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Illustrates the following measures of position: quartiles, deciles and percentiles.

1. When a distribution is divided into hundreds equal parts, each score point that describes
the distribution is called a _____.?
a. Decile
b. Median
c. Percentile
d. Quartile

2. Mr. Pabadora got a score of 55 which is equivalent to 70th percentile in a mathematics test.
Which of the following is NOT true?
a. Mr. Pabadora score is below the 5th decile
b. Mr. Pabadora score is above the 70% decile
c. Mr. Pabadora score is 55 above
d. Mr. Pabadora score is 55 below

3. In the set of scores: 21, 33, 9, 5, 40, 10, 47, 7, and 35, the median score is _______.
a. 10
b. 21
c. 35
d. 9

4. In a 70-item test, Joel got a score of 50 which is the third quartile. This means that:
a. Joel surpassed 75% of his classmates
b. Joel score is higher than 25% of his classmates
c. Joel got the highest score
d. None of the above
For items 5 to 7 (Arrange the scores in ASCENDING order)

Find the first quartile (Q1), second quartile (Q2), and third quartile (Q3) given the
scores of 10 students in their Math quiz.

6, 10, 2, 21, 4, 16, 12, 18, 14, and 8.

5. What is the value of the first quartile (Q1)?


a. 10
b. 6
c. 12
d. 8
6. What is the value of the second quartile(Q2)?
a. 14
b. 18
c. 12
d. 21

7. What is the value of the third quartile(Q3)?


a. 16
b. 21
c. 2
d. 4

8. Measures that divide an arranged data set into ten equal parts is called a____?
a. Percentiles
b. Deciles
c. Quartiles
d. Median

9. Find the Quartile 1 of the following data set.


1, 4, 7, 10, 15, 27, 37, 54
a. 4
b. 10
c. 7
d. 1

10. Find the P50 of the following set of data.


2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17, 19, 21, 23, 27, 30, 36, 41.
a. 13
b. 11
c. 17
d. 19
Solves problems involving probability

1. If you have 6 P10 coins and 7 P5 coins, in how many ways can you distribute the coins among 13
students?
a. 1714
b. 1715
c. 1717
d. 1716

2. How many 3 digit numbers can be formed from the numerals 3, 5, 6, 7, 8? No repetition
a. 40
b. 30
c. 60
d. 50

3. If 6 persons are to be seated in a round table with 6 chairs, how many ways can they be seated?
a. 80
b. 120
c. 60
d. 150

4. A box contains 6 Blue and 4 Black balls. Two balls are drawn in succession with replacement
from the box. What is the probability of getting a Blue on the first draw?
a. 4/5
b. 2/5
c. 1/5
d. 3/5
5. When two coins are tossed, each with two possible outcomes H (heads) and T (tails), calculate
the probability that two tails are obtained.
a. 1/2
b. 1/6
c. 1/8
d. 1/4

6. A jar stored 4 yellow marbles, 7 green marbles, and 10 violet marbles, what is the probability
that a marble taken at random from the jar would be violet?
a. 10/21
b. 7/21
c. 4/21
d. 11/21
7. In local donut shop, 63% of customers purchased a donut, 80% of customers purchase coffee,
and 88% of customers purchase coffee or a donut. What percentage of customers purchase
coffee AND a donut?
a. 55%
b. 65%
c. 45%
d. 50%
8. In a certain cup production line, 6% are chipped, 8% are cracked, and 2% are both chipped and
cracked. What is the probability that a cup picked at random be either chipped or cracked, or
both chipped and cracked?
a. 11%
b. 10%
c. 14%
d. 12%

Interprets measures of position.

1. Find D6 of the following data.


13, 16, 17, 19, 25, 28, 30, 33, 39, 43
a. 25
b. 30
c. 33
d. 28
2. What is the Decile 3 of these following scores:
23, 25, 27, 29, 32, 33, 35, 35, 38, 39, 42, 47
a. 27
b. 32
c. 29
d. 33
3. Does making the 50th percentile mean that you made an 50% on test?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Maybe
d. I don’t think so
4. It is a measure that tells us whether a value is about the average.
a. Measure of tendency
b. Measure of central tendency
c. Measure of position
d. Measure of dispersion
5. What measure of position that divides the distribution into 100 equal parts.
a. Median
b. Quartiles
c. Percentiles
d. Deciles
6. What measures of position that divides the distribution into 50 equal parts.
a. Median
b. Quartiles
c. Percentiles
d. Deciles

For items 7-8. Refers to the table below.

