ASSESSMENT 1 – PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS – GRADE 11

Directions: Choose the best answer from the four options 9. It refers to a mapping or listing of all values of a random
given. Write the letter of the best answer on your paper. variable to their corresponding probabilities for a given sample
space.
1. Which is NOT TRUE about Discrete Random Variable? a. Random Distribution c. Random Variance
a. assumes that values can be counted b. Random Variability d. Random Variable
b. can take only a fix number of distinct values
c. involves measurement of the given values 10. The following are the properties of probability distribution,
d. none of the above EXCEPT:
a. The probability of each value of the random variable
2. Which is NOT TRUE about Continuous Random Variable? must be between or equal to 0 and 1. In symbol, we write it as
a. can take only a countable number of distinct values 0 ≤ P(X) ≤ 1.
b. its values are obtained through measurement b. The sum of the probabilities of all values of the
c. the sample space is finite random variable must be equal to 1. In symbol, we write it as
d. none of the above ∑P(X)=1.
c. The probability of each value of the random variable
3. Which of the following is an example of a continuous must be exactly 0 or 1.
random variable? d. None of the above
a. number of passengers inside the bus
b. height of a Grade 11 female student 11. Which of the following value of X will satisfy a discrete
c. number of 5-peso coins contained in a purse probability distribution?
d. number of Senior High School Teachers in Sangab
National High School
a. X = 0.81 b. X = 0.82 c. X = 0.83 d. X = 0.84
4. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?
a. number of used masks thrown each day 12. Which of the following value of X will satisfy a discrete
b. the amount of water required to drink every day probability distribution?
c. the height of Mary’s dog named Berlin
d. the weight of your father during his teenage years
a. X = 1/5 b. X = 1/4 c. X = 1/3 d. X = 1/2
5. Which DOES NOT belong to the following?
a. outcomes in rolling a pair of dice
13. What is the probability of getting no tails when three coins
b. the number of DVD monthly sales in a Video Center
are tossed?
c. water temperatures of ten rivers in the Philippines on a
a. 1/8 b. 1/16 c. 1/4 d. 1/64
given day.
d. Student enrollment in a certain University
14. When two dice are tossed asynchronously, what is the
probability of getting the sum of 6?
6. Which DOES NOT belong to the following?
a. 1/9 b. 1/18 c. 1/36 d. 1/72
a. amount of time spent surfing the internet per week
b. the tire pressures of automobiles
15. Find the possible value of random variable of tossing a
c. the time between passengers arriving at an airport
coin once having a tail.
d. the mark on general mathematics examination that
a. {0, 1, 2, 3} b. {1, 2} c. {0, 1, 2} d. {0, 1}
consists of 50multiple-choice questions.
16. A basketball player makes 80 percent of his free throws
7. Suppose two (2) dice are tossed. Determine the sample
during the season. What is the probability that he will make
space.
exactly 6 of his next 8 free throws?
a. {(1,1), (2,2), (3,3), (4,4), (5,5), (6,6)}
a. 0.1468 b. 0.1678 c. 0.3355 d. 0.2936
b. {(1,2), (3,4), (5,6), (2,1), (4,3), (6,5)}
c. {(1,1), (1,2), (1,3), (1,4), (1,5), (1,6), (2,1), (2,2), (2,3),
17. The formula in finding the variance of a probability
(2,4), (2,5), (2,6), (3,1), (3,2), (3,3), (3,4), (3,5), (3,6), (4,1),
distribution is:
(4,2), (4,3), (4,4), (4,5), (4,6), (5,1), (5,2), (5,3), (5,4), (5,5), 2 2 2 2
(5,6), (6,1), (6,2), (6,3), (6,4), (6,5), (6,6)} a. σ =∑ ( X ∙ µ ) ∙ P( X ) C. σ =∑ ( X −µ ) ∙ P (X )
2 2 2 2
d. Cannot be determined. B. σ =∑ ( X ÷ µ ) ∙ P (X ) D. σ =∑ ( X + µ ) ∙ P( X)

8. What are the possible values of random variable 18. The formula in finding the standard deviation of a
X = NUMBER OF IDENTICAL ELEMENTS WHEN TWO DICE probability distribution is:
ARE TOSSED? A. √ Σ¿ ¿ C. √ Σ¿ ¿
a. X= {0,1} c. X= {0,1,2,3}
B. √ Σ¿ ¿ D. √ Σ¿ ¿
b. X= {0,1,2} d. X= {0,1,2,3,4}

19. Five balls numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are placed in a box.

One is selected, its number is noted, and then it is replaced. If
the experiment is repeated many times, find the mean of the
number on the balls?
 a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5
20. What is the variance in item number 3? 32. To find the area of a specific region under the standard
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 normal curve, the ____is used.
a. Table of Areas of Geometric Figure
21. How about the standard deviation in item number 3? b. The Z-Table
a. 2.41 b. 3.41 c. 2.41 d. 1.41 c. Table of Contents
d. Periodic Table of Elements
22. The number of books ordered by customers of a bookstore
has the following probability distribution. Find the mean. 33. Which of the following figures is the best illustration of the
area to the right of z =1?

a. 9 b. 5.55 c. 8.22 d. 9.3

23. The accompanying table shows the probability distribution

for x, the number that shows up when a loaded die is rolled.
Find the mean.

