‘Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Cabucgayan National School of Arts and Trades
Cabucgayan, Biliran

4th Quarter Examination in Mathematics 10

Directions: Read the instruction carefully. Encircle your answer.

Part I. Multiple choices.

1. In statistics, it talks about the position of a value relative to other values in a set of data.
a. Decile
b. Measures of Position
c. Percentile
d. Quartile

2. In the set of scores 14, 17, 10, 22, 19, 24, 8, 12 and 19, the median score is ______.
a. 13
b. 15
c. 16
d. 17

3. Claire ranks 10th in a class of 40. Her percentile rank is _________.

a. 10
b. 25
c. 75
d. 90

4. Karla got a score of 55, which is equivalent to a 70th percentile rank in a mathematics test.
Which of the following is TRUE?
a. Her score is below the 5th decile.
b. She scored above 55% of her classmates.
c. Thirty percent of the class got scores of 70 and above.
d. If the passing mark is the first quartile, she passed the test.

5. What measure of position that divides the distribution into four groups?
a. Deciles
b. Percentiles
c. Quantiles
d. Quartiles

6. The lower quartile is equal to ____________.

a. 2nd decile
b. 3rd decile
c. 25th percentile
d. 50th percentile

7. The 1st quartile of the ages of 250 fourth year students is 16 years. Which of the following
statements is TRUE?
a. Most of the students are below 16 years old.
b. Twenty-five percent of the students are 16 years old.
c. One hundred fifty students are younger than 16 years.
d. Seventy- five percent of the students are 16 years old and above.
 8. When a distribution is divided into hundred equal parts, each score point that describes
the distribution is called a _______________?
a. Decile
b. Median
c. Percentile
d. Quartile

9. Kobe’s score in a 75- item test is 45. What does it imply?

a. Kobe fails to pass the test.
b. Kobe’s score is the 3rd decile.
c. Kobe’s score is the 45th percentile.
d. Kobe’s score falls on the 3rd quartile.

10. In a 100-item test, the passing mark is 3rd quartile. What does it imply?
a. The students should answer at least 50 items correctly to pass the test.
b. The students should answer at least 75 items correctly to pass the test.
c. The students should answer at most 50 items correctly to pass the test.
d. The students should answer at most 75 items correctly to pass the test.

For items 11-14, please refer to the table below.

Score Frequency Cumulative Cumulative

Frequency Percentage (%)
40-45 6 18 100.00
35-39 5 12 66.67
30-34 3 7 38.89
25-29 4 4 22.22

11. In solving for the 60th percentile, the lower boundary to use is ____.
a. 34
b. 34.5
c. 39
d. 39.5
12. What cumulative frequency should be used in solving for the 35th percentile?
a. 4
b. 7
c. 12
d. 18

13. The 45th percentile is __________.

a. 30.8
b. 32.7
c. 33.4
d. 35.6

14. The 50th percentile is __________.

a. 36.0
b. 36.5
c. 37.0
d. 37.5
15. In a group of 55 examinees taking the 50-item test, Rachel obtained a score of 38 and 38
scores were above her. This implies that her score is ___________.
a. at the upper quartile
b. below the 4th decile.
c. the 38th percentile
d. the 55th percentile.

16. What measures of position that divides the distribution into ten groups?
a. Deciles
b. Percentiles
c. Quartiles
d. Median

17. Which statement is TRUE about the median of the quartile?

a. 25% of the data values falls below the median and 75% falls above.
b. 50% of the data values falls below the median and 50% falls above.
c. 75% of the data values falls below the median and 25% falls above.
d. 75 % of the data values falls below the median and 75% falls above.

18. Does making the 80th percentile means that you made an 80% on test?
a. Yes, because the 80th percentile is above 75% of the test.
b. No, because the 80th percentile means that your rank is 80th in the class.
c. Yes, because the 80th percentile falls on the upper quartile which used to be the
passing score.
d. No, because the 80th percentile means that a person did better than 80% of the
students who took the same test.

19. In calculating the measures of position, what is the first step that you are going to do?
a. Arrange the scores in ascending order.
b. Divide the scores into four equal parts.
c. Divide the scores into 10 equal parts.
d. Proceed directly to the solution.

20. The median score is also the ___________.

e. 75th percentile
f. 5th decile
g. 3rd decile
h. 1st quartile

21. The 3rd quartile of the distribution is equal to ___________?

a. 25%
b. 50%
c. 75%
d. 100%

22. What is the median of data 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24?
a. 12
b. 14
c. 16
d. 18
 23. What is the denotation for the percentile rank?
a. Ps
b. Pdr
c. PPR
d. Pk

24. It is an estimation of value within two known values in a sequence of values. This
method sometimes produces the same results.
a. Mendenhall Method
b. Linear Interpolation
c. Sincich Method
d. Scientific Method

25. In the data 34, 38, 42, 44, 46, 53, 56, 63, 64, 67, Liz score is 46. She wants to know the
percentage of her score. What measure of position she needs to use?
a. Decile
b. Percentile
c. Percentile Rank
d. Quartile

Part II. Solve the specified measures of position. (Show your solution.)

26-27. Find the value of the first quartile of the scores of 10 students in their Mathematics
activity: 4, 9, 7, 14, 10, 8, 12, 15, 6, and 11.

28- 29. Refer to item 26-27. Find the 5th decile of the scores. (Interpret the scores)

30-31. The scores Josh got in 5 tests are 77, 53, 51, 93 and 90. What is the product of D 7 and P55
of the scores? (Interpret your answer)

32-33. Niko’s salaries (in hundreds of dollars) in 12 months were 7, 14, 10, 18, 7, 13, 15, 20, 9,
18, 12, and 16. What is the sum of the 65 th percentile, 3rd decile and 1st quartile of the salaries?
(Interpret your answer)

Part III. Enumeration and illustration.

34-36. What are the measures of position?

37-40. Illustrate the measures of position: through a diagram.

Prepared by:

Maria Kimberly Jean M. Barili

Student Teacher

Verified by:

ALVIN E. PINON
Cooperating Teacher

Good luck and God bless! 