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MATH 403 – ENGINEERING DATA ANALYSIS
QUIZ 1 – ANSWER KEY
1ST SEMESTER SY 2022 – 2023
I. Identification

CONTINUOUS VARIABLE
___________________ 1. The number of stars in space.
CONTINUOUS VARIABLE
___________________ 2. Weight of patients in a hospital.

CONTINUOUS VARIABLE
___________________ 3. The time it takes to finish the Engineering Data Analysis Quiz 1.
CONTINUOUS VARIABLE 4.
___________________ The total number of fishes on the earth.
CONTINUOUS VARIABLE 5.
___________________ Size of fish caught in a lake.

CONTINUOUS VARIABLE
___________________ 6. Total number of the grain of sands on Earth.

___________________
DISCRETE VARIABLE 7. Number of planets orbiting the sun in our solar system.

___________________
DISCRETE VARIABLE 8. Batangas State University Students’ age in years.

CONTINUOUS VARIABLE
___________________ 9. Wind speed of Super Typhoon Karding.

___________________
CONTINUOUS VARIABLE 10. Distance traveled by car.

___________________
CONTINUOUS VARIABLE 11. Amount of radiation in X-ray.

___________________
CONTINUOUS VARIABLE 12. The time between two flashes of lightning.

CONTINUOUS VARIABLE
___________________ 13. The temperature of covid-19 patients.

___________________
DISCRETE VARIABLE 14. Total outcomes in tossing a pair of dice thrice.

___________________
CONTINUOUS VARIABLE 15. The lifespan of laptop batteries.

II. Multiple choice

16. Branch of mathematics concerned with theories of uncertainty, ways of measuring

uncertainty and the application of techniques involving uncertainty.
A. Descriptive Statistics
B. Inferential Statistics
C. Statistics
D. Probability

17. What do you call the set of all people, objects, events, or ideas researchers want to
investigate?
A. Data
B. Population
C. Sample
D. Statistics

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18. Which of the following can be considered as the best sample?
A. Conveniently chosen
B. Purposely selected
C. Selected at random
D. Self-selected

19. A researcher was given a random list of all graduating senior high school students. He
decided to conduct a survey by asking every seventh student on the list regarding the
courses that they want to take in college. What type of sampling technique is the
researcher planning to use?
A. Cluster
B. Random
C. Stratified
D. Systematic

20. You were a researcher and you wish to do a comparative study between two hospitals’
success rates in fighting COVID-19. Instead of mixing patients in the two hospitals, you
simply divided your samples into two and randomly selected those samples based on the
hospital that each individual attended for treatment. What type of sampling technique are
you using?
A. Cluster
B. Random
C. Stratified
D. Systematic

21. You go to the streets of your barangay to conduct a study on how SAP beneficiaries
spend their money during the COVID-19 community quarantine. You ask every passerby
to participate in your research. What type of sampling technique are you using?
A. Cluster
B. Convenience
C. Purposive
D. Stratified

22. Suppose you wanted to know the proportion of students who wear glasses on campus and
you immediately went ahead and surveyed only the students in your class. What sampling
technique did you see?
A. Cluster
B. Convenience
C. Purposive
D. Stratified

23. A tool to develop an experimentation strategy that maximizes learning using minimum
resources.
A. Design of Experiment (DOE)
B. Non-probability Sampling
C. Probability Sampling
D. Survey

24. Which of the following represents the amount of spread, dispersion, or variability of the
items in a distribution?
A. Mean or expected value
B. Median and mode
C. Outcomes and probability distribution
D. Variance and standard deviation

25. What term is used to describe the average value of a discrete random variable over
numerous trials of an experiment?
A. Mean or expected value
B. Median and mode
C. Outcomes and probability distribution
D. Variance and standard deviation

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 26. How would you interpret a very small variance or standard deviation but not equal to
zero?
A. The values of the random variables are farther from the mean.
B. The values of the random variables are nearer to the mean.
C. The values of the random variables are equal to the mean.
D. The values of the random variables have no relationship with the mean.

27. Which of the following data shows most likely the smallest possible variance or
variability?
A. Number of books in different branch of National Bookstore
B. Number of books inside a pack bag of engineering students
C. Number of books inside the library of different universities
D. Number of books inside the library of different households

28. Which of the following data shows most likely the largest possible variance or
variability?
A. Number of girls in a randomly selected three-child family.
B. Number of newborn babies per minute.
C. Number of Oreo cookies inside a 133 grams pack from different branch of 711
stores.
D. Number of patients who are positive with COVID-19 in different hospitals.

