4TH Quarter Examination

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

S.Y.2024-2025

DIRECTION: Encircle the letter of the best answer. Erasure is not allowed.

A 1. 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 null hypothesis of the problem?

B. 𝜇≥1.26 D. 𝜇<1.26

A 2. 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

A 3. 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

B 4. 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

A 5. 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

B 6. 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

C 7. 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.

B 8. 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.

D 9. 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
D 10. 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

C 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
A 12.What values are indicated at the base of a normal distribution?
a. z b. t c. s d. r
A 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. (2 decimal places)
a. ±2.58 b.±2.33 c.±1.96 d.±1.645

a. 2.60 b. -2.60 c. 2.59 d. -2.59

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
21.When =0.01, the critical values are:
α
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?
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 0.35¿0.42.What decision should
be made about H o .
a. Reject H o c. The sample proportion is greater than the population proportion
b. Accept o H 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 HO?
a. μ ≥ 24 b. μ ≤ 24 c. μ >24 d. μ = 24
A 31.Which scatter plot shows most likely a positive correlation?

I II
a. I only b. II only c. both I and II d. Neither
B 32.In terms of strength of association, how do you compare scatter plot I with II?

I II
a. The strength of association in scatter plot I is greater.
b. The strength of association in scatter plot II is greater.
c. The strength of association in both scatter plots is the same.
d. The strength of association in the scatter plots cannot be compared from the information.
33.Which shows the best estimate of the trend line?

a. b. c. d.
34.Which of the bivariate data are most likely positively associated?
I. The monthly income and the floor area of the residence of a family
II. The number of absences of a student and his academic performance
a. I only c. both
b. II only d. neither
35.Which of these mostly likely describes the correlation between grades in math and physics?
a. strong, positive c. weak, positive
b. strong, negative d. weak, negative
36.Which is the best estimate of the value of r for the data? The coefficient of correlation r is _____?
X 3 9 8 12 7
Y 4 1 6 2 8
a. less than 0.6 and positive
b. less than 0.6 but negative
c. greater than 0.6 and positive
d. greater than 0.6 but negative
37.The coefficient of correlation r between two bivariate data is -0.9, which best describes the
correlation?
a. There is no correlation because the computed r is negative.
b. The correlation is very high but negative.
 c. The correlation is very low but negative.
d. The strength of correlation is negligible.
For number 38, refer to the following situation:
Research shows that the emotional intelligence of a person is related to his/her academic
performance. Likewise, academic performance is related to job performance.
38.Which ordered pair of variables corresponds to the ordered pair (dependent, Independent)?
I. (job performance, academic performance)
II. (academic performance, intelligence)
a. I only c. both I and II
b. II only d. neither
For 39-40, use the situation below:
SA student conducted a regression analysis between the math grades of his classmates and the
number of times they were absent in the subject. He found that the regression line that will predict the
grade (y) if the number of absences (x) is known y=97.732-2.61x.
39.What is the predicted grade of a student who has no absences?
a. 93 c. 97
b. 98 d. 95
40.Which of the following shows the graph of the line predictor?

a. b. c. d.

II. Problem Solving:(40 pts.)

1. The following data shows the scores in Mathematics and Statistics.
Student Scores in Scores in
Mathematics Statistics
(X) (Y) X2 Y2 XY
A 7 8
B 12 9
C 10 10
D 9 8
E 3 5
TOTAL

a. Complete the table above.

b. Is there a relationship between the scores in Math and Statistics using Perason r ? What is
the value of r ? Interpret the value of r.

Prepared by: Checked by:

JOHN DENVER R. DE LA CRUZ EDMUND A.
BAUTISTA
TEACHER 1 HEAD
TEACHER IV

3 Bonus Points: Write one Hugot Line that are related to Mathematics
Example: “Alam mo para kang Mathematics, ang hirap mong intindihin”