Measures of Position for

Ungrouped Data

MATHEMATIC
S 10
4th Quarter
 Review:
MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY

scores : 5, 2, 3, 4, 8, 2, 1, 9, 6, 8
1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 8, 9
1+2+2+3+4+5+6+8+8+9 48
mean = 10 = 4.8
10
mode 2 and 8

median 4+5 = 9 = 4.5

2 2
 Measures of Position
1st Quarter 2nd Quarter

Have you thought of comparing your academic

performance with that of your classmates?
Have you wondered what score you need for each
subject area to qualify for honors?
 Measures of Position

Whenever your teacher asks your class to form a

line according to your height, what is your position
in relation to your classmates?
Measures of Position
 MEASURES OF POSITION
(Ungrouped Data)
The QUARTILES are the 3 score points which divide
a distribution into four equal parts.

25% of the distribution are below the first quartile

(Q1), fifty percent (50%) are below the second
quartile (Q2), and seventy-five percent (75%) are
below the third quartile (Q3).
Q1 is called the lower quartile and Q3 is the upper
quartile. Q1 < Q2 < Q3, where Q2 is the median.

The difference between Q3 and Q1 is the

interquartile range.
Example 1:
Prince, the owner of an internet café recorded the number of
customers who came into his café each hour in a day. The
results were 14, 10, 12, 9, 18, 7, 8, 9, 15, 10 and 11. Find the
lower quartile and upper quartile of the data. Find also the
interquartile range.

Example 2:
The lower quartile of a data set is the 8th value. How many
data values are there in the data set?
Example 3:

9
 LINEAR INTERPOLATION
•determining a value from the existing
values in a given data set

•inserting or interjecting an intermediate

value between two other values
 83 – 2
=1

82 + 0.25

82.25
 MEASURES OF POSITION
(Ungrouped Data)
The DECILES are the nine score points which divide
a distribution into ten equal parts. They are deciles
and are denoted as D1, D2, D3,…, D9. They are
computed in the same way that the quartiles are
calculated.
 MEASURES OF POSITION
(Ungrouped Data)

Find the 3rd decile or D3 of the following test scores of

a random sample of ten students:
35 , 42 , 40 , 28 , 15 , 23 , 33 , 20 , 18 and 28.
15 18 20 23 28 28 33 35 40
42
 MEASURES OF POSITION
(Ungrouped Data)
The PERCENTILES are the ninety-nine score points which
divide a distribution into one hundred equal parts. For
example, the first percentile (P1) separates the lowest 1%
from the other 99%, the second percentile (P2) separates the
lowest 2% from the other 98%, and so on.
 MEASURES OF POSITION
(Ungrouped Data)

Find the 40th percentile or P40 of the following test scores of a

random sample of ten students:
33, 20, 15, 28, 18, 35, 42, 40, 23, and 28.
15 18 20 23 28 28 33 35 40
42
 SEATWORK NO. 1
The following are the scores of 30 Grade 10 students in a
50-item Summative Test:

43 21 26 44 21 18 37 29 13 37
36 35 23 38 27 25 29 20 18 34
16 22 45 28 46 22 48 31 30 25

Calculate:
1.) Q1 3.) D5 5.) P40

2.) Q3 4.) D7 6.) P90

and round to the nearest integer. If L falls halfway between two
integers, round up. The Lth element is the lower quartile value (Q1).

ROUND UP ROUND DOWN

and round to the nearest integer. If U falls halfway between two

integers, round down. The Uth element is the upper quartile value (Q3).
 Scores of 16 students of Grade 10-Fidelity in a 50-item
Summative Test.

6 44 14 50 19 11 20
32
35 47 36 35 25 28 23 50
Calculate: Q1 and Q3
 ROUND UP ROUND DOWN

Scores of 16 students of Grade 10-Fidelity in a 50-item

Summative Test.

6 44 14 50 19 11 20
32
35 47 36 35 25 28 23 50
Calculate: D1 , D6 , P15 and P82
 PERCENTILE RANK
The PERCENTILE RANKS are particularly
useful in relating individual scores to their
positions in the entire group.

The PERCENTILE RANK is defined as the

proportion of scores in a distribution that a
specific score is greater than or equal to.

Percentile of x = No. of values below x x 100

N
Percentile of x = No. of values below x x 100
N

Where:
•x is the score that you would like to determine
the percentile rank
•N is the number of observations
The table below shows the daily wage of 10 employees in a certain company.

Employee Daily Wage

A Php 850.00
B Php 832.00
C Php 805.00
D Php 778.00
E Php 731.00
F Php 675.00
G Php 612.00
H Php 579.00
I Php 550.00
J Php 476.00
The table below shows the daily wage of 10 employees in a certain company.

Employee Daily Wage

A Php 850.00
B Php 832.00
a.) Find the percentile rank of employee F
C Php 805.00 among other employees

D Php 778.00
E Php 731.00
F Php 675.00
G Php 612.00 b.) How many percent of the employees
H Php 579.00 have daily wage lower than Php 805.00?

I Php 550.00
J Php 476.00
 SEATWORK NO. 2
In a college, a list of grades of 15 students has been
declared. Their grades are:
85, 84, 67, 71, 84, 86, 78, 85, 87, 69, 74, 65, 88, 76, 82

Calculate using Mendenhall and Sincich Method:

1.) Q3 2.) D4 3.) P65

What is the percentile rank of the following grades?

4.) 87
5.) 71