Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region IV MIMAROPA
Division of Puerto Princesa City
STA. MONICA HIGH SCHOOL
Brgy. Sta. Monica, Puerto Princesa City
S.Y. 2022-2023
NAT REVIEWER IN STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Directions: Read and analyze each item. Choose the letter of the best answer and write it on your answer
sheet.
1. Which of the following statement/s BEST describe a Discrete Random Variable from a Continuous
Random Variable?
A. A Discrete random variable takes an infinite number of possible values while Continuous Random
Variable the data can take infinitely many values
B. A Discrete random variable which may take on only a countable number of distinct values such as
0,1,2,3,4 while Continuous Random Variable assume values that can be represented not only by
nonnegative whole numbers but also by fractions and decimals.
C. A Discrete random variable where the data can take infinitely many values while Continuous
Random Variable assume an infinite number of values in an interval between two specific values
D. A Discrete random variable is one that can take on finitely many, or countably infinitely many
values while Continuous Random Variable whose possible values form a finite or countable set.
X
2. If P(X) = 6 , what are the possible values of X for it to be a probability distribution?
A. 0, 2, 3 B. 1, 2, 3 C. 2, 3, 4 D. 1, 1, 2
3. Which formula gives the probability distribution shown by the table?
X 2 3 6
1 1 1
P(X)
2 3 6
1 X 6 1
A. P(X) = X B. P(X) = 6 C. P(X) = X D. P(X) = 6
For numbers 4-6, refer to the probability distribution shown below.
X 0 1 2 3
1 3 3 1
P(X)
8 8 8 8
4. What is the probability of Random Variable x = 2?
A. 1/8 B. 3/8 C. 0 D. 2/8
5. What is the probability of Random Variable x = 0?
A. 1/8 B. 3/8 C. 0 D. 2/8
6. What is the probability of Random Variable x = 3?
A. 1/8 B. 3/8 C. 0 D. 2/8
7. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?
A. The average amount of electricity consumed
B. The number of patients in a hospital
C. The amount of paint used in repainting a building
D. The average weight of female athletes
8. An urn contains 6 red marbles and 4 black marbles. Two marbles are drawn with replacement
from the urn. What is the probability that both of the marbles are black?
A. 0.16 B. 0.32 C. 0.36 D. 0.40
9. If two coins are tossed once, which is NOT a possible value of the random variable for the number of
heads?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3
10. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?
A. Length of wire ropes
B. Number of soldiers in the troop
C. Amount of paint used in repainting the building
D. Voltage of car batteries
11. How many ways are there in tossing two coins once?
A. 4 B. 3 C. 2 D. 1
12. Which of the following is NOT an example of a continuous random variable?
A. The weight of the professional wrestlers.
B. The area of Lots in an exclusive subdivision.
C. The number of dropouts in school per district
D. The speed of a car.
For No. 13
The probability distribution of the random variable T can be written as follows:
T 0 1 2
P(T) ¼ ½ ¼
13. Which of the following illustration of histogram BEST represent the given probability distribution table
above?
A. C.
B. D.
14. Given the population 1, 3, 6. What is the mean of the population?
A. 3 B. 3.1 C. 3.2 D. 3.3
15. What happens to a sampling distribution of the means when the sample size n increases?
A. It is skewed to the left.
B. It is skewed to the right.
C. It approaches a normal distribution.
D. Sample size does not affect the sampling distribution of means.
16. What does it implies if in a certain department store the computed mean of sales per day is 3.1?
A. The number of customers in department store is 3.1.
B. The number of items that the costumer will buy is 3.1.
C. The number of department store is 3.1.
D. The number of items that the store will buy is 3.1
For No. 17
17. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about Normal Curve shown above?
A. The curve of a distribution is bell-shaped.
B. It is symmetrical .
C. The three measures of central tendency are found in the center, therefore they are equal.
D. The standard deviation of the distribution determined the height of the curve.
18. Suppose we draw a card from a deck of playing cards. What is the probability that we draw a spade?
1 1 1 1
A. B. C. D.
2 3 4 5
19. A student goes to the library. The probability that she checks out (a) a work of fiction is 0.40, (b) a
work of non-fiction is 0.30, , and (c)both fiction and non-fiction is 0.20. What is the probability that
the student checks out a work of fiction, non-fiction, or both?
A. 0.3 B. 0.5 C. 0.2 D. 0.6
20. A teacher asked her students to fall in line. He instructed one of them to select every 4th student on the
line. What kind of sampling has been used by the teacher?
A. Simple Random Sampling C. Systematic Sampling
B. Stratified Sampling D. Cluster Sampling
21. Based on a sample of 900 elementary students from West Coast area, it was found out that 30% of them
could not do the long division. What does the given situation illustrate?
A. Statistic C. Sample
B. Parameter D. Population
22. You decide to collect a bunch of cans of soda and measure the volume of soda in each can. Let X equal
to the number of mL of soda in each can. What type of variable is X?
A. discrete random variable. C. not a random variable.
B. continuous random variable. D. constant.
23. Consider a population consisting of values (5, 10,15). List all possible samples of size 2 that can be
drawn from the population with replacement. What is the mean of the sampling distribution of the means?
A. u x̅ =5 B. u x̅ =10 C. u x̅ =15 D. u x̅ =20
For Numbers 24 – 25
Suppose that the average resting heart rate for men over 19 years old is 70 beats per
minute(bpm) with a standard deviation of 8bpm.
