gender, and ethnicity
20 0 139 2
 19 1 154 1
20 1 202 3

25. A random variable say x, having some finite range of values is known to be a ____________.
A. Continuous random variable
B. Compound random variable
C. Discrete random variable
D. Transitive random variable
26. A national random sample of 20 ACT scores from 2010 is listed below.
Calculate the sample mean.
29, 26, 13, 23, 23, 25, 17, 22, 17, 19, 12, 26, 30, 30, 18, 14, 12, 26, 17, 18
A. 20.50
B. 20.50
C. 20.85
D. 20.85

27. The sum of the percent frequencies for all classes will always equal to?
A. One
B. the number of classes
C. the number of items in the study
D. 100

28. In a five number summary, which of the following is not used for data summarization?
A. the smallest value
B. the largest value
C. the median
D. the 25th percentile

29. Which statement best describes a parameter?

A) A parameter is a level of confidence associated with an interval about a sample mean or
proportion.
B) A parameter is a numerical measure of a population that is almost always unknown and must be
estimated.
C) A parameter is a sample size that guarantees the error in estimation is within acceptable limits.
D) A parameter is an unbiased estimate of a statistic found by experimentation or polling.

30. Which one of the following variables is not categorical?

A. Age of a person.
B. Gender of a person: male or female.
C. Choice on a test item: true or false.
D. Marital status of a person (single, married, divorced, other)

II. PROBLEM SOLVING: WRITE YOUR SOLUTIONS ON THE SPACE PROVIDED.

I have here an incomplete table taken from the scores of Grade 10 students. Fill out the missing
answers. Find Q3 and D7. INTERPRET RESULTS.

#9
#1 #2
#3
#6
#4 #5 #7
#8
#10