Q4 - MODULE 33

Measures of
Position of
Ungrouped Data
1. illustrate the following measures of position: quartile, decile, and
percentile,
2. calculate a specified measure of position (e.g. 90th percentile) of a
set of data;
3. interpret measures of position; and

4. solve problems involving measures of position.

Dear Father in Heaven,
We sincerely repent of the sins we have committed against our
neighbors. May the Lord subtract our sinfulness and add more
patience to our lives. Thank you, Lord, for the opportunities and
wide range of blessings. Continue to graph us according to your
ways. Please multiply the blessings we receive every day so that we
can divide them among those who are in need. Please equate our
lives to your plans so that our ups and downs in slope you will
always be there.
Please enjoin us and be the center and domain of our everyday life.
These we pray in the sweet name of Jesus. Amen.
 DRILL
INSTRUCTIONS: Solve the following
problems. Raise your HAND if you want
to answer.
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1. What is the formula in solving for the mean?

A. (∑x)/n B. (∑fx)/n C. x/n D. (fx)/n

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2. What do you call the middle value or score when a
set of data are arranged in either ascending or
descending order?

• A. Mean B. Median C. Mode D. Frequency

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3. Which of the following is the formula to solve for
the median?
A. x̃ = {(n+1)/2} th value C. x̃ = {n+1} th value
B. x̃ = {(x+1)/2} th value D. None of the above
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4. Agnes' scores in her 4 written works in the 3rd quarter
in Filipino are 27, 22, 24, 23. What is her mean score?
A. 27 C. 24
B. 22 D. 23
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5. What do you call the value or score that has the
highest frequency or the value or score that appears
most frequently in a given set of data?
• A. Mean B. Median C. Mode D. Frequency
 PRE-TEST
Choose the
letter of the
correct answer.
1. The median of a given data set is also the ______.
A. first quartile C. second quartile
B. seventh decile D. None of the above.
2. What measure divides the distribution into ten equal parts?
A. Median B. quartile C. decile D. percentile
3. The first quartile of the data set is equal to the ______.
A. 5th decile C. 50th percentile
B. 25th percentile D. 75th percentile
4. What is the median of the scores 6, 8, 11, 25, 15, 10, 2, 8, 16?
A. 2 B. 6 C. 8 D. 10
5. Using Tukey’s Method, what is the first quartile of the following set of values:
12, 15, 22, 23, 34, 8, 19, 17,18
A. 12 B. 12.5 C. 13.5 D. 15
PRE-TEST : ANSWERS
1. C
2. C
3. B
4. D
5. C.
Do you know the most popular Chinese zodiac legend?

According to this legend, the Jade Emperor made an

order to designate animals as the calendar signs. The
twelve animals that arrive first in the banquet shall be
selected. On that day, the rat got up early and rushed to
the banquet. On his way, he met the ox and asked the ox
to carry him on his back. As the two were approaching
the site, the rat slid in front of the ox, and became the
first lucky animal of the Chinese zodiac.
 Following rat and ox are tiger, rabbit, snake , dragon,,
horse, sheep, rooster, monkey , dog, and pig.

rat ox tiger rabbit snake dragon horse sheep rooster monkey dog pig.
 Answer the following questions based on the story.

rat ox tiger rabbit snake dragon horse sheep rooster monkey dog pig.

1) Which of the following belongs to the first 50% that

arrived earlier than the rest of the group?

A. tiger B. rabbit C. dragon D. all of the above

 Answer the following questions based on the story.

rat ox tiger rabbit snake dragon horse sheep rooster monkey dog pig.

2.) Which of the following belongs to the second 50% that

arrived later than the rest of the group?

A. horse B. snake C. dragon D. none of the above

 Answer the following questions based on the story.

rat ox tiger rabbit snake dragon horse sheep rooster monkey dog pig.

3.) Which of the following represents the median?

A. dragon B. snake C. horse D. rooster
 Answer the following questions based on the story.

rat ox tiger rabbit snake dragon horse sheep rooster monkey dog pig.

