DIRECTION: COPY AND ANSWER IN YOUR 12. What does �25 mean?

A. First quartile B. Median C. Fifth decile D. Mean

MATH NOTEBOOK.
1. Twenty-five percent of the math class whose
13. Zia’s score is on the 99th percentile on a test. How
performance is below average will be subjected
should we interpret this information?
to a remedial class. A teacher wants to divide the
A. Zia got 99% of the questions on the test right.
class into 4 equal groups. Which measures of
B. Zia got 99% of the questions on the test wrong.
position is most appropriate to use?
C. Zia scored better than 99% of people who took this test.
A. Decile C. Quartile B. Median D. Percentile
D. Zia scored worse than 99% of people who took this test.
2. Which of the following is NOT equivalent to the
14. Rica and her brother are both 65 inches tall. Rica is in
median of a given set of data?
the 85th percentile for height for her age and her little
A. 5th decile C. 2nd quartile
brother is in the 90th percentile. Who is taller for their
B. 50th percentile D. 60th percentile
age?
A. Cannot be determined.
3. Which two measures pertain to the same value?
B. They are the same, 65 inches.
A. �4 and �40 B. Median and �4
C. Brother, he is taller than more people.
C. �3 and �3 D. �3 and �75
D. Melissa, she’s taller than more people.
4. What does �25 mean?
15. John took an exam. His score belongs to the 8th decile.
A. First quartile B. Fifth decile
Should Jose be pleased with his score?
C. Median D. Mean
A. Yes, because his score is above to the usual passing
rate of which is 75%
5. Mark’s score in a 50-item test was the median score.
B. Yes, because his score was below the 20% of the
What is his percentile rank?
examinees who took the test.
A. 25th B. 75th C. 50th D. 99th
C. No, because his score is above to the usual passing rate
of which is 75%
6. If the plastic bottles collected (in kilos) during the
D. No, because his score was surpassed by 20% of the
school’s waste segregation scheme has a 75th percentile
examinees who took the test.
of 17.64, it means that 75% of the recyclables collected is
_____ 17.64
(FOR 16 – 19)
A. less than B. equal to
Given the list of the number of boxes of cookies sold in a
C. greater than D. 75% of
day by 15 different vendors: 12, 9, 11, 11, 21, 15, 15, 18,
19, 12, 13, 10, 11, 17, 16
7. What percent of the data fall above the upper quartile?
16. What is the average number of boxes sold by the
A. 10% B. 20% C. 50% D. 75%
vendors? A. 12 B. 14 C. 13 D. 15
8. Jaica wants to know her class standing in the recent
17. What is upper quartile? A. 17 B. 19 C. 18 D. 20
third quarter periodic test in different subject areas.
What statistical tool can she use?
18. What percent of the data fall under the upper quartile?
A. Measures of Position B. Measures of Variability
A. 10% B.50% C. 25% D. 80%
C. Measures of Dispersion D. Measures of Central
Tendency
19. What percent of the data fall above the upper quartile?
A. 10% B. 50% C. 20% D. 75%
8. The owner of company A wants to know the second
quartile age of his employees. The following are the ages
20. Mrs. Rosales wants to classify the students by their
of his employees: 36, 38, 28, 20, 26, 45, 28, 27, 36, 44, 35.
BMI. She wants to divide the class into ten equal groups.
Which of the following best describes the second quartile
Which measures of position is most appropriate to use? A.
age? A. 35 B. 40 C. 36 D. 45
Decile B. Quartile C. Median D. Percentile
10. Which of the following statements is TRUE about the
21. Which one of the following is NOT a measure of
quartile system?
position? A. Decile B. Quartile C. Median D. Percentile
A. The third quartile will always be less than the first
quartile.
22. Which of the following represents the lower quartile
B. The first quartile is the median of the upper half of the
of a given set of data? A. 50th percentile
data.
B. 3 quartile. C. 25th percentile
rd
D. 2nd decile
C. The third quartile is the median of the upper half of the
data.
22. President of the Senate wants to identify the top 3%
D. The first quartile will always be greater than the third
of the poorest city in the Philippines. To choose, he needs
quartile.
to divide all of the cities into a hundred equal parts.