29. Which is not a property of the standard normal distribution?

A. It’s symmetric about the mean
B. It’s uniform
C. It’s bell-shaped
D. It’s unimodal

30. Approximately what percentage of normally distributed data values will fall within 1
standard deviation above or below the mean?
A. 0%
B. 68%
C. 95%
D. 99.7%

31. The mean of the standard normal distribution is

A. 0
B. 1
C. 100
D. 1000

32. The mean of the standard normal distribution is

A. 0
B. 1
C. 100
D. 1000

For numbers 33-35, refer to the following:

One thousand tickets are sold for ₱50.00 each. One ticket will win ₱10,000.00, two tickets will
win ₱5,000.00 each and three tickets will win ₱1,000.00 each. Let X denote the net gain from the
purchase of a randomly selected ticket.

33. Which of the following tables of values shows the probability distribution of X?

A.

B.

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 C.

D.

1000 – 50 5000 – 50 10000 – 50

X (net gain) -50
= 950 = 4950 = 9950
994 3 2 1
P(X)
1000 1000 1000 1000
34. What is the probability that you will win a prize if you buy two tickets?
A. 2
B. 2/500
C. 2/1000
D. 998/1000

35. What is the mean or the expected value of a person who buys a ticket?
A. - 25
B. - 27
C. 27
D. 25

994 3 2 1
E[X] = (−50) + (950) + (4950) + (9950)
1000 1000 1000 1000

E[X] = −27
36. In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly. What
is the probability that it is neither red nor green?
A. 1/3
B. 7/19
C. 9/21
D. 3/4
total number of blue balls
P =
total number of balls in a box

total number of blue balls = 7

total number of balls in a box = 8 + 7 + 6 = 21

7
P =
21
1
P =
3

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 37. In a poker game consisting of five cards, what is the probability of holding 2 aces and 2
queens?
ACE – ACE – QUEEN – QUEEN – ANY CARD
A. 35/54145
B. 36/54145
C. 37/54145 4 3 4 3 48 5!
P= ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙
D. 38/54145 52 51 50 49 48 2! ∙ 2!
36
P=
54145

38. Lebron James sinks 50% of all his attempts. What is the probability that he will make
exactly 3 of his next 10 attempts?
A. 1/256 n = number of trials
B. 3/8 n = 10 (10 attempts)
C. 15/128 r = number of successes
D. 30/128 r = 3 (exactly 3)
p = probability of success
p = 0.5
q = probability of failure
q = 1 − p = 1 − 0.5
q = 0.5

P = nCr ∙ p ∙ q
P = 10C3 ∙ (0.5) ∙ (0.5)
15
P =
128
For numbers 39-41, refer to the following:
A manufacturer produces light-bulbs that are packed into boxes of 100. The quality control
studies indicate that 0.5% of the light-bulbs produced are defective.

39. What percentage of the boxes will contain no defective item?

A. 30.33%
B. 39.35% μ ∙e
P =
C. 60.65% r!
D. 7.58% μ = average number of successes
μ = 0.005 × 100 = 0.5 (average of 0.5 defective items per box)
r = exact number of successes
r = 0 (no defective)
(0.5) ∙ e .
P =
0!
P = 0.6065

40. What percentage of the boxes will contain 2 or more defectives?

A. 90.98%
B. 9.02% μ ∙e
C. 7.58% P(X ≥ r) =
r!
D. 1.44%
μ = average number of successes
μ = 0.005 × 100 = 0.5 (average of 0.5 defective items per box)
r = exact number of successes
r = [2, +∞] (2 or more defectives)
.
0.5 ∙ e
P(X ≥ 2) =
r!
P(X ≥ 2) = 0.0902

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41. What percentage of the boxes will contain at most 3 defectives?
A. 99.82% μ ∙e
B. 9.02% P(X ≤ r) =
C. 7.58% r!
D. 1.44% μ = average number of successes
μ = 0.005 × 100 = 0.5 (average of 0.5 defective items per box)
r = exact number of successes
r = [0,3] (at most 3 defectives)
.
0.5 ∙ e
P(X ≤ 3) =
r!
P(X ≤ 3) = 0.9982

42. A physician’s report claims that 70% of those who die from lung cancer are smokers. If
the good doctor’s report is correct, find the probability that of 20 such deaths, fewer than
half are smokers.
A. 0.0480 P(X < r) = nCr ∙ p ∙ q
B. 0.9829
C. 0.0171 n = number of trials
D. 0.0049 n = 20 (20 deaths)
r = number of successes
r = [0, 9] (fewer than half are smokers)
p = probability of success
p = 0.70
q = probability of failure
q = 1 − p = 1 − 0.70
q = 0.30

P(X < 10) = 20Cr ∙ (0.70) ∙ (0.30)

P(X < 10) = 0.0171

43. According to the Manila Water District, approximately 30% of all pipework failures in
Metro Manila are caused by substandard materials. What is the probability that no more
than 4 out of 20 such failures are due to substandard materials?
A. 0.2375
B. 0.7625 P(X ≤ r) = nCr ∙ p ∙ q
C. 0.1071
D. 0.0875 n = number of trials
n = 20 (20 failures)
r = number of successes
r = [0, 4] (no more than 4 failures)
p = probability of success
p = 0.30
q = probability of failure
q = 1 − p = 1 − 0.30
q = 0.70

P(X ≤ 4) = 20Cr ∙ (0.30) ∙ (0.70)

P(X ≤ 4) = 0.2375

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For numbers 44-45, refer to the following:
In the recently concluded board examination, 50%, 30%, and 20% of the total number of
examinees came from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, respectively. The percentage of passers
from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao are 65%, 45%, and 50%, respectively.