A School Principal is concerned that external stressors might be causing their students to have an
increased resting heart rate. Before investing in a consultant firm to investigate, the school
administration decided to take a sample of 65 male students to determine whether the average
resting heart rate was unusual. After conducting the survey, the school found a mean resting
heart rate of the students to be 72. What is the probability that a sample of 65 male students
would have a resting heart rate of 72 or more?
24. What it the population mean?
A. 8bpm B. 65 bpm C. 72bpm D. 70 bpm
25. What does 65 male students represent?
A. Population Mean C. Standard Deviation
B. Sample Size D. Sample Mean
26. A researcher is interested in the travel time of Utrecht University students to college. A group of 50
students is interviewed. Their mean travel time in 16.7 minutes. For this study the mean of 16.7
minutes is an example of a(n)
A. Parameter
B. Statistic
C. Population
D. Sample
27. A researcher is curious about the IQ of students at the Utrecht University. The entire group students is
an example of a:
A. Parameter
B. Statistic
C. Population
D. Sample
28. Statistical techniques that summarize and organize the data are classified as:
A. Population statistics
B. Sample statistics
C. Descriptive statistics
D. Inferential statistics
29. A sports psychologist was interested in the effects of a six-week imagery intervention on an athlete’s
ability to execute a sport-specific skills such penalty taking in football. How might you define the
imagery variable?
A. Independent variable
B. Dependent variable
C. Outcome variable
D. Resultant variable
30. Five-point Likert scales (strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree) are frequently used
to measure motivations and attitudes. A Likert scale is a:
A. Discrete variable.
B. Ordinal variable.
C. Categorical variable.
D. All of the above options (A, B and C)
31. In a 500m speed skating race, time results would be considered an example of which level of
measurement?
A. Nominal
B. Ordinal
C. Interval
D. Ratio
32. IQ tests are standardized so that the mean score is 100 for the entire group of people who take the
test. However, if you select a group of 50 who took the test, you probably would not get 100. What
statistical concept explains the difference between the two means?
A. Statistical error
B. Inferential error
C. Residual error
D. Sampling error
33. A researchers studies the factors that determine the number of children future couples decide to have.
The variable ‘number of children’ is a :
A. Discrete variable
B. Continuous variable
C. Categorical variable
D. Ordinal variable
34. A teacher asks students to identity their favorite reality television show. What type of measurement
scale do the different television shows make up?
A. Nominal
B. Ordinal
C. Interval
D. Ratio
35. The median is always:
A. The most frequently occurring score in a data set
B. The middle score when results are ranked in order of magnitude
C. The same as the mean
D. The difference between the maximum and minimum scores.
36. The seminar rooms in the library are identified by the letters A to H. A researcher records the number
of classes held in each room during the first semester. What kind of graph would be appropriate to
present the frequency distributions of these data?
A. Histogram
B. Scatterplot
C. Bar chart
D. Box plot
37. A set of scores is presented in a histogram. The histogram shows a series of bars that tend to
decrease in height from left to right. What is the shape of the distribution?
A. Leptokurtic
B. Positively skewed
C. Negativity skewed
D. Normal
38. What is the mean for the following scores: 2, 5, 4, 1, 8?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 20
39. What is the mean for the scores shown in the frequency distribution? Value f
A. 1.5 1 1
B. B. 3.0 2 3
C. 2.9 3 3
D. 5.8 4 2
5 1
40. What is the median for the following scores: 2, 5, 4, 1, 8?
A. 3.5
B. B. 4
C. 4.5
D. 7
41. A teacher gave a statistics test to a class of Geography students and computed the measures of
central tendency for the test scores. Which of the following statements cannot be an accurate
description of the scores?
A. The majority of students had scores above the mean.
B. The majority of students had scores above the median.
C. The majority of students had scores above the mode.
D. All of the above options (A, B and C) are false statements.
42. Which of the following sets of scores has the greatest variability ( range)?
A. 2, 5, 8, 11 C. 20, 25, 26 ,27
B. 13, 13, 13, 13 D. 42, 43, 44, 45
43. Which of the following statements is the most accurate description for the concept of standard
deviation?
A. The total distance from the smallest score to the highest score.
B. The square root of the total distance from the smallest score to the highest score.
C. The squared average distance between all scores and the mean.
D. The average distance between a score and the mean.
44. What is the variance for the following set of scores: 2, 2, 2, 2, 2.
A. 0 B. 2 C. 4 D.25
45. Normally distributed data are normally referred to as:
A. Bell-shaped B. Asymmetrical C. Skewed D. Peaked
46. Take the formula Z = (X – µ)/σ, where µ is the mean of the population, X is the value of the element, Z
is the z-score and σ is the standard deviation. What does this formula calculate?
A. Confidence interval. C. Standard error of the mean.
B. Standard score. D. Variance.
47. A population has a mean of μ=35 and a standard deviation of σ=5. After 3 points are added to every
score in the population, what are the new values for the mean and standard deviation?
A. μ=35 and σ=5 C. μ=38 and σ=5
B. μ=35 and σ=8 D. μ=38 and σ=8
48. Of the following Z-score values, which one represents the location closest to the mean?
A. Z=+0.5 B. Z=+1,0 C. Z=-1.5 D. Z=-0.3
49. If the scores on a test have a mean of 26 and a standard deviation of 4, what is the z-score for a score
of 18?
A. 2
B. 11
C. -2
D. –1.41
50. A population has a μ=50 and σ=10. If these scores are transformed into z-scores, the population of z-
scores will have a mean and standard deviation of:
A. μ=50 and σ=10
B. μ=50 and σ=1,96
C. μ=1 and σ=0
D. μ=0 and σ=1
