Fourth Quarter Assessment

in Mathematics 10

Directions: Choose the letter that best answers each question.

1. When a distribution is divided into hundred equal parts, each score point that
describes the distribution is called a ______________.
A. decile B. percentile C. median D. quartile

2. A distribution of test scores for Mathematics 10 in the first quarter assessment is

described using the rectangle below. What measure of position does Point P
illustrate?
P

A. 1st quartile B. 3rd quartile C. 3rd decile D. 90th percentile

3. The median score is also the ______________.

A. 1st quartile B. 3rd decile C. 5th decile C. 75th percentile

4. The lower quartile is equal to ______________.

A. 2nd decile B. 3rd quartile C. 25th percentile D. 50th percentile

5. The score points which divide a distribution into ten equal parts are the______.
A. deciles B. percentiles C. quartiles D. mean and median

6. May’s score in a 75-item test was the median score. What is her percentile rank?
A. 25th B. 35th C. 50th D. 75th

7. You analyze a data set whose number of values is even. Which should be correct?
A. The second quartile of the data set cannot be found.
B. The second quartile of the data set will be twice the first quartile.
C. The second quartile of the data set will be the average of 2 numbers.
D. The interquartile range of the data set will be half the value between the
minimum value and the median.

Use the data below for items 8-9.

The following are the scores of Grade 10 students who participated
in a school-based Math Quiz.
8, 10, 12,14, 17, 19, 19, 22, 24

8. The second quartile of the scores is ___________.

A. 17 B. 16 C. 15 D. 13

9. The value of P60 is __________.

A. 6 B. 10 C. 17 D. 19

10. For the data set: 8, 12, 15, 20, 11, 5, 21, 0, what is the value of D7?
A. 6 B. 12 C. 15 D. 17.5

Refer to the distribution below for items 11-13.

Score Frequency Cumulative Frequency
40-45 6 18
35-39 5 12
30-34 3 7
25-29 4 4

11. In solving for the 80th percentile, the lower boundary to be used should be _______ .
A. 39.5 B. 38.5 C. 35.5 D. 34.5

12. What cumulative frequency should be used in solving for the 35th percentile?
 A. 4 B. 7 C. 12 D. 18

13. The 50th percentile is _____.

A. 36.0 B. 35.8 C. 38.0 D. 38.5

14. A median equal to 78 in a given score distribution of 25 students can also be

interpreted as _______.
A. twelve students scored higher than 78.
B. twelve students scored lower than 78.
C. twelve students scored lower than 78 and twelve students scored higher than 78.
D. 24 students scored lower than 78.

15. The first quartile of the ages of 250 Grade 10 students is 16 years. Which of the
following statement 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 old.

16. 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.

17. In a 70-item test, Joemi got a score of 50 which is the third quartile. This means that
A. she got the highest score.
B. her score is higher than 25% of her classmates.
C. 75% of the class did not pass the test.
D. she surpassed 75% of her classmates.

18. Trishia 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 55 and above.
C. If the passing mark is the 3rd quartile, she passed the test.
D. Her score is below the 5th decile.

19. Teacher Mae gave a test to her students in Grade 10. The students finished the test
in 35 minutes. This time is the 2.5th decile of the allotted time. What does this mean?
A. The students finished the test very much earlier than the allotted time.
B. The students did not finish the test in the allotted time.
C. The students finish the test just in time.
D. Only 25% of the students finish the test on time.

20. A student has 7 statistics books open in front of him. The page numbers are as
follows: 231, 423, 521, 139, 347, 400, and 345. The second quartile for this set of
numbers is _________.
A. 231 B. 330 C. 347 D. 423

21. An instructor recorded the following quiz scores (out of a possible 10 points) to 12
students who were present: 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10. The 6 th decile for this set
of scores is_______.
A. 9 B. 7.5 C. 7 D. 6.5

22. Angie ranks 10th in the academic ranking of candidates for honor students in a class
of 40. Her percentile rank is
A. 95 B.90 C. 85 D. 75

23. You have a height of 1.85m which is the fourth tallest in a group of 20 students. You
are at the _______.
 A. 50th percentile B. 75th percentile C. 80thpercentile D. 90th percentile

