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Situation 1: Given the data set {4, 3, 3, 4, 4}.

1. What is the mean?

a. 2.4 c. 3.0
b. 4.0 d. 3.6

2. What is the median?

a. 2.4 c. 3.0
b. 4.0 d. 3.6

3. What is the mode?

a. 2.4 c. 3.0
b. 4.0 d. 3.6

Situation 2: Given the data set

x Frequency
12 18
23 20
34 17
45 25
87 13
91 11
121 10

4. What is the mean?

a. 59.00 c. 50.18
b. 55.12 d. 62.50

5. What is the median?

a. 87 c. 23
b. 34 d. 45

6. What is the mode?

a. 87 c. 23
b. 34 d. 45

Situation 3: Shiela grew fifty baby carrots using special soil. She dig them up and measure
their lengths (to the nearest mm) and group the results:

Length Frequency
(mm)
150 – 154 5
155 – 159 2
160 – 164 6
165 – 169 8
170 – 174 9
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175 – 179 11
180 – 184 6
185 – 189 3

7. What is the estimated mean?

a. 170.6 mm c. 173.5 mm
b. 175.9 mm d. 171.7 mm

8. What is the estimated median?

a. 170.6 mm c. 173.5 mm
b. 175.9 mm d. 171.7 mm

9. What is the estimated mode?

a. 170.6 mm c. 173.5 mm
b. 175.9 mm d. 171.7 mm

MEASURE OF VARIATION (DISPERSION)

a) Range
b) Variance
c) Interquartile Range and Quartile Deviation
d) Mean/ Average Deviation
e) Standard Deviation
f) Lorenz Curve

Situation 4: Given the data set

x frequency
12 18
23 20
34 17
45 25
87 13
91 11
121 10
10. What is the population standard deviation?
a. 34.06 c. 36.09
b. 36.22 d. 34.21

11. What is the sample standard deviation?

a. 34.06 c. 36.09
b. 36.22 d. 34.21
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12. If the frequency of each datum (x) is 1, compute for the population standard deviation.
a. 40.29 c. 37.25
b. 37.75 d. 40.50

13. If the frequency of each datum (x) is 1, compute for the sample standard deviation.
a. 40.33 c. 40.78
b. 36.55 d. 36.90

Situation 5: Given the data set {50, 5, 12, 13, 15, 18, 22, 6}.

14. Determine the first quartile.

a. 9 c. 5
b. 12 d. 7

15. Determine the second quartile.

a. 18 c. 16
b. 11 d. 14

16. Determine the third quartile.

a. 21 c. 19
b. 20 d. 18

Situation 6: In an observation, the marks obtained are the following {20, 28, 40, 12, 30, 15,
50}.

17. What is the range?

a. 38 c. 50
b. 40 d. 35

18. What is the coefficient of range?

a. 0.566 c. 0.511
b. 0.778 d. 0.612

19. What is the interquartile range?

a. 12 c. 27
b. 25 d. 13

20. What is the difference between the midspread and middle fifty?
a. 1 c. -1
b. 0.5 d. 0

21. What is the coefficient of interquartile range?

a. 0.301 c. 0.515
b. 0.455 d. 0.125
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22. What is the quartile deviation?

a. 11.00 c. 12.50
b. 13.50 d. 15.75

23. What is the outlier?

a. 12 c. 50
b. 40 d. none

Situation 7: Refer to the table below.

MARKS NUMBER
OF
STUDENTS
10 4
20 7
30 15
40 8
50 7
80 2
24. Determine the range.
a. 60 c. 70
b. 80 d. 50

25. Determine the coefficient of range.

a. 0.33 c. 0.89
b. 0.67 d. 0.78

26. Determine the coefficient of interquartile range.

a. 0.33 c. 0.89
b. 0.67 d. 0.78
27. Determine the outlier.
a. 5 c. 80
b. 90 d. 10

28. Determine the quartile deviation.

a. 30 c. 20
b. 10 d. 40

Situation 8: Refer to the table below.

MARKS NUMBER
OF
STUDENTS
11 – 20 8
21 – 30 10
31 – 40 12
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41 – 50 8
51 – 60 6

29. What is the semi – interquartile range?

a. 17.09 c. 6.21
b. 10.38 d. 5.56

30. What is the class size?

a. 9 c. 11
b. 8 d. 10

31. What is the coefficient of interquartile range?

a. 0.3063 c. 0.7450
b. 0.5556 d. 0.8088

Situation 9: Given the data set {50, 5, 12, 13, 15, 18, 22, 6}.

