Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

FOURTH PERIODICAL EXAM FOR MATH GRADE 10

SY 2022-2023

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. On your answer sheet, shade the circle that correspond the letter of
your answer.

1. Which these are the score points which divide a distribution into four equal parts.
A) quartiles
B) deciles
C) percentiles
D) quantiles
2. These are the nine score points which divide a distribution into ten equal parts.
A) quartiles
B) deciles
C) percentiles
D) quantiles
3. These are the ninety-nine score points which divide a distribution into one hundred equal parts.
A) quartiles
B) deciles
C) percentiles
D) quantiles
4. In a 70-item test, Melody got a score of 50 which is the third quartile. This means that
A) she got the highest score.
B) she surpassed 75% of her classmates.
C) her score is higher than 25 of her classmates.
D) 75% of the students passed the test.
5. When identifying the quartile for ungrouped data, when do we use interpolation?
A) When the result is zero.
B) When the result is undefineD)
C) When the result is a whole number.
D) When the result is a decimal number.
6. The computed value of the first quartile is 2.5. What will be the final value?
A) The value is 2 after rounding down.
B) The value is 3 after rounding down.
C) The value is 2 after rounding up.
D) The value is 3 after rounding up.
7. Which of these formulas CAN NOT be used in getting the median score of an ungrouped set of data?
1
A) Q2 = (n+1)
4
1
B) Q2 = (n+1)
2
5
C) D5 = (n+1)
10
50
D) P50 = (n+1)
100
8. In a given set of data, the Q1 is 6 and the Q3 is 9. What is the interquartile range?
A) 3
B) 6
C) 9
D) 15
9. The lower quartile is equal to ______________.
A) 2nd decile
B) 3rd quartile
C) 25th percentile
D) 50th percentile
10. The median score is also the ______________.
A) 1st quartile B) 3rd decile
th
C) 5 decile D) 75th percentile
11. Mischa got a score of 55, which is equivalent to a 70th percentile rank in a mathematics test. Which of
the following is NOT true?
A) She scored above 70% of her classmates.
B) Thirty percent of the class got scores of 55 and above.
C) If the passing mark is the first quartile, she passed the test.
D) Her score is below the 5th decile.
12. 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
13. Cassidy’s score in a 75-item test was the median score. What is her percentile rank?
A) 25th B) 35th
C) 50th D) 75th

For numbers 14 to 16, refer to situation below.

The owner of La Pergola Café recorded the number of customers who came into his café each hour in a day.
The results were 14, 10, 12, 9, 17, 5, 8, 9, 14, 10, and 11.

14. What is the Q1?

A) 5 B) 8
C) 9 D) 10
15. What is the D6?
A) 8 B) 9
C) 10 D) 11
16. What is the P87?
A) 11 B) 12
C) 14 D) 17

17. Kristoffer ranks 10th in a class of 40. His percentile rank is ______.
A) 10 B) 25
C) 75 D) 90
18. 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) Seventy-five percent of the students are 16 years old and above.
C) Twenty-five percent of the students are 16 years olD)
D) One hundred fifty students are younger than 16 years.

For numbers 19 to 22, consider the score distribution of 15 students given below.

83 72 87 79 82 77 80 73
86 81 79 82 79 74 74

19. The median score is _______________.

A) 73 B) 79
C) 80 D) 82
20. The lower quartile is _______________.
A) 72 B) 74
C) 79 D) 86
nd
21. The value of the 2 decile is _______________.
A) 72 B) 74 C) 83 D) 85
22. The median in the score distribution for items 19 to 22 can also be interpreted as _______.
A) seven students scored above 79.
B) seven students scored below 79.
C) seven students scored below and seven students scored above 79.
D) fourteen students scored below 79.
 For the choices of numbers 23 to 24, refer to the box below

( ) ( )
kN kN
- cf b - cf b
A) Qk = LB + 4 i B) Dk = LB + 10 i
f Qk f Dk

( ) [[ ] ]
kN
- cf b 100 ( P - LB ) F P
C) Pk = LB + 100 i D) PPR = cf P
N i
f Pk
23. What is the formula in solving for the percentile for grouped data? C

24. What is the formula in solving for the percentile rank? D

For numbers 25 to 34, refer to situation below.

