Mathematics Test: Statistics and Probability

1. Sum of items divided by the count of items.

None of these

Median

Mode

Mean

2. In all distributions of data, the median is equivalent to the:

Mode

Variance

50th percentile

Mean

3. Tools of planning research which is an indirect measure of a present or past condition that can not be directly measured because of lack of clear data, lack of time, or cost to do the full study.

Estimate

Projection

Forecast

Targets

4. Tools of planning research which is a judgmental statement of what the analyst believes to the most likely future.

Estimate

Projection

Forecast

Targets

5. It is a numeric value on an interval or ratio scale. Whole numbers that cannot be fractioned or divided. Age, number of houses, vehicles, scores of the game, etc.

None of these

Nominal

Ordinal

Discrete or Scale Data

6. Denoting or relating to a value or quantity lying at the midpoint of a frequency distribution of observed values or quantities, such that there is an equal probability of falling above or below it.

Mean

Mode

Median

None of thess

7. Is a systematic approach to estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives that satisfy transactions, activities or functional requirements for a business, sometimes called BCA.

Cost effectiveness analysis

Cost estimate analysis

Cost revenue analysis

Cost benefit analysis

8. Is a list of all the individuals (units) in the population from which the sample is taken.

Convenience sampling

Purposive sampling

Quota sampling

Sampling frame

9. Data values represent categories with no intrinsic order e.g. male/female, Tagalog/Visayan/Lumad, blood type, color of hair, parcel numbers, ID numbers, license plate number, etc.

Discrete or Scale Data

Nominal

Ordinal

Unmeasurable

10. Value of a set of observations which occur most often or with the greatest frequency; Data sets can have more than mode, while the mean and median have one unique value.

Mode

Mean

Median

Value

11. Number units within the sampling frame and select 5th, 10th, etc.

Stratified Random

Systematic Random

Simple Random

Multi-stage Random

12. This refers to the broad type of social research whose central objective is to solve urgent problems, develop a tool or social technology, explain effects of policies or actions and evaluate the impact of plan and programs on people.

Exploratory Research

Pure/Basic Research

Evaluation Research

Applied Research

13. Data values represent categories with some intrinsic order or property of magnitude, e.g., vote yes, no or conditional; agree, partially agree, disagree, Letter Grades ABCDEF, etc.

Ordinal

Nominal

Discrete or Scale Data

Continous

14. Tools of planning research which is a conditional statement about the future. Estimates of future populations based on statistical models that extrapolate past and present trends into the future.

Estimate

Projection

Forecast

Targets

15. Selection on the basis of categories that are assumed to exist within a population.

Sampling frame

Cluster

Quota sampling

Purposive sampling

Convenience sampling

Mathematics Test: Statistics and Probability

1. Sum of items divided by the count of items.

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. In all distributions of data, the median is equivalent to the:

3. Tools of planning research which is an indirect measure of a present or past condition that can not be directly measured because of lack of clear data, lack of time, or cost to do the full study.

4. Tools of planning research which is a judgmental statement of what the analyst believes to the most likely future.

5. It is a numeric value on an interval or ratio scale. Whole numbers that cannot be fractioned or divided. Age, number of houses, vehicles, scores of the game, etc.

6. Denoting or relating to a value or quantity lying at the midpoint of a frequency distribution of observed values or quantities, such that there is an equal probability of falling above or below it.

7. Is a systematic approach to estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives that satisfy transactions, activities or functional requirements for a business, sometimes called BCA.

8. Is a list of all the individuals (units) in the population from which the sample is taken.

9. Data values represent categories with no intrinsic order e.g. male/female, Tagalog/Visayan/Lumad, blood type, color of hair, parcel numbers, ID numbers, license plate number, etc.

10. Value of a set of observations which occur most often or with the greatest frequency; Data sets can have more than mode, while the mean and median have one unique value.

11. Number units within the sampling frame and select 5th, 10th, etc.

12. This refers to the broad type of social research whose central objective is to solve urgent problems, develop a tool or social technology, explain effects of policies or actions and evaluate the impact of plan and programs on people.

13. Data values represent categories with some intrinsic order or property of magnitude, e.g., vote yes, no or conditional; agree, partially agree, disagree, Letter Grades ABCDEF, etc.

14. Tools of planning research which is a conditional statement about the future. Estimates of future populations based on statistical models that extrapolate past and present trends into the future.

15. Selection on the basis of categories that are assumed to exist within a population.