SUMMATIVE TEST IN MATH 10

Name of Student: _____________________________________ Date: ____________

Grade and Section: ___________________________________ Score: ___________
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read the questions carefully. Each item is followed by 4 choices, lettered a, b, c, and d. Write the
letter
of your answer on the space provided before each number.
____ 1. What do you call the different arrangements of the objects of a group wherein order is important?
A. Selection B. Differentiation C. Permutation D. Combination
____ 2. Which situation illustrates permutation?
A. Forming a committee of councilors.
B. Selecting 10 questions to answer out of 15 questions in a test.
C. Choosing mathematics books to buy from a variety of choices.
D. Assigning rooms to conference participants.
____ 3. Which of the following situations or activities involve permutation?
A. Matching shirts and pants.
B. Forming different triangles out of 5 points on a plane, no three of which are collinear.
C. Assigning telephone numbers to subscribers.
D. Forming a committee from the members of a club.
____ 4. What is the value of P if n = 12 and r = 4? A. 40 320 B. 11 880 C. 990 D. 495
____ 5. If n = r in P(n, r), then it is equal to _____. A. 1 B. (n – r)! C. n! D. (n + r)!
____ 6. Given x = P(n, n) and y = P(n, n – 1), what can be concluded about x and y? A.x > y B. x < y C. x = y D. x = – y
____ 7. In a town fiesta singing competition with 12 contestants, in how many ways can the organizer arrange the first
three singers? A. 132 B. 990 C. 1320 D. 1716
____ 8. What is the number of distinguishable permutations of the letters of the word EDUCATED?
A. 1 680 B. 10 080 C. 20 160 D. 40 320
____ 9. What do you call the selection of objects from a set?
A. Combination B. Differentiation C. Permutation D. Distinction
____10. Which of the following illustrates combination?
A. Arranging books in a shelf. C. Forming different numbers from 5 given digits.
B. Forming plate numbers of vehicles D. Drawing names from a box containing 200 names.
____11. Which of the following situation does NOT illustrate combination?
A. Selecting 2 songs from 10 choices for an audition piece.
B. Fixing the schedule of a group of students who must take exactly 8 subjects.
C. Enumerating the subsets of a set.
D. Identifying the lines formed by connecting some given points on a plane.
____12. There are 11 different food items in a buffet. Harlene wants to get a certain number of items. If Harlene has 462
possible ways as a result, which of the following did she possibly do?
A. choose 8 out of the 11 items C. choose 7 out of the 11 items
B. choose 6 out of the 11 items D. choose 4 out of the 11 items
____13. What do you call the two arrangements of objects where some of them are identical?
A. Distinguishable permutations C. Circular permutations
B. Unique combinations D. Circular combinations.
____14. Which of the following can be used in finding the ways can Abby choose her three-flavor ice cream scoop if there
are 6 available flavors? A. Combination B. Differentiation C. Permutation D. Distinction
____15. Which of the following situations does NOT illustrate combination?
A. Selecting fruits to make a salad. C. Choosing household chores to do after classes.
B. Assigning telephone numbers to homes. D. Selecting posters to hang on the wall of your room.
____16. How many different 3-digit numbers can be formed from the digits 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 if repetition is not
allowed? A. 840 B. 720 C. 360 D. 120
____17. In how many ways can Rheyze answer a 10-item matching type quiz if there are also 10 choices and he answers
by mere guessing? A. 3 628 800 B. 40 320 C. 720 D. 10
____18. If r = C(5, 2), s = C(5, 3), t = C(5, 4), u = C(5, 5), and we are given 5 points on a plane of which no three are
collinear, which expression gives the total number of polygons that can be drawn?
A. s + t B. r + s + t C. s + t + u D. r + s + t + u
____19. If a combination lock must contain 5 different digits, in how many ways can a code be formed from the digits 0 to
9? A. 15 120 B. 30 240 C. 151 200 D. 1 000 000
____20. Miss Cruz plotted some points on the board, no 3 of which are collinear. When she asked her students to draw all
the possible lines through the points, the student came up with 45 lines. How many points were on the board?
A. 10 B.15 C. 20 D. 2