STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

1st Quarter Examination

Grade 11 GAS/HUMSS/TVL

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: Choose a letter that corresponds to the correct answer.

Write the letter of your choice in a clean sheet of paper.

1. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?

A. The number of patients in a hospital
B. The average weight of female athletes
C. The average amount of electricity consumed
D. The amount of paint used in repainting a building
2. If two coins are tossed, which is not a possible value of the random variable for
the number of heads?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3
3. Which of the following is not a true statement?
A. The value of a random variable could be zero.
B. The probability of the value of a random variable could be zero.
C. The sum of all the probabilities in a probability distribution is always equal to
one.
D. Random variables can only have one value.
4. Which formula gives the probability distribution shown by the table?
X 2 3 6
P(x) ½ 1/3 1/6

1
A. P(x) = 𝑥
𝑥
B. P(x) = 6
6
C. P(x) = 𝑥
1
D. P(x) = 6
𝑥
5. If P(x) = 6, what are the possible values of X for it to be a probability distribution?
A. 0,2,3
B. 1,1,2
C. 1,2,3
D. 2,3,4
For number 6-8, refer to the probability distribution shown below.

X 0 1 2 3
P(x) 1/8 3/8 3/8 1/8
6. What is the mean of the probability distribution?
A. 1.2
B. 1.5
C. 1.6
D. 1.8
7. What is the variance of the probability distribution?
A. 0.50
B. 0.75
C. 1.00
D. 1.25
8. What is the standard deviation of the probability distribution?
A. 0.71
B. 0.87
C. 1.00
D. 1.12
For numbers 9-10, refer to the probability distribution shown below.
x 0 2 4 6 8
P(x) 1/5 1/5 1/5 1/5 1/5
9. What is the mean of the probability distribution?
A. 1.5
B. 2.0
C. 3.5
D. 4.0
10. What is the variance of the probability distribution?
A. 4.15
B. 6.35
C. 7.50
D. 8.00
11. Which of the following is an example of continuous random variable?
A. The number of books in the library
B. The lifetime in hours of 15 flashlights
C. The number if tourist each day in a museum
D. The weight of Grade 1 pupils
12. If a normal distribution has a mean of 35 and a standard deviation of 10, then
A. the median is 45 and the mode is 25.
B. the median is 35 and the mode is 45.
C. the median is 25 and the mode is 45.
D. the median is 35 and the mode is 35.
13. Find the probability P(0 < z < 1.67), using the standard normal distribution.
A. 35.54%
B. 42.07%
C. 45.25%
D. 45.54%
14. Which of the following properties distinguishes the standard normal distribution
from other normal distributions?
A. The mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1.
B. The total area under the curve is equal to 1.00.
C. The mean is located at the center of the distribution.
D. The curve is continuous.
15. Find the probability P(0.16 < z < 1.23) using the standard normal distribution.
A. 0.8271
B. 0.3600
C. 0.6729
D. 0.3271
16. Find the area under the standard normal curve to the left of z = 1.5.
A. 0.4332
B. 0.9332
C. 0.4666
D. 0.0668
17. In a standard normal distribution, what z value corresponds to 17% of the data
between the mean and the z value?
A. 0.44
B. 1.25
C. 2.10
D. 0.52
18. Find the z value that corresponds to the given area.
A. 0.07
B. 1.23
C. 1.46
D. –1.46
19. One normal curve has a mean of 24 and a standard deviation of 3. A second
normal curve has a mean of 3 and a standard deviation of 24. The curve that is
more dispersed, or spread out, is
A. neither; by definition,a normal curve shows no spread.
B. both; they are equally spread out.
C. the second normal curve.
D. the first normal curve.
20. Find the z value that corresponds to the given area.
A. –0.22
B. 1.33
C. –0.51
D. 0.41
21. Which choice is another term that can be used to describe a normal distribution:
A. bell curve
B. independent variable
C. negatively or positively skewed
D. discrete distribution
22. For a normal distribution curve with a mean of 15 and a standard deviation of 5,
which range of the variable defines an area under the curve corresponding to a
probability of approximately 68%?
A. from 12.5 to 17.5
B. from 10 to 20
C. from 5 to 25
D. from 15 to 25
23. The number of standard deviations a particular X value is from the mean is
commonly referred to as___ .
A. µ
B. p(x)
C. σ2
D. 𝒛
24. Identify the type of distribution pattern that occurs when the majority of the data
values fall to the left of the mean?
A. negatively skewed
B. left skewed
C. positively skewed
D. Symmetrical
25. Find the z-score for which the area to the right is 0.27. 2
A. 0.82
B. 0.52
C. 0.34
D. 0.61
26. Which of the following characteristics do normal and uniform distributions have in
common?
A. the distributions is symmetric and the mean is equal to the median
B. the mean is equal to the median and the range is infinite
C. the distributions is symmetric and the range is infinite
D. the distributions s symmetric and all values are equally likely
27. Let x be a normal random variable with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of
3. A z score was calculated for x, and the z score is -1.2. What is the value of x?
A. 0.1151
B. 0.8849
C. 46.4
D. 53.6
28. What percentage of a normal distribution is found within a range of z scores from
-2 to +2?
A. 85%
B. 90%
C. 95%
D. 99%

29. The percentile rank of Jessica’s score on a language exam was 73. This value
indicates ___.
A. Jessica obtained a score of 73 out of 100 on the exam
B. 27 percent of the scores were less than Jessica’s
C. 73 percent of the scores on the exam were equal to or greater than Jessica’s.
D. 73 percent of the scores were equal to or less than Jessica’s.
30. If the 57th percentile on an examination is 74, then _____
A. 57 percent of the scores on the exam were 74 or less.
B. 57 percent of the scores on the exam were 74 or higher.
C. 43 percent of the scores on the exam were 74 or less.
D. 43 percent of the scores on the exam were 74 or higher.