24. A cyclist recorded the number of kilometers per day she cycled for 5 days. The
recordings are as shown in the table below.
The 50th percentile for the number of kilometers she cycled was on
Day Number of kilometers
A. Monday
Monday 13 km
B. Tuesday and Thursday
Tuesday 10 km
C. Wednesday
D. Friday Wednesday 12 km
Thursday 10 km
Friday 11 km
Refer to the table below for items 25-26.
25. Jake did a survey of the number of brothers and sisters of his classmates. He
recorded the results as follows:
Numbers of Brothers and
What is the upper quartile? Frequency
Sisters
0 2
A. 2 1 4
B. 3
2 5
C. 3.5
3 4
D. 4
4 3
5 1
8 1
26. What is the lower quartile of this set of data?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 4 D. 5

Refer to the table below for items 27-29.

The following are the number of hours worked in a week by 15 employees of ICM.
Number of Number of Number of
Employee Employee Employee
hrs. hrs. hrs.
Alfredo 21 Janice 40 Kelvin 48
Daniel 23 Marife 40 Nethalyn 48
Ivy 34 Eloisa 42 Gerissa 50
Joseph 38 Jerry 47 Owen 51
Mae 39 Annie 48 Gerwin 57

27. Among the employees, whose number of hours worked corresponds to the first
quartile?
A. Alfredo B. Eloisa C. Joseph D. Nethalyn

28. If the employees who have worked for hours above the third quartile will be given a
one day off, then who among the following cannot avail of the day off?
A. Gerissa B. Jerry C. Kelvin D. Owen

29. Who among the employees has worked for a number of hours equivalent to the 2nd
quartile?
A. Jerry B. Eloisa C. Mae D. Marife

30. When it is necessary to determine whether an observation from a set of data falls on
the upper 25% or on the lower 75% of the ordered data, which measure should be
used?
A. Median B. 1st quartile C. 3rd quartile D. 70th percentile

31. The bar graph shows the digits obtained from 20 throws of a die.

F
What digit is the lower quartile?
r
e
A. 2 q
B. 3 u
C. 4 e
 Digits

Refer to the table below for items 32-36.

Below is a distribution of the scores obtained by Grade 10 students in the first quarter
assessment for Mathematics 10.
Scores Frequency
32. If the names of students were arranged in the order 46-50 4
of the scores they obtained, then who got the 41-45 8
median score? 36-40 11
A. The 25th in the list. C. The 27th in the list. 31-35 9
B. The 26th in the list. D. The 28th in the list. 26-30 12
21-254 6
33. If your score is 43, how many percent of your
classmates have scores that are equal to or greater than your score?
A. 84% B. 65% C. 35% D. 16%

34. If the passing score is the 75th percentile, how many passed the test?
A. 12 B. 11 C. 8 D. 4

35. Who among the following students has score that falls on the upper 25%?
A. James who scored 37. C. Mia who scored 40.
B. Nicole who scored 39. D. Albert who scored 41.

36. The teacher gave rewards to students whose scores belong to the upper 10%.
What is the possible lowest score of the student who received the reward?
A. 40 B. 41 C. 45 D. 46

37. Below are the points and the percentage of students who got the given points in a
math performance task given by your teacher. If you got a 4, what is your percentile
rank?
Points Percentage
A. 30th 1 0%
B. 77th 2 12%
C. 80th 3 50%
D. 92nd
4 30%
5 8%
38. The population of a town was recorded every twenty years from 1900 to 2000. The
results are shown in the line graph. Estimate the year when the population reached
its 80th percentile.

A. About 1980

B. About 1984

C. About 1988

D. About 1992

39. Dennis and Christine scored 36 and 34 respectively in the NCAE. The determining
factor for a college scholarship is that a student’s score should be in the top 10% of
the scores of his/her graduating class. The students in the graduating class obtained
the following scores in the NCAE.
Scores f ¿ cf
Based on their percentile rank, who receive the 39-41 6 99
scholarship? 36-38 7 93
A. Dennis only 33-35 9 86
B. Christine only 30-32 13 77
C. Both Dennis and Christine 27-29 22 64
D. None of them 24-26 10 42
21-23 9 32
40. What is the percentile rank of a student who 18-20 7 23
scored 39? 15-17 8 16
A. 91 C. 95 12-14 4 8
B. 93 D. 98 9-11 2 4
6-8 1 2
3-5 1 1