4) Which of the following belongs to the first 25% that arrived

earlier than the rest of the group?

A. tiger B. rabbit C. dragon D. snake

 Answer the following questions based on the story.

rat ox tiger rabbit snake dragon horse sheep rooster monkey dog pig.

5) How many percent of the animals arrived later than the

tiger?

A. 25% B. 50% C. 75% D. 100%

 LESSON PROPER:
From the previous activity, we observed that each animal
has a position. Take for example the tiger.

The tiger belongs to the first 50% or top 50% of the

group that arrived earlier than the rest of the animals.

rat ox tiger rabbit snake dragon horse sheep rooster monkey dog pig.

50%
 LESSON PROPER:
The tiger belongs to the first 25% or top 25% of the
group that arrived earlier than the rest of the animals.

rat ox tiger rabbit snake dragon horse sheep rooster monkey dog pig.

25%
 LESSON PROPER:
The tiger arrived earlier than 75% of the animals.

rat ox tiger rabbit snake dragon horse sheep rooster monkey dog pig.

75%
Interestingly, based on this example, we can say that
there are several measures that can be used to describe
the position of the tiger.
Now, what is Measure of position?

Measure of position is a measure by which the position of

a data is determined through its value.

One measure that you had discussed when you were in

Grade 7 and Grade 8 was the median.
Again, what is the definition of Median?

Median is the middle value or score when a set of data

are arranged in either ascending or descending order.

In applying the concept of median, you arrange all the

observations/scores/data in either ascending or
descending order. This ordered set is then divided into
two equal parts. The median then is the middle number
that divides the data into two equal parts. Fifty percent
of the data is below the median (lower half).
 In the story, the median is the dragon because 50% of
the animals arrived later than the dragon.

rat ox tiger rabbit snake dragon horse sheep rooster monkey dog pig.

The animals that belong to the first fifty percent of the

group that arrived earlier are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, snake
and dragon. The animals that belong to the fifty percent of
the group that arrived later are the horse, sheep, rooster ,
monkey, dog, and pig.
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
Let us have a recap on the concept of median. Let us first
consider a data set with odd number of values.
Example:
A. In their Physical Education class, seven students
practiced shooting the basketball ball from the free-throw
line for twenty times. Below is the list of the successful
shots done by the seven students.
9 , 3 , 5 , 6 , 8 , 10 , 11

Find the median of the data set.

SOLUTION
Solution:
First, let us arrange the values in ascending order:
3 , 5 , 6 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11
Then, find the middle number. Since there are 7 values, the
middle is the 4th value counting from either left of right.
3 , 5 , 6 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11
Therefore, the median is 8. This means that about 50% of the
group has a lower number of successful shots than 8 and
about 50% of the group has a higher number of successful
shots than 8.
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
Let us proceed in finding the median of a data set with even
number of values.
Example:
In their Physical Education class, eight students
participated in throwing the shot put. Below is the list of
how far (by meters) the shot put reached per student.

17 , 7 , 5 , 9 , 11 , 3 , 13 , 15

Find the median of the data set.

 SOLUTION
First, let us arrange the values in ascending order:
3 , 5 , 7 , 9 , 11 , 13 , 15 , 17
Then, find the middle number. Since there are 8 values,
then the middle values are the 4th value from the left and
the 4th value from the right.
3 , 5 , 7 , 9 , 11 , 13 , 15 , 17
The median is the mean of the two values.
(9+11)/2 = 20/2 =10
Therefore, the median is 10 meters. This means that 50% of
the group threw shorter than 10 meters and 50% of the
group threw longer than 10 meters.

