Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education

SUMMATIVE TEST
Mathematics 10
Name ____________________________________ Score___________
Section ___________________________________ Date ___________

Directions: Read each item carefully and write the letter o f the correct answer in the line
before the number.
_____1. What is the type of sequence in which the difference between any two consecutive term is constant?
a. Arithmetic a. Geometric c. Harmonic d. Fibonacci

_____2. It is a nonzero constant multiplied to a term to get the next term of a geometric sequence.
a. common denominator b. common term c. common ratio d. common sequence

_____3. Which of the following shows a polynomial equation?

a. -4x4+1 b. √𝑥+3+x c. x1/6+4x2 d. 5x-6+6x+4

_____4. What is the degree of the polynomial 5x9+4x8+4x5+x3+x+205?

a. 5 b. 8 c. 9 d. 205

_____5. What do you call the angle whose vertex is on a circle and whose sides contain chords of the circle?
a. central angle b. inscribed angle c. circumscribed angle d. intercepted angle

_____6. What do you call a point on the graph where the y – coordinate is equal to zero?
a. x-intercept b. y-intercept c. x-coordinate d. turning point

______7. What do you call the different possible arrangements of set of objects where order is important?
a. combination b. counting principle c. factorial d. permutation

______8. Which of the following denotes the number of combinations of 8 things taken 4 at a time?
a. 4C8 b. 8C4 c. 8C4 d. 8C4

______9. Which of the following defines the union of two events, (A ∪ B)?
a. It refers to the set of outcomes that belong to either event.
b. It refers to the set of outcomes that belong to both events.
c. It refers to the set of outcomes that do not belong to either event.
d. It refers to the set of outcomes that belong to A but not to B.

______10. Which shows the probability of the union of two events?

a. P(A ᴜ B) = P(A) + P(B) – P(A ∪ B)
b. P(A ᴜ B) = P(A) + P(B) – P(A ∩ B)
c. P(A ᴜ B) = P(A) - P(B) – P(A ∪ B)
d. P(A ᴜ B) = P(A) - P(B) – P(A ∩ B)

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______11. What makes 𝐴 and 𝐵 mutually exclusive events?
a. if 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 = 0 b. if 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 = 1 c. if 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 = ∅ d. if 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 = n
______12. What do you call the score points which divide a distribution into four equal parts?
a. deciles b. percentiles c. median scores d. quartiles

______13. Which of the following is defined as the nine score points which divide a distribution into ten
equal parts?
a. deciles b. percentiles c. median scores d. quartiles

______14. Given the scores of 11 students in a Mathematics class, 4, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
the lower quartile is the 3rd data, so Q1 = 7. What does it mean?
a. This means 10% of the students got a score ≤ 7.
b. This means 25% of the students got a score ≤ 7.
c. This means 10% of the students got a score ≥ 7.
d. This means 25% of the students got a score ≥ 7.
_____15. Insert one arithmetic mean between 5 and 25?
a. 9 b. 10 c. 15 d. 18

_____16. What is the difference between a geometric sequence from an arithmetic sequence?
a. A geometric sequence has a common product while arithmetic sequence has a common
difference.
b. A geometric sequence has a common ratio while arithmetic sequence has a common sum.
c. A geometric sequence has a common ratio while arithmetic sequence has a common difference.
d. A geometric sequence has a common difference while arithmetic sequence has a common ratio.

_____17. What is the geometric mean between 16 and 64 if the common ratio is 2?
a. 24 b. 30 c. 32 d. 40

_____18. The polynomial P(x) has as a factor (x – r) if and only if P(r) = 0. What does it mean?
a. If (x – r) is a factor of P(x), then P(r) = 0. c. Both A and B.
b. If P(r) = 0, then (x – r) is a factor of P(x). d. None of the above.

_____19. How would you interpret the graph of a polynomial function, y = -2x+x3+3x5-4 in terms of its end
behavior?
a. The end behavior of the graph is falling to the left and rising to the right.
b. The end behavior of the graph is falling to the right and rising to the left.
c. The end behavior of the graph is both falling to the right and left.
d. The end behavior of the graph is both rising to the right and left.