7. The 35th percentile of the scores of 50 students is?


a. 29.79
b. 29.29
c. 30.29
d. 30.79
8. The 70th percentile of the scores of 50 students is?
a. 39.64
b. 38.64
c. 38.14
d. 39.14
9. Your allowance every day is 100 pesos, you have to save 20% of your allowance which is the
second decile. how much did you save after 10 days?
a. 200
b. 230
c. 300
d. 330
Calculates a specified measure of position of a set of data.

For items 1-3. Refers to the table below.

9, 5, 3, 7, 2, 5, 6, 4, 8, 7, 2

1. Find the first quartile.


a. 3
b. 5
c. 7
d. 9
2. Find the second quartile.
a. 3
b. 5
c. 7
d. 8
3. Find the third quartile.
a. 3
b. 5
c. 7
d. 9

For items 4-5. Consider the score distribution of 15 students given below:

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

4. The lower quartile is__?


a. 72
b. 74
c. 79
d. 86

5. What is the 75th percentile?


a. 73
b. 77
c. 79
d. 82

For items 6-7:


The screen time (in minute) spent per day by some students using their smartphones.

6. What is the total frequency?


a. 31
b. 51
c. 50
d. 60
7. Which class interval contains the 2nd quartile?
a. 21-30
b. 31-40
c. 41-50
d. 51-60
8. A mutual fund achieved the following growth rates in 11-month period
(3%, 2%, 7%, 8%, 2%, 4%, 3%, 7.5%, 7.2%, 2.7%, 2.9%). What is the 5th decile
from the given data?
A. 4%
B. 3%
C. 2%
D. 2.09%
9. All EXCEPT one is not equivalent to 50th percentile.
a. Lower quartile
b. Median
c. 5th decile
d. Q2
Solves problems involving measures of position.

for items 1-2: refers to the table below.

1. In solving for the 2nd quartile, which lower boundary should be used?
a. 1.5
b. 12.5
c. 20.5
d. 30.5
2. What is the value of the 8th decile?
a. 37.5
b. 39.5
c. 43.5
d. 44.5
3. To monitor efficiency and quality of their canned products, a quality control team opened
cans of beans at random. The team found the following number of beans in the cans: 65, 74,
64, 76, 65, 68, 67, 69, 71, 56, and 70. What is the median number of beans in a can?
a. 67
b. 68
c. 69
d. 70

4. Which of the following is NOT true about P50?


5. A. It is the same as the
median of the data set.
6. B. It is the same as the 5th
decile of the data set.
7. C. It divides the data into 4
equal parts.
8. D. It is equal to the 2nd
quartile in the data set.
9. A. It is the same as the
median of the data set.
10. B. It is the same as the
5th decile of the data set.
11. C. It divides the data
into 4 equal parts.
12. D. It is equal to the 2nd
quartile in the data set.
13. A. It is the same as the
median of the data set.
14. B. It is the same as the
5th decile of the data set.
15. C. It divides the data
into 4 equal parts.
16. D. It is equal to the 2nd
quartile in the data set
a. It is the same as the median of the data set.
b. It is the same as the 5th decile of the data set.
c. It divides the data into 4 equal parts.
d. It is equal to the 2nd quartile in the data set.

5. Jessa got a score of 55, which is equivalent to a 70th percentile rank in a Science Quiz. 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.

6. The first quartile of the ages of 250 Grade 10 students is 16 years old. 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.

7. Which of the following statements below are true?


I. D5 = Q2
II. D2 = P20
III. D2 = Q1
a. I and II
b. I and III
c. II and III
d. I, II and III

8. Given the scores of grade 10 sunflower students in Mathematics. Find d8.


7, 8, 10, 11, 11, 12, 13, 13, 14, 15

a. 15
b. 12
c. 14
d. 13

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