Given below is the tabulated data of the Mathematics test scores of Grade 10 students in TNHS – LTA)
Class Interval Frequency Lower Boundaries Cumulative Frequency
Scores (f) ( LB ) ( cf )
46 – 50 4 45.5 50
41 – 45 8 40.5 46
36 – 40 11 35.5 38
31 – 35 9 30.5 27
26 – 30 12 25.5 18
21 – 25 6 20.5 6

25. What is the total frequency of the given data?

A) 6th decile B) 7th decile
C) 8th decile D) 9th decile
26. What is the interval of the given data?
A) 4 B) 5
C) 6 D) 7
27. In which class interval score does the lower quartile falls?
A) 21 – 25 B) 26 – 30
C) 31 – 35 D) 36 - 40
28. In which class interval score does the 75th percentile falls?
A) 21 – 25 B) 26 – 30
C) 31 – 35 D) 36 - 40
29. What is the value of Q1?
A) 25.21 B) 28.21
C) 34.39 D) 40.27
30. What is the value of Q3?
A) 25.21 B) 28.21
C) 34.39 D) 40.27
31. Which decile does 39.14 falls?
A) 7th decile B) 6th decile
th
C) 4 decile D) 8th decile
32. Which percentile does 38 falls?
A) 45th B) 55h
th
C) 65 D) 75th
33. How many percent of scores are on the first three classes?
A) 21 B) 23
C) 25 D) 27
34. How many percent of scores are on the last three classes?
A) 21 B) 23
C) 25 D) 27
35. When identifying the percentile rank, in which of the following does the value has to be written?
 A) integral
B) percent
C) fraction
D) decimal
36. In a 100-item test, the passing mark is the 3rd quartile. What does it imply?
A) The students should answer at least 75 items correctly to pass the test.
B) The students should answer at least 50 items correctly to pass the test.
C) The students should answer at most 75 items correctly to pass the test.
D) The students should answer at most 50 items correctly to pass the test.
37. Which statement is NOT TRUE about the median?
A) It is the 2nd quartile.
B) It is the 5th decile.
C) It is the 50th percentile
D) It is the interval of the class
38. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE about the grouped datA)
A) The data are grouped according to classes with uniform intervals.
B) The data are arranged in either increasing or decreasing order.
C) The number of a specific data can be easily determined in the given set.
D) The number of a specific data is generically labelled through the class frequency.
39. How do you get the cumulative frequencies of the tabular data?
A) By adding the frequencies successively from the lowest class interval score to the highest.
B) By subtracting the frequencies successively from the lowest class interval score to the highest.
C) By multiplying the frequencies successively from the lowest class interval score to the highest.

D) By dividing the frequencies successively from the lowest class interval score to the highest.

40. How do we identify the interval of the class interval scores in a tabulated data?
A) By counting successively the numbers in the scores from the lower limit to the upper limit.
B) By getting the difference of two consecutive lower limits or two consecutive upper limits.
C) By subtracting the values of two consecutive lower boundaries.
D) all of the above
41. Which of the following describes the term ‘frequency’?
A) It indicates the chance of occurrence of a data in a distribution.
B) It tells how many times a particular data occurs in the whole distribution.
C) It is the sum of the frequencies from the bottom up to the frequency of a
certain category.
D) It is the sum of the frequencies from the top down to the frequency of a certain category.
42. Which of the following illustrates a frequency?
A) Salary increase.
B) Rate of interest of an investment.
C) Number of students enrolled in a statistics class.
D) Areas of specialization for sophomore students.
43. It was reported that two schools have equal reading performance since they have equal number of
learners who are independent readers in oral reading, silent reading and listening comprehension. Which of
the following can justify if the report is valid or not?
A) The report is valid since the two schools have equal number of learners who are independent
readers.
B) The report is only valid if the number of independent readers in each school is at least 1,000
learners.
C) The report is invalid because the basis of comparison is frequency and not the percentage of
independent readers.
D) The report is invalid since the exact numbers of independent readers from the two schools are not
mentioned in the report.
44. Which of the following levels of measurement has a “true zero” value?
A) Nominal B) Ordinal C) Interval D) Ratio
45. Which of the following levels of measurement can assign a quantitative value in each observation
with no natural order?
A) Nominal B) Ordinal C) Interval D) Ratio
46. Which of the following is NOT an example of a ratio variable?
 A) amount of money C) shoe size
B) temperature in °F D) distance
47. Which of the following sets of data has an outlier?
A) 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 C) 7, 8, 9, 10,12
B) 7, 8, 9, 10, 30 D) 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
48. Which of the following is a CORRECT statement about measures of position?
A) 50% is equivalent to the mean.
B) 25% is equivalent to the 1st quartile.
C) 95% is equivalent to the 95th percentile.
D) 75th percentile means 75% of the data are below it.
49. John’s percentile rank in the General Scholastic subtest in the NCAE is 85th.
What does this mean?
A) There are 85% of the examinees who scored lower than John in the General
Scholastic subtest.
B) There are 84% of the examinees who scored lower than John in the General Scholastic subtest.
C) John answered 85% of the items in the General Scholastic subtest correctly.
D) John answered 84% of the items in the General Scholastic subtest correctly.
50. It is recorded in your health card that your height falls in the 90th percentile among the Grade 10
learners. What does it mean?
A) You are taller than 90 Grade 10 learners.
B) You are taller than 89 Grade 10 learners.
C) You are taller than 90% of the Grade 10 learners.
D) You are taller than 89% of the Grade 10 learners.