_____20. In the given figure, how would you describe line segments ED and FB? E D
A. Line segments ED and FB are arcs of ⊙A. A
B. Line segments ED and FB are chords of ⊙A. F B
C. Line segments ED and FB are diameters of ⊙A.
D. Line segments ED and FB are radii of ⊙A. C

̂ as its intercepted arc. If 𝑚∠ACT=120°,

_____21. ∠ACT in the figure on the right is an inscribed angle with 𝐴𝑇
then what is 𝑚𝐴𝑇̂?
a. 60° b. 100°
c. 120° d. 240°

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_____22. In the figure below, ⃡𝑁𝑋 and ⃡𝑀𝑌 are two secants intersecting
̂ and 𝑀𝑁
outside the circle at point P. 𝑋𝑌 ̂ are two intercepted arcs of ∠XPY.
̂ = 140o, and 𝑚𝑀𝑁
If 𝑚𝑋𝑌 ̂ = 30o, then what is 𝑚∠XPY?
a. 55o c. 170 o
b. 110 o d. 180 o

_____23. Using the distance formula, what is the length of AB?

a. 10 units
b. 11.31 units
c. 16.3 units
d. 26.3 units

_____24. What are the center and the radius of the circle whose equation is given by
x2 +y2 – 8x + 2y - 32= 0?
a. The center is (4, -1) and the radius is -7. c. The center is (4, 1) and the radius is 7.
b. The center is (4, -1) and the radius is 7. d. The center is (-4, -1) and the radius is 7.

_____25. The radius of a circle has endpoints (2,1) and (1, -2). What is the equation that defines the circle if
its center is at the first quadrant?
a. (x - 1)2 + (y + 2)2 = 9 c. (x - 1)2 + (y + 2)2 =10
b. (x + 2)2 + (y - 1)2 = 10 d. (x - 2)2 + (y - 1)2 = 10

_____26. What is the value of r if P(10, r) = 604 800?

a. 5 b. 6 c. 7 d. 8

_____27. Which of the following situations illustrates permutation?

I. Assembling a jigsaw puzzle.
II. Determining the top 3 winners in a beauty pageant.
III. Choosing two household chores to do before dinner.
IV. Assigning telephone numbers to homes
a. I and II only b. I, II, and III c. I, II, and IV d. I, II, III, and IV

_____28. If ice cream is served in a cone, in how many ways can Jaztein choose his three-flavor ice cream
scoop if there are seven available flavors?
a. 35 b. 36 c. 36 d. 37

_____29. You are given a fair die that has six sides with 1 to 6 dots on them. Each side is equally likely to
come up when the die is tossed or rolled. What is the probability of rolling a one or two?
1 1 2 1
a. b. c. d.
6 2 3 3

_____30. Jin’s score in a 100-item test in Mathematics was the median score. What is her percentile rank?
a. 25th b. 35th c. 50th d. 75th

_____31. In the set of scores: 21, 22, 24, 25, 31, 31, 32, 43, 45, 46, what is the 5th decile score?
a. 21 b. 24 c. 25 d. 31

_____32. Which of the following is not a factor of x3-7x+6?

a. x-1 b. x+1 c. x+3 d. x-2

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 ➢ FOR ITEM NUMBERS 33 – 34
A couple wishes to have 4 children,
_____ 33. What is the probability that the couple will have 3 boys and 1 girl?
1 1 3 1
a. 8 b. c. d.
4 8 2

_____ 34. What is the probability that the couple will have 2 boys and 2 girls?
1 1 3 1
a. 8 b. c. d.
4 8 2

_____35. What is the sum of the first 35 terms of the arithmetic sequence, 3, 7, 11, 15 …?
a. 2,485 b. 2,548 c. 4,582 d. 5,842

_____36. What is the 13th term of the geometric sequence, 2,4,8,16, …?

a. 4,096 b. 8,192 c. 16,384 d. 17,834

_____37. Yoongi is a working student who lives in San Quintin. He is selling “longganisa” every weekend to
suffice his needs in his studies for the whole week. From his weekly allowance, he saved ₱50 on
the first week, ₱100 on the second, and ₱150 on the third week, what is his total savings after 20
weeks?
a. ₱9,500 b. ₱10,000 c. ₱10,500 d. ₱11,500

_____38. What is the quotient when you divide (2x2-x-28) by (x-4)?

a. x + 7 b. 2x + 7 c. 4x + 7 d. 3x – 7

_____39. A rectangular plot has an area of (6𝑥 2 − 5𝑥 − 6) square meters. Its length is (3𝑥 + 2) meters.
Find the width of the rectangular plot.
a. (6𝑥 + 9) 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 b. (6𝑥 − 9)𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 c. (2𝑥 + 3)𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 d. (2𝑥 − 3)𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠

_____40. A car manufacturer determined that its profit P, in thousands of pesos, can be modeled
by the function P =0.000225x4 + 2x – 3, where x represents the number of cars sold.
What is the profit (in thousands) at x = 150?
a. ₱101.25 b. ₱114,203.25 c. ₱125,297.25 d. ₱5,265,000.25

_____41. A circular garden has pathways that are tangent to the garden
whose center is 10 meters away from the entrance
as shown in the figure. If the radius of the circular garden is
5 meters, which of the following is the length of each pathway?
a. 3√5 m b. 5√3 m c. 25 m d. 75 m

_____42. Parking lots near the Dipalo River Park are highly needed because of the number of tourists who
are visiting. With this, Larry decided to make the space beside their house a parking lot to earn
some money. It can accommodate 9 4-wheeled cars. In how many ways can 5 cars be parked if
there are 9 available parking spaces?
a. 2,520 ways b. 3,150 ways c. 6,720 ways d. 15,120 ways

_____43. A card is drawn from a standard deck of playing cards. What is the probability of drawing
a red card or an ace?
7 6 5 4
a. b. c. d.
13 13 13 13

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 ➢ FOR ITEM NUMBERS 44-45
The table at the right illustrates the scores of 50 learners already grouped using a
class size/width of 5. The scores are tabulated in column 1 and the corresponding
frequencies in column 2.

_____44. What is the 1st quartile?

a. 28 b. 28.21
c. 40.29 d. 35.78

_____45. What is the 7th decile?

a. 39.14 b. 39.25 c. 40.29 d. 40.34

_____46. A group of learners from the Schools Division of Pangasinan II conducted mini research
on the results of the scores of the Grade 10 learners in the Division Diagnostic Test in
Mathematics during the first grading period. They conducted the research at San Quintin
National High School of the 6th district for the SY 2022-2023. They found out that the 3rd
quartile score of the learners is 63. What conclusion can they make?

I. This means that 75% of the Grade 10 learners obtained a score less than or equal to 63.
II. This implies that only 25% of the learners got scores greater than 63.
III. This means that 25% of the Grade 10 learners obtained a score less than or equal to 63.
IV. This implies that only 25% of the learners got scores less than 63.
a. I and II only b. I, II, and III c. I, II, and IV d. I, II, III, and IV

______47. The town of San Quintin, specifically Barangay Alac is experiencing water interruptions
every now and then. If you are a researcher, what is the best mini-research title that
you would suggest for this problem?
a. The number of times the water interruption occurs in the town of San Quintin.
b. The number of hours of water interruption in a week in Alac, San Quintin.
c. The number of times of water interruptions in a week in the town of San Quintin.
d. The number of hours of water interruption in a week in the town of San Quintin

➢ FOR ITEM NUMBERS 48-49

The table shows the daily amount of time
spent by the 50 randomly selected Grade 10
learners in playing online games.

______48. If the 8th decile of the given distribution is 130.5,

what does this mean?
a. This means that 20% of the learners spend less than or equal to 130.5 mins playing.
b. This means that 13.5% of the learners spend less than or equal to 130.5 mins playing.
c. This means that 80% of the learners spend less than or Class Interval/ Frequency
equal to 130.5 mins playing. Scores (f)
d. This means that 130.5% of the learners spend less than or 46-50 3
equal to 80 mins playing. 41-45 9
36-40 12
31-35 8
26-30 11
21-25 7

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_____49. Nicole’s time of playing online games is in the 5th decile, which of the following statements is
true?
a. 50% of the learners spend more time playing online games than Nicole.
b. Nicole spends less than an hour playing video games.
c. 50% of the learners spend less or equal time playing online games than Nicole.
c. Nicole only spends 98 mins of his time playing video games.

_____50. Start at 27 and create a pattern with the rule of adding 13 to get the succeeding terms. What is the
fifth number in the sequence?
a. 77 b. 78 c. 79 d. 80

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ANSWER KEY: Mathematics 10

1. a 26. c
2. c 27. c
3. a 28. a
4. c 29. d
5. b 30. c
6. a 31. d
7. d 32. b
8. b 33. b
9. a 34. c
10. b 35. a
11. c 36. b
12. d 37. c
13. a 38. b
14. b 39. d
15. c 40. b
16. c 41. b
17. c 42. d
18. c 43. a
19. a 44. a
20. b 45. b
21. d 46. a
22. a 47. b
23. b 48. c
24. b 49. c
25. d 50. c