Which measures of position is most appropriate to use?
11. The first quartile of the ages of 530 grade10 students
A. Decile B. Quartile C. Median D. Percentile
is 16 years old. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Most of the students are below 16 years old.
24. Which of the following terms best describes the
B. Twenty-five percent of the students are 16 years old.
middle score of a given set of data?
C. One hundred fifty students are younger than 16 years
A. Mode B. Median C. Mean D. Standard Deviation
old.
D. Seventy-five percent of the students are 16 years old
and above.
25. Kurt got a score of 35 which is equivalent to 70th 37. Angela is the secretary in a big company. Her salary
percentile in a test. Which of the following is NOT true? belongs to the 7th decile. Should Angela be glad with her
A. Her score is below the 5th decile. salary?
B. She scored higher than 70% of her classmates. A. No, because the salary is too small for her.
C. Thirty percent of the class got scores of 35 and above. B. Yes, because the salary is too small for her.
D. If the passing mark is the first quartile, she passed the C. No, because Angela has a higher salary than the 70% of
test. the employees.
26. What is the 5th Decile age of the students whose ages D. Yes, because Angela has a higher salary than the 70%
are 14, 14, 15, 14, 16, 18, 15, 17, and 16 years? of the employees.
A. 10 B. 16 C. 15 D. 17
(FOR 38 – 41) A teacher gave a 10-item test to 9 students,
27. Rhaizen ranks 10th in a class of 40. His percentile rank the scores were: 5, 6, 2, 7, 9, 8, 7, 8, 10. 31.
is ______. A. 10 B. 50 C. 25 D. 75 38. What is the median (�2) of the given set of data?
A. 6 B. 8 C. 7 D. 9
28. If Raymart’s score is on the scored 25th percentile of
an exam, which of the following is TRUE? 39. What is �1?
A. 6 B. 8 C. 7 D. 9
A. His score in the test is 25.
B. 75% of the class scored worse than he did. 40. What is �3?
C. He is at the top 25 scorer on the exam. A. 6 B. 8 C. 7 D. 9
D. 75% of the class scored better than he did.
41. What is the interquartile range?
29. In a group of 55 examinees taking the 50-item test, A. 2 B. 4 C. 3 D. 5
Riza obtained a score of 38 which is higher than the
scores of 41 other examinees. This implies that her score 42. What is the mean?
is _________. 43. What is the mode?
A. at the upper quartile B. below the 3rd quartile 44. What is the range?
45. What is the Fifth decile?
C. below the 50th percentile D. equal to the 55th
46. What is the P75?
percentile 47. What is the D4?
48. What is the P88?
30. Nine people gave contributions in pesos for a door 49. What is the D8?
prize. The table below indicate price contributed by each 50. What is the P25?
person:
₱150 ₱200 ₱200 ₱300 ₱300 ₱100 ₱150 ₱100 ₱100
What is the 50th percentile of the contribution?
A. 100 pesos B. 175 pesos
C. 150 pesos D. 200 pesos

31. In the set of scores:

16, 18, 20, 22, 17, 24, 10, 15 and 9, what is the lower
quartile score? A. 9 B. 15 C. 10 D. 18

32. It is the difference between upper quartile and lower

quartile? A. Median B. Interquartile Range
C. 75th percentile D. Linear Interpolation

33. If �1 = 13.3 and �3 = 29, find the value of

interquartile range.
A. 12.2 B. 16.3 C. 15.7 D. 18.5

34. Which of the following statements is TRUE about the

quartile system?
A. The third quartile will always be less than the first quartile.
B. The first quartile is the median of the upper half of the data.
C. The third quartile is the median of the upper half of the data.
D. The first quartile will always be greater than the third
quartile.

35. The first quartile of the ages of 530 students is 16

years old. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Most of the students are below 16 years old.
B. Twenty-five percent of the students are 16 years old.
C. One hundred fifty students are younger than 16 years old.
D. Seventy-five percent of the students are 16 years old
and above.

36. In an 80-item test, Girlie got a score of 65 which is the

third quartile. What does this mean?
A. She got the highest score.
B. She surpassed 75% of her classmates.
C. Her score is higher than 25% of her classmates.
D. Seventy-five percent of the class did not pass the test.