34. What will you do to find the area between the two z
a. 3.76 b. 3.50 c. 0.17 d. 3.89 values?
a. Subtract the obtained value from the Z table to 1
24. The probabilities that a batch of 4 computers will contain 0, b. Rewrite the value obtained from z table
1, 2, 3, and 4 defective computers are 0.6274, 0.3102, 0.0575, c. Subtract the two obtained values from the z table.
0.0047, and 0.0001, respectively. Find the variance for the d. Calculate the mean and standard deviation
probability distribution.
a. 0.3136 b. 0.5776 c. 0.3969 d. 0.1521 35. How will you describe this normal curve?

25. Which of the following statements is the characteristic of a

normal probability distribution?
a. The mean, mode, and median are equal.
b. The mean, mode, and median are not equal.
c. The mean and mode are equal while the median is
greater than zero. a. The shaded region of the normal curve is below the z = 1
d. The mean and mode are equal while the median is less b. The shaded region of the normal curve is above the z = -1
than zero. c. The shaded region of the normal curve is between
z=0 and z=1
26. Under the curve, the area to the right of the mean d. The shaded region of the normal curve is between
is_________. z= -1 & z=1
a. 30% b. 47.72% c. 50% d. 68%
36. Find the area of the shaded region of the given figure.
27. Suppose that distribution of data about the number of
deaths of COVID 19 positive has a mean of 45 and a standard a. 0.1587
deviation of 18. How many standard deviations away from the b. 0.3413
mean is a value of 81? c. 0.3907
a. It is one standard deviation above the mean. d. 08413
b. It is two standard deviations above the mean.
c. It is one standard deviation below the mean. 37. For the standard normal distribution, the area to the left of
d. It is two standard deviations below the mean. z = –1.4 is
a. 0.0808 b. 0.1616 c. 0.9192 d. 0.5075
28. If the mean and the standard deviation of a continuous
random variable that is normally distributed are 10 and 3, 38. The area of the region under the standard normal curve to
respectively, find an interval that contains 99.7% of the the right value of z = -1.19 is ___
distribution. a. 0.1170 b. 0.0287 c. 0.8643 d. 0.8830
a. [7, 16] b. [4, 16] c. [7, 16] d. [1, 19]
39. What is the sum of the areas under the standard normal
29. Based on the empirical rule, the bell-shaped distribution curve to the left of z = -3.14 and to the right of z = -2.62?
will have approximately 68% of the data within what number of a. 0.0008 b. 0.9964 c. 0.9956 d. 0.0036
standard deviations of the mean?
a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d. 3
40. the total area under normal curve is____
30. Which of the following is not a property of the standard 1) 1 2) -1 3) 0 4) 100%
normal distribution?
a. It is symmetric. c. It has a standard deviation of 1 a. 1 only
b. It has a mean of 1 d. 95% of the data falls within 2 S.D. b. b. 1 and 4 only
c. 3 and 1 d
31. What does it mean to have a negative z-score? d. . 4 only
a. The score is above the mean.
b. The score is below the mean. 41. Which of the following tells how many standard
c. The score is more than one standard deviation below the deviations a point is away from the mean of its data set?
mean.
d. The score is more than one standard deviation above a. X value b. media c. Z score d. mode
the mean.
 a. 8.547% b. 85.47% c. 47.85% d. 0.7458%

42. Which of the following is a formula that describes

calculating a z-score?
50. What is the equivalent of 26.4% in decimal?
a. 26.4 b. 264 c. 2.64 d. 0.264

51-55.
Underline the correct word in the parenthesis that makes each
statement true.

43. In a normally distributed population, which of the following

is true after converting the values of the normal random
variables to standard scores?

a. The mean and standard deviation are equal.

b. The mean is equal to zero and standard deviation is
equal to 1.
c. The mean is equal to one and standard deviation is
equal to zero.
d. The mean is equal to zero and standard deviation
ranges from -3 to +3.

44. A z-score of zero means that ______

a. the data value of a normal random variable equals the
mean.
b. the data value of a normal random variable is larger than
the mean.
c. the data value of a normal random variable is smaller
than the mean.
d. both b and c

45. A normal distribution of scores has a standard deviation

of 10. Find the z-score corresponding a score of 60, where
the mean score of the data values is 40.

a. -2 b. -1 c. 0 d. 2

46. For a population with μ = 100 and σ = 20, what is the X-

value corresponding to z = -0.75?

a. 85 b. 95 c. 105 d. 115

47. The grades of SHS students in General Mathematics at

Tagum City Division are roughly symmetric with μ = 85 and
σ = 2. Find the z-score corresponding to Joana’s grade of 88.

a. -1.75 b. -1.00 c. 1.00 d. 1.50

48. Self-Learning Modules (SLM) in Statistics and Probability

are found to have an average of 36 pages with a standard
deviation of 3 pages. The z-score corresponding to number of
pages of Module 8 is 1.33. How many pages are there in
Module 8?

a. 30 b. 33 c. 40 d. 47

49. Convert 0.8547 into percent.