Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education Region X

Division of Cagayan de Oro
GUSA REGIONAL SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL-X
Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City

Investigating the Correlation between the Daily

allowance of selected Grade 11 students in GRSHS-
X with Respect to the students Total Expenditure

RESEARCHERS

Abonitalla, Janine T.

Aganap, Kirstinn Kate N.

Ramos, Shannen Dougherty J.

11 – STEADFASTNESS

Ma’am Cecil Cespedes

INSTRUCTOR
A REQUIREMENT IN STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY- SECOND SEMESTER (Final
Term)

School Year 2019-2020

MARCH 2020

INTRODUCTION

Nowadays, students often whine about allowance due to financial dilemmas.

Every student has a responsibility in school including the submission of their project and
for doing their different performance task in each subject. Daily allowance is the amount
of money that a student is entitled to on a daily basis. It is one of the resources for
buying the needs of each student. Most students get their allowance from their parents
and parents’ money earned as salary from their work.

Money is the most common and universal medium of exchange for obtaining
goods and services that a person needs (Kenton, 2008). Factors such as age,
personality traits, and knowledge serve as a basis on how students handle their funds.
The ability to manage expenses and savings is known as budgeting. Budgeting is
important for financial stability, ensuring oneself of being able to pay for everyday
expenses. According to a study conducted by a bank and financial institution, students
spend a bulk of their allowance on mobile phone load, food and transportation.
According to Holland (2016) many students are unused to managing money. One of the
biggest challenges that they usually encounter is staying on top of what they are
spending, which means that they have a difficulty in controlling the way they spend.

Giving allowance is not just for a student’s financial assistance. It can also help
them to learn the necessary things when it comes to money management. Students’
learning to manage their money is a significant process during their maturing stage.
Practical budgeting skills have become important among humans for maintaining and
improving one’s place in society. One reason students are wasting their money is
because they don’t have the right priorities in mind. It is an expense that many students
choose not to forego. Budgeting capacity reflects a person’s spending and saving
behaviours.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

1.

RATIONALE

This study is conducted to investigate the correlation between the daily

allowance of selected Grade 11 students in GRSHS-X with respect to the students’ total

expenditure through various calculations in Mathematics specifically the real-life

application of Statistics in correlation and regression.

METHODOLOGY

This section of the paper presents the methods and steps in order to derive the

desired result.

This research is a quantitative research with a descriptive research design. The

researchers will use the correlation method to determine the Correlation between the

Daily allowance of selected Grade 11 students in GRSHS-X with Respect to the

students Total Expenditure.

The primary sources of data are the Grade 11 students.The researchers will

select 30 respondents. The respondents are from the senior high school students of

GRSHS-X of different sections namely; Generosity, Resilience, Sincerity, Humility,

Steadfastness, and Exactness.

The researchers will use random sampling method. Random Sampling technique

is the convenient selecting of sample fitted to the description of the desired

respondents. The researchers will then use a questionnaire as the primary instrument

for this study.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

 This section presents the results of the study cionducted. This also includes the
interpretation of the data and the conclusion based on the data collected. Here is the
raw data collected by the researchers:

Daily
Daily Total
Total Daily
Daily
Allownace Expenditure
Allownace Expenditure
1 100 30
2 100 70
3 150 50
4 100 70
5 100 60
6 100 50
7 80 80
8 100 50
9 50 20
10 100 50
11 150 120
12 80 75
13 70 65
14 100 100
15 70 50

16 70 70
17 100 100
18 100 100
19 120 120
20 100 100
21 150 150
22 50 50
23 70 70
24 50 50
25 50 50
26 120 120
27 80 80
28 150 150
29 100 100
30 65 50

Derivation of the formula

Finding the Correlation between the daily allowance of selected Grade 11

students of GRSHS-X with Respect to the students Total Expenditure.

Using Pearson r Correlation

Let x= Daily Allowance of selected Grade 11 students

Let y= Students Total Expenditure

Respondents X Y x2 y2 xy
1 100 30 10000 900 3000
2 100 70 10000 4900 7000
3 150 50 22500 2500 7500
4 100 70 10000 4900 7000
5 100 60 10000 3600 6000
6 100 50 10000 2500 5000
7 80 80 6400 6400 6400
8 100 50 10000 2500 5000
9 50 20 2500 400 1000
10 100 50 10000 2500 5000
11 150 120 22500 14400 18000
12 80 75 6400 5625 6000
13 70 65 4900 4225 4550
14 100 100 10000 10000 10000
15 70 50 4900 2500 3500
16 70 70 4900 3136 3920
17 100 100 10000 900 3000
18 100 100 10000 4900 7000
19 120 120 14400 14400 14400
20 100 100 10000 2500 5000
21 150 150 22500 10000 15000
22 50 50 2500 1600 2000
23 70 70 4900 1600 2800
24 50 50 2500 900 1500
25 50 50 2500 1600 2000
26 120 120 14400 4900 8400
27 80 80 6400 4900 5600
28 150 150 22500 4900 10500
29 100 100 10000 2500 5000
30 65 65 4225 625 1625
∑ 2825 1801 291825 127211 182695
 140

120
Students Total Expenditure

100

80

60

40

20

0
40 60 80 100 120 140 160
Daily Allowance of selected Grade 11 students

n ∑ xy−∑ x . ∑ y
r=
√¿ ¿ ¿

30 ( 182695 )−(2825)(1801)
r= 2
√[ 30 (291825)−( 2825 ) ] ¿ ¿¿
5480850−5087825
r=
√(774125)(572729¿)¿
393025
r=
√ 443363837100

r = 0.5902

( ∑ y ) ( ∑ x 2 ) −(∑ x )( ∑ xy)
a=
n ( ∑ x 2 )−¿ ¿

( 1801 )( 291825 )−(2825)(182695)

a=
30 ( 291825 )−¿ ¿

525576825−516113375
a=
8754750−7980625

9463450
a=
774125

a = 12.2247

n ( ∑ xy )−(∑ x )(∑ y )
b=
n ( ∑ x 2 )−¿ ¿

30 (182695 )−(2825)(1801)
b=
30 ( 291825 ) −¿ ¿
 5480850−5087825
b=
8754750−7980625

393025
b=
774125

b = 0.5077

The scatter plot shows that there is a positive correlation between the students’
daily allowance and the daily total expenditure. Based on the r value of 0.5902, there is
a moderate positive correlation between the two variables.

The correlation between the daily allowance of the students and their daily total
expenditure can be best represented by the model Ῠ= 0.5077x + 12.2247. This model
suggests that for every peso increase there is a corresponding average increase of
0.5077 in the amount of daily total expenditure.

Additionally, the R2 value tells us that 25.77% of the variation in the daily total
expenditure is explained by the students’ daily allowance.

These finding coincided with the study of