44. If a student is selected at random is found to be a passer, what is the probability that the
student is from Mindanao?
A. 100/1000 Let:
B. 20/112 1000 – total number of examinees/students
C. 27/112
D. 65/112 P(M&P)
P(M|P) =
P(P)

Students of L = 0.50 x 1000 = 500

Students of V = 0.30 x 1000 = 300
Students of M = 0.20 x 1000 = 200

Students of L&Passer = 0.65 x 500 = 325

Students of V&Passer = 0.45 x 300 = 135
Students of M&Passer = 0.50 x 200 = 100

Number of Passers = 325 + 135 + 100 = 560

100
P(M|P) =
560
5 20
P(M|P) = =
28 112

45. If a student is selected at random, what is the probability that the student is from
Mindanao?
total number of students of Mindanao
A. 10/100 P(M) =
B. 20/100 total number of students
C. 27/100
200
D. 65/100 P(M) =
1000
20
P(M) =
100

For numbers 46-47, refer to the following:

Four large batches of eggs are scheduled to be hatched in an incubator. Historical data suggests
that the number of spoiled eggs (eggs that do not hatch) is Poisson distributed with mean 8 per
batch.

46. What is the probability that there are at most 5 spoiled eggs in a batch?
A. 0.0993 μ ∙e
B. 0.0996 P(X ≤ r) =
C. 0.1909 r!
D. 0.1912 μ = average number of successes
μ = 8 (8 spoiled eggs per batch)
r = exact number of successes
r = [0, 5] (at most 5 spoiled eggs per batch)
8 ∙e
P(X ≤ 5) =
r!
P(X ≤ 5) = 0.1912

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 47. Find the probability that the total number of spoiled eggs in four batches is 20 or more?
A. Less than 0.96
B. Between 0.96 and 0.97 μ ∙e
P(X ≥ r) =
C. Between 0.97 and 0.98 r!
D. More than 0.98
μ = average number of successes
μ = 8 × 4 = 32 (32 spoiled eggs per 4 batch)
r = exact number of successes
r = [20, +∞] (20 spoiled eggs or more per 4 batch)
32 ∙ e 32 ∙ e
P(X ≥ 20) = = 1−
r! r!
P(X ≥ 20) = 0.9907

For numbers 48-50, refer to the following:

The average height of a certain age group of people is 53 inches. The standard deviation is 4
inches. Assume the variable is normally distributed.

48. Find the probability that the individual’s height will be less than 45 inches.
A. 0.0228
B. 0.0668 P(X < 45 in) = P(Z )
C. 0.0934
D. 0.4648 value − mean X−μ
Z = =
standard deviation σ
X = value
X = 45 in
μ = mean
μ = 53 in
σ = standard deviation
σ = 4 in
45 − 53
Z =
4
Z = −2
P(X < 45 in) = P(−2)
P(X < 45 in) = 0.0228

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49. What the probability that the individual’s height will be between 50 and 55 inches?
A. 0.0228 P(50 in < X < 55 in) = P(Z ) − P(Z )
B. 0.0668
C. 0.0934
D. 0.4648 Z value − mean X−μ
= =
standard deviation σ
X = value
X = 55 in
μ = mean
μ = 53 in
σ = standard deviation
σ = 4 in
55 − 53
Z =
4
Z = 0.5

value − mean X−μ

Z = =
standard deviation σ
X = value
X = 50 in
μ = mean
μ = 53 in
σ = standard deviation
σ = 4 in
50 − 53
Z =
4
Z = −0.75

P(50 in < X < 55 in) = P(0.5) − P(−0.75)

P(50 in < X < 55 in) = 0.4648

50. Determine the probability that the individual’s height will be greater than 59 inches.
A. 0.0228 P(X > 59 in) = R(Z )
B. 0.0668
C. 0.0934
D. 0.4648 value − mean X−μ
Z = =
standard deviation σ
X = value
X = 59 in
μ = mean
μ = 53 in
σ = standard deviation
σ = 4 in
59 − 53
Z =
4
Z = 1.5
P(X > 59 in) = R(1.5)
P(X > 59 in) = 0.0668

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