Directions: Read and analyze each item carefully.
Choose the best answer and
write it on the space before each number.
1. Which of the following values and percent illustrates the confidence interval?
A. 30.8 C. 92%
B. (35,39) D. 92% and 94
2. Which of the following symbols is used for the population standard deviation?
A. E C. n
B. μ or 𝑋̅ D.
3. Which of the following symbol stands for the margin of error?
Za B. E
A.
2 C. n
D.
4. For a 95% confidence level, the confidence coefficient is ± ____?
A. 1.645 C. 2.33
B. 1.96 D.2.58
5. What do you call the value resulting from adding the margin of error from the
sample mean?
A. point estimate C. lower limit of the interval
B. interval estimate D. upper limit of the interval
6. What do you call the value resulting from subtracting the margin of error from
the sample mean?
A. point estimate C. lower limit of the interval
B. interval estimate D. upper limit of the interval
for items number 7 – 10, refer to the scenario below
A survey of 200 Senior High School learners in Binangonan, Rizal shows that
they read on average 18.5 hours per week with a margin of error of 2.2 hours at
a 95% confidence level.
7. What is the sample mean?
A.200 C. 15.7
B. 18.5 D. 2.2
8. Which of the following values is the margin of error?
A.15.7 C. 0.95
B. 2.2 D. 0.05
9. Which of the following intervals is the confidence interval?
A. (18.5, 17.9) C. (135, 179)
B. (16.3, 20.7) D. (14.75, 16.65)
10. What is the upper limit of the interval?
A. 16.3 B. 17.9 C. 18.7 D. 20.7
11. Which of the following formulas is used to find L of the confidence interval?
za σ
A. L= 2 ( )
2 √n
za 1
B. L = 2 ( )
2 √n
za σ
C. L = 2 ( )
2 √x
σ
D. L= 2( )
√n
12. Which of the following formulas is used to find the margin of error?
za σ
A. E= ( )
2 √n
za 1
B. E = ( )
2 √n
za σ
C. E = ( )
2 √x
σ
D. E= 2( )
√n
13. Confidence coefficient or critical values expressed as ________________.
za
A. z B. zc C. D. L
2
for items number 14 – 15, refer to the scenario below
Isabel owns a shoe store in Brgy. Pantok. She used 160 pairs of shoes as her
samples for the different designs. The population standard deviation of the price
of the shoes is ₱75. Suppose that Isabel wants a 95% level of confidence to
determine the mean price of all her shoes she is selling.
14. What is the margin of error for his estimate?
A. 11.60 B. 11.61 C. 11.62 D.11.63
15. Which of the following values is the critical value to be used in the given
problem?
A. 1.44 B. 1.64 C. 1.75 D. 1.96
for items number 16 – 20, refer to the scenario below
Jennifer wanted to know the average price of shoes that her customer
purchased. She sampled 160 pairs of shoes that were sold and found out that
the mean average price is ₱800 with a standard deviation of ₱75. Construct a
95% confidence interval for the mean price of all shoes that were sold.
16. What is the margin of error for his estimate?
A. 11.60 B. 11.61 C. 11.62 D.11.63
17. Compute for the upper limit of the confidence interval.
A. 811.62 B. 812.62 C. 811.63 D.
811.6
18. Compute for the lower limit of the confidence interval.
A. 788.38 B. 788.39 C. 789.38 D.
789.3
19. Compute for the length of the confidence interval.
A. 23.44 B. 22.34 C. 24.5 D.
23.45
20. Which of the following values is the critical value to be used in the given
problem?
A. 1.44 B. 1.64 C. 1.75 D. 1.96
21. Which of the following formulas is used to get the sample size of the
population?
𝐴. n=¿)2
𝐵. n=¿)2
C. n=¿)
D. n=¿)2
22. When alpha is 0.01, confidence level is equal to _________.
A. 10% C. 90%
B. 95% D. 99%
23. Which of the following values illustrates confidence coefficients?
A. 99% C. 0.05
B. 1.96 D. 35.75
24. Confidence interval is also knowns as _____________________.
A. Interval estimate C. interval coefficient
B. confidence coefficient D. alpha
for items number 25 – 30 refer to the scenario below
An Environmentalist is making a survey on the number of households that
applies the principles of Waste Management in a certain community. Given the
standard deviation of 2.6, how large a sample must be selected if we want to be
95% confident of finding whether the true mean differs from the sample mean by
1.5 hour.
25. What is the given confidence level?
A. 95% C. 0.01
B. 0.10 D. 0.05
26. What is 𝛼?
A. 95% C. 0.01
B. 0.10 D. 0.05
27. What are the confidence coefficients?
𝐴. ±1.645 C. ±2.20
𝐵. ±1.96 D. ±2.58
28. Which of the following is the given population standard deviation?
A. 2 .6 C. 7
B. 2.58 D. 99%
29. What is the margin of error?
A. 1.5 B. 2.58 C. 7 D. 99%
30. Compute for the appropriate sample size.
A. 23 B. 21 C. 12 D. 11
31. The following are the factors to consider in the determination on sample size
EXCEPT for the __________.
A. Margin of error B. Level of confidence
C. confidence interval D. variance or standard deviation
32. The value of confidence coefficient (za/2) of 1.44 is used in sample size
determination if a researcher wants to be _______% confidence level that the
parameter is within the estimate.
A 99 B. 85 C. 92 D. 90
33. How does the level of confidence affect the sample size? (Consider that other
factors are constant)
A. The higher the level of confidence, the smaller the sample size
required. B. The lower the level of confidence, the larger the sample size
required.
C. The lower the level of confidence, the smaller the sample size required.
D. The sample size remains constant in every level of confidence.
34. Which of the following is NOT a factor that affects the sample size?
A. maximum error of estimate
B. confidence level
C. population standard deviation
D. parameter
35. How does the margin of error and sample size affect one another? (Assume
that the other factors are constant)
A. A smaller sample size reduces the margin of error.
B. A higher margin of error requires a larger sample.
C. A lower margin of error requires a larger sample size.
D. A small sample size results in a lower margin of error.
36. How does the standard deviation (𝜎) affect the sample size? (Assume that
the other factors are constant)
A. The sample size is constant for all values of 𝜎.
B. Lower 𝜎 reduces the required sample size.
C. Lower 𝜎increases the required sample size.
D. Higher 𝜎 decreases the required sample size.
37. A researcher wants his/her estimate with a minimum margin of error. Which
of the following is suggested?
A. reduce the sample size.
B. use a sample size of 30.
C. increase the sample size .
D. use a sample size of less than 25.
38. How large is the sample size required so that a researcher is 99% confident
with the estimate of a sample, of standard deviation 5, that the error will not be
more than 2?
A. 6 B. 13 C. 42 D. 84
39. If a 90% level of confidence is applied by the researcher in the condition
given in item #38, what sample size shall be obtained?
A. 8 B. 17 C. 27 D. 34
40. Compute for the appropriate sample size if the margin of error is 6, with a
sample standard deviation of 25 and a 90% level of confidence.
A. 48 B. 47 C. 49 D. 50