32. Determine the 1st decile.

a. 13 c. 6
b. 5 d. 12

33. Determine the 6th decile.

a. 18 c. 15
b. 22 d. 13

34. Determine the 8th decile.

a. 13 c. 18
b. 50 d. 22

35. Determine the 9th decile.

a. 18 c. 22
b. 50 d. 15

36. Determine the 25th percentile.

a. 9 c. 5
b. 12 d. 7

37. Determine the 50th percentile.

a. 18 c. 15
b. 11 d. 14

38. Determine the 75th percentile.

a. 21 c. 19
b. 20 d. 18

39. Determine the 66th percentile.

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a. 24 c. 18
b. 29 d. 17

40. The relationship between expenditure on welfare services and absenteeism for similar
periods of time is shown below for a small company.

Expenditures(Php) 3.5 5.0 7.0 10 12 15 18

Days lost 241 318 174 110 147 122 86

Determine the coefficient of linear correlation for this data.

a. 0.91 c. -0.72
b. -0.83 d. 0.69

41. From the following tabulation compute the correlation coefficient.

X 80 84 88 92 98 104
y 4 8 10 8 12 14
a. 0.1111 c. 0.0889
b. 0.9217 d. 0.3451
42. A researcher carefully computes the correlation between two variables and gets r = 1.31.
What does this value mean?
a. positively correlated c. erroneous result
b. negatively correlated d. cannot defined

43. Suppose the attendance at a movie theatre averages 780 with a standard deviation of 40.
What is the z – score corresponds to an attendance of 835?
a. 2.018 c. - 1.375
b. - 2.018 d. 1.375

Situation 10: Given is a set of numbers {2, 4, 4, 5, 7, 8}.

44. What is the variance?

a. 6 c. 4
b. 7 d. 5

45. What is the relative variability?

a. 2/5 c. 3/7
b. 1 d. 3/4
46. What is the standard deviation?
a. 2.2 c. 2.6
b. 2.0 d. 2.4

47. Given is a set of numbers 2, 3, 6, 6, 7, 7, 9, 10, 13, 25, what type of distribution is it?
a. Unimodal c. Multimodal
b. Bimodal d. Unknown
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Situation 11: In a frequency distribution the average distance from the mean, y, is related to the
variable, x, by the equation y = 2x2 − 1.

48. Determine the mean value of the distribution for values of x from -1 to 4.
a. 7.7 c. 6.6
b. 5.5 d. 8.8

49. Determine the root mean square deviation value for values of x from -1 to 4.
a. 11.1 c. 13.3
b. 10.0 d. 12.2

Situation 12: The speed v of a vehicle is given by v = (4t +3) m/s, where t is the time in
seconds.

50. Determine the average value of the speed from t = 0 to t = 3 seconds.

a. 9 m/s c. 18 m/s
b. 36 m/s d. 27 m/s

51. Determine the root mean square deviation of the speed from t = 0 to t = 3 seconds.
a. 7.04 m/s c. 10.30 m/s
b. 9.64 m/s d. 8.89 m/s

52. The vertical height h km of a missile varies with the horizontal distance d km, and is
given by h = 4d − d2. Determine the mean height of the missile from d = 0 to d = 4 km.
a. 3.01 km c. 3.61 km
b. 2.67 km d. 2.09 km

Situation 13: A batch of 1500 lemonade bottles have an average content of 753 ml and the
standard deviation of the contents is 1.8 ml. If the volumes of the content are
normally distributed, find the number of bottles likely to contain:

53. less than750 ml

a. 63 c. 88
b. 50 d. 71

54. between 751 and 754 ml

a. 901 c. 754
b. 866 d. 693

55. more than757 ml

a. 19 c. 15
b. 12 d. 17

56. equal to 756 ml

a. 60 c. 84
b. 91 d. 77
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Situation 14: The table below refers to the masses of 50 copper ingots. The data is normally
distributed.

CLASS FREQUE
MID- NCY
POINT
VALUE
(KG)
29.5 2
30.5 4
31.5 6
32.5 8
33.5 9
34.5 8
35.5 6
36.5 4
37.5 2
38.5 1

57. Calculate the standard deviation.

a. 1.67 c. 2.95
b. 3.01 d. 2.12

58. Calculate standard error.

a. 0.1 c. 0.2
b. 0.3 d. 0.4

59. Calculate the upper-two standard deviation

a. 33.8 c. 34.0
b. 34.2 d. 34.4

60. Calculate the lower-two standard deviation.

a. 33.0 c. 33.2
b. 33.4 d. 33.8

Situation 15: A class of 40 students took an examination. The mean of their scores is 70 and the
standard deviation is 10.

61. If 10% of the class will be awarded with a grade of A, what is the minimum score a
student must get to have that grade?
a. 82.82 c. 83.12
b. 81.45 d. 84.03

62. If 25% of the class failed the exam, what should be the minimum score of a student in
order to pass?
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a. 60.32 c. 57.20
b. 67.55 d. 63.26