MATHEMATICS 10

FOURTH QUARTER EXAMINATION

 I. Choose the letter that you think best answers the question.

1. The probability of heads landing up when you flip a coin is ½. What is the
probability of getting tails if you flip it again?
a) 1/4
b) 1/3
c) 1/2
d) 3/4

2. If a coin is toss three times, what is the probability that all three tosses come up
heads given that at least two of the tosses come up heads?
a) 1/6
a) 1/4
b) 1/3
c) 2/3
For numbers 3 and 4. Two men and three women are in a committee. Two of the five
are to be chosen to serve as officers.

3. If the officers are chosen randomly, what is the probability that both officers will be
women?

a) 3/4
b) 1/3
c) 3/8
d) 3/10

4. What is the probability that both officers will be women given that at least one is
a woman?
a) 3/4
b) 1/3
c) 3/8
d) 3/10
5. Barbara, Carol, Alice, Perla, And Sabrina are competing for two roles in a play.
Assume that the two roles will be randomly chosen from the five girls. What is the
conditional probability that Perla gets a role if we know that Carol does not get a role?
a) 1/4
b) 1/3
c) 1/2
d) 3/4

6. The median score is also the ___________.

a) 75th percentile
b) 5th decile
c) 3rd decile
d) 1st quartile

7. Rochelle 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) 30% of the class got scores of 55 and above.
c) If the passing mark is the 1st quartile, she passed the test.
d) Her score is below the 5th decile.
8. The lower quartile is equal to
a) 50th percentile
b) 25th percentile
c) 2nd decile
d) 3rd quartile

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

10 . In a 70 – item test, Melody got a score of 50 which is the 3rd quartile. This means
that _______.
a) She got the highest score.
b) Her score is higher than 25 of his classmates.
c) She surpassed 75% of his classmates.
d) 75% of the class did not pass the test.
11. Angie ranks 10th in a class of 40. Her percentile rank is _________.
a) 75
b) 90
c) 10
d) 25

12. 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) 75% of the students are 16 years old and above.
c) 25% of the students are 16 years old.
d) 150 students are younger than 16 years.
13. Mel’s score in a 55 – item test was the median score. What is the percentile rank?
a) 35th
b) 50th
c) 25th
d) 75th

14. When a distribution is divided into hundred equal parts, each score point that
distributes the distribution is called a _________.
a) percentile
b) decile
c) quartile
d) median
15. 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.

20. 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) the 38th percentile
b) at the upper quartile
c) the 55th percentile
d) below the 4th decile

25. The 50th percentile is equivalent to ___________.

a) 5th decile
b) 2nd quartile
c) mean score
d) all of the above
For items 16 to 19, consider the score distribution of 15 students given below:

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

16. The median score is ___________.

a) 80
b) 82
c) 73
d) 79
17. The lower quartile is ___________.
a) 74
b) 72
c) 86
d) 79
18. The value of the 2nd deciles is ________.
a) 74
b) 85
c) 72
d) 83
19. The median in the score distribution for items 13 to 16 can also be interpreted as _______.
a) 7 students scored above 79.
b) 7 students scored below 79.
c) 7 students scored below and 7 students scored above 79.
d) 14 students scored below 79.
For items 21 to 24, please refer to the Table A 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

21. In solving for the 60th percentile, the

lower boundary to use is ______.
a) 34
b) 34.5 23. The 45th percentile is ________.
c) 39 a) 33.4
d) 39.5 b) 32.7
c) 30.8
22. What cumulative frequency should be d) 35.6
used in solving for the 35th percentile?
a) 4 24. The 50th percentile is ______.
b) 7 a) 36.0
c) 12 b) 37.0
d) 18 c) 36.5
d) 37.5
II. Use the scores below which are the number of kilos of newspapers contributed by one
section in the Newspaper Fund Drive.

25 64 15 42 64
30 30 12 45 63
45 25 70 48 82
16 17 42 33 75
10 12 48 35 67
13 18 16 47 80
12 34 15 50 83
52 48 35 15 57

A. Construct a grouped frequency distribution using i = 10.

B. Construct a cumulative frequency distribution based on Problem no. 1.
C. Calculate for:
1. Q1 6. P25
2. Q3 7. P30
3. D4 8. P45
4. D6 9. P70
5. D8 10. P75