Say, Hero is one of the students who threw the shot put and
his throw reached 15 meters.
3 , 5 , 7 , 9 , 11 , 13 , 15 , 17

This means that Hero belongs to the group that threw the
shot put farther than 10 meters.
What’s New
In the previous activity, we only divided the data set into
two equal parts, but we may also divide the data set into
more parts of equal sizes such as into four, ten, or even a
hundred parts. Doing this will require us to compute for
quartiles, deciles, and percentiles, respectively.
QUATRTILES
The quartiles are values which divide a list of ordered
numbers into four equal parts. There are three quartiles
which are denoted as 𝑄₁, 𝑄₂ ,and 𝑄₃.

If the data are arranged in ascending order, the second

quartile, 𝑄₂, is the median of the data set. This means that
50% of the numbers in the data set lie below 𝑄₂.
The first quartile, 𝑄₁ is the median of the lower half of the
data set. This means that 25% of the numbers in the data set
lie below 𝑄₁.
The third quartile, 𝑄₃ is the median of the upper half of the
data set. This means that 75% of the numbers in the data set
lie below 𝑄₃.
 rat ox tiger rabbit snake dragon horse sheep rooster monkey dog pig.

𝑄₁ 𝑄₂ 𝑄₃
The quartiles can be interpreted in several ways. For 𝑄₁, we
can claim that the rat, ox and tiger belong to the 25% of the
group that arrived latest in the group. The rabbit, snake
dragon, horse, sheep, rooster, monkey, dog, and
pig belong to the 75% group that arrived later than the rest of
the group.
 DECILES
The median divides the data set into two equal parts.
Quartiles divide the data set into four equal parts.

So, how are you going to define Deciles?

Deciles are values that divide the data set into ten equal
parts. There are nine deciles which are denoted as 𝐷₁,
𝐷₂, 𝐷₃,…, 𝐷₉.
 DECILES

If the data are arranged in ascending order, 𝐷₁ would mean

that 10% of the data lie below it. 𝐷₂ would mean that 20%
of the data lie below it.
 DECILES
Example:
1. Mr. Jhun is an English teacher. He is interested in the
reading speed of his students. The following are the
numbers of words his students can read in one minute.
50 , 25 , 23 , 30 , 42 , 20 , 13 , 16 , 18 , 10

Find the seventh decile.

 DECILES
50 , 25 , 23 , 30 , 42 , 20 , 13 , 16 , 18 , 10

1. Arrange the numbers of words read by the students in

one minute in ascending order.

10 , 13 , 16 , 18 , 20 , 23 , 25 , 30 , 42 , 50

Locate the seventh decile

D₇ = 25
PERCENTILES
If the median divides the data set into two equal parts.
Quartiles divide the data set into four equal parts. Deciles
divide the data set into ten equal parts, how will you define
Percentiles?

Percentiles divide the data set into one hundred equal parts.
There are ninety-nine percentiles which are denoted as
𝑃₁, 𝑃₂, 𝑃₃,…, 𝑃₉₉.
PERCENTILES

If the data are arranged in ascending order, 𝑃₁ would

mean that 1% of the data lie below it.
Measure of position is a measure by which the
position of a data is determined through its value.
Quartiles divide the ordered set of data into four
equal parts.
Deciles divide the ordered set of data into ten equal
parts.
Percentiles divide the ordered set of data into 100
equal parts.
 ACTIVITY 1: Read and answer each of the following items accurately.
Write the letter of the correct answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. Which measure divides the data set or distribution into 100 equal parts?
A. Median B. Quartile C. Decile D. Percentile
2. The second quartile of the data set is equal to the ______.
A. 4th decile B. 25th percentile C. 50th percentile D. 75th percentile
3. What is the 6th decile for the following set of scores?
9, 11, 8, 9, 9, 14, 6, 5, 3, 16
A. 5 B. 5 C. 6 D. 9
4. From the given data set in item#3, what is the 20th Percentile?
A. 5 B. 5.5 C. 6 D. 6.5
5. Which of the following measures where exactly 25% of the distribution or
data set are below it?
A. 1st Quartile B. 2nd Decile C. 3rd Quartile D. 7th Decile
ANSWER KEY

1. D

2. C

3. D

4. A

5. A
THANK YOU!