Department of Education

Region VII, Central Visayas

Division of Cebu Province
District of Aloguinsan
ANGILAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Angilan, Aloguinsan, Cebu
FOURTH ALTERNATIVE TEST IN MATH 8
Direction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. What technique of counting possible outcomes is illustrated below?

1 2 3
A (A,1) (A,2) (A,3)
B (B,1) (B,2) (B,3)
Fundamental Counting Principle
A. Tabular C.

Systematic listing
B. Tree diagram
D.

2. Carmina has 4 different blouses and 3 different skirts to be worn by a mannequin. In

how many ways can she dress the mannequin?
A. 3 B. 6 C. 9 D. 12
3. Which method is best to use in counting the number of 5-digit numbers that can be
formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9?
A. Fundamental Counting Principle C. Table
B. Systematic Listing D. Tree Diagram
4. How many outfits are possible with 5 pairs of jeans, 8 t-shirts and 2 pairs of shoes?
A. 15 B. 40 C. 80 D. 100
A coin is tossed once, and a die is rolled once. Which of the following could
not be an outcome?
A. (H, 6) B. (T, 5) C. (T, T) D. (T, 1)
If a coin is tossed thrice, there are 8 possible outcomes. How many possible outcomes
5.

are there if a coin is tossed four times?

A. 8 B. 12 C. 16 D. 20
A canteen sells four different snack foods and two types of fruit juices. Grace can choose
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one snack food and one fruit juice. How many possible ways can she choose her snacks?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 6 D. 8
A luggage is locked with a 3-digit even number selected from 1 – 9 digits and repetition of
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digits is not allowed. How many possible ways the luggage can be locked?
A.150 B. 224 C. 260 D. 380
Six different books are to be arranged on a shelf. Unfortunately, the space available is
8.

only good for three books. Applying the product rule, which one gives the number of
ways of arranging the books on the shelf?
A. 3 x 2 x 1 B. 3 x 5 x 6 C. 6 x 5 x 4 D. 6 x 6 x 6
What is referred to as the likelihood or chance that an event will happen or
9.

occur?
Event
a. B. Experiment C. Probability D. Outcome

10. There is 7/10 chance of rain today. How is this probability written in decimal
form?
A. 0.007 B. 0.07 C. 0.7 D. 7.0
11. If the spinner at the right is spun once, what is the probability that it will land
not on B?
3
a. 8 c. 3
5
b. d. 5
8
12. A module reproduction team has 9 male and 6 female members. If every member is
equally likely to be elected as the chairperson of the team, what is the probability of
electing a male?
3 2 2 5
a. b. c. 3 d. 2
5 5
13. Which of the following spinner below has the probability of 0.25 that it will land
on black?
A. B. C. D.

14. Carlo is asked to choose a number from 1 to 20. What is the probability of
choosing a number that is divisible by 5?
A. 80% B. 60% C. 40% D. 20%
15. In a 5-item true or false test, which of the following will give us the number of ways of
answering the whole test?
a. 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 C. 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3
b. 2 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 D. 5 x 5 x 5 x 5 x 5
16. John rolled a die once and tossed some coins once. If the number of possible outcomes
is 24, how many coins were tossed?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
17. Which of the following situations will give 120 possible outcomes?
I. The number of ways a family of 5 members can arrange themselves in a row for a
picture taking.
II. The number of ways lunch can be selected from 2 kinds of rice, 4 kinds of meat and
vegetable viands, 3 different desserts, and 5 different fruit juices.
III. The number of ways a protective gear can be worn from 5 different overalls, 3 different
face masks, 3 pairs of gloves and 2 pairs of goggles.
a. I only B. II only C. I and II only D. I, II, III
18. Which of the following shows the importance of the counting techniques in determining
the number of outcomes of an experiment in real life settings?
I. The listing of possible menu combinations in a restaurant will enable the customers
to select easily.
II. Enable everyone to list down possible choices accurately.
III. Can make us rich.
a. I and II only C. I and III only
b. II and III only D. I, II, and III
19. Which of the following situations is most likely to happen?
A. Drawing a consonant from the letters of the word ―HARMONY‖.
B. All members of a graduating class to be valedictorians.
C. For an item in a True-False test to be false.
D. Rain to fall during the summer season.
20. Teacher Mae is a grade 9 adviser. She conducted a survey on the preferred learning
modalities which the students can choose from which are (a) Online learning, (b)
Modular, (c) face to face, and (d) blended learning. There were 50 students who
responded in the survey. The probability that a randomly
chosen student prefers modular learning modality is 3/5. What does this mean?
a. There are 15 students in the class who prefer modular learning modality.
b. There are 30 students in the class who prefer modular learning modality.
c. Modular learning modality is the least preferred from among the options.
d. There are more students who prefer the other learning modalities
 PERFORMANCE TASK
Unveil Me!

Cardano is an Italian physician, mathematician, and astrologer. He

gave the first clinical description of typhus fever. What is Cardano’s first
name? To know the first name of Cardano, match each question with the
possible answers listed in the box. Write the letter that corresponds to the
best answer. If you got all answers right, then you will know Cardano’s first
name.

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Questions:
1. What are the possible outcomes when a coin is tossed three times?
2. How do you call the set of all possible outcomes of an experiment?
3. If each of the four different skirts will be paired with each of the eight
different blouses, how many pairs are possible?
4. How do you call the counting technique that involves writing all the
possible outcomes in an experiment?
5. It is a technique of finding the number of possible outcomes in an
experiment without listing.
6. From the digits 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, how many three-digit odd numbers
can be formed if repetition of digits is not allowed?
7. What do we call the counting technique that uses columns and rows?
8. The possible outcomes when a coin is tossed three times are HHH,
HHT, HTH, HTT, THH, THT, TTH, TTT. What counting technique is
used here?

Possible Answers:
A. 40 27
B. Statistics Event 28
C. Certain 32
D. Sample space
E. Probability
F.
{HHH, HHT, HTH, HTT, THH, THT, TTH, TTT}
{HHH, HHT, HTH, HTT, THH, HTH, TTH, TTT}
Tree diagram
Possible outcomes
20
Fundamental principle of counting
Tabular
Experiment
Systematic listing