Parada National High School

Parada, Sta. Maria, Bulacan

Fourth Periodical Test in Mathematics VIII
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1. A collection of facts or information from which conclusions may be drawn.

a. Frequency
b. Data
c. Statistics
d. Probability
Study the data and answer items 2-4
The scores of Red Team in the volleyball
tournament are:
13,15,14,13,14,14,15,12
2. Which
value is the mean score?
a. 14.00
b. 13.75
c. 13.50
d. 13.00
3. What is the median score?
a. 15
b. 14
c. 13
d. 12
4. What is the mode of the score?
a. 14
b. 13.75
c. 13
d. 12.75
5. The mean of the ages in years of Mathematics Club officers is 16. This means that
a. All Mathematics Club Officers are 16 years old.
b. The arithmetic average age of Mathematics Club officers is 16 years.
c. Most of the mathematics Club Officers is above 16 years old.
d. Most of the mathematics Club Officers is below 16 years old.
6. Which measure of central tendency is generally used in determining the size of the
most saleable shoes in a department store?
a. Mode
b. Mean
c. Median
d. Range
7. For the set of the data consisting of 8,8,9,10,10, which statement is true?
a. Mean < median
b. mean = mode c. median = mode d. mean = median
8. A measure that describes how spread out or scattered a set of data.
a. Measure Central Tendency
c. measure of dispersion
b. Measure of variability
d. both b & c
9. The average amount by which individual data items in a set of data differ from the
arithmetic mean of all the data in the set.
a. Mean
b. Standard Deviation
c. variance
d. none of the
choices
10.Find the range of the given set of scores: 16, 17, 17, 18, 18, 19, 20, 21, 26 and 29.
a. 13
b. 16
c. 18
d. 28
11.The range of the ages of the Glee Club Officers is 5. Which means that
a. The difference of all the ages of the officers is 5
b. One qualifies to be an officer if he is 5 years below the mean age.
c. One qualifies to be an officer if he is 5 years above the mean age.
d. The difference between the age of the eldest and the youngest officers is 5
years.
For the items 12-17 refer to the data below.
Class
Frequency
46-50
2
41-45
3
36-40
10
31-35
9
26-30
6
12.What is the class size?
a. 4
b. 3
c. 5
d. 6
13.Find the mean.
a. 35.67
b. 35.68
c. 35.72
d. 35.00
14.Find the median class.

a. 31-35
b. 36-40
c. 41-45
d. 9
15.Which value is the median score?
a. 34.5
b. 35.5
c. 36.5
d. 37.5
16.Determine the modal class.
a. 31-35
b. 36-40
c. 41-45
d. 10
17.What is the mode?
a. 39.575
b. 39.775
c. 39.875
d. 39.075
18.The measure or value which occurs most frequently in a set of data.
a. Frequency
b. Mean
c. Median
d. Mode
19.The midpoint of a Class.
a. Class Width
b. Class Mark
c. Class size
d. Class Internal
20.The middle entry or term in a set of data arranged in numerical order (either increasing
or decreasing).
a. Median
b. Mode
c. Mean
d. Median
Class
21.The mode height of the students is 1.57 meters. What does it imply?
a. There are more students whose heights are below 1.57 meters
b. The average height of the students is 1.57 meters.
c. Most of the students have a height of 1.57 meters.
d. Half of the students have a height below 1.57 meters and half of them have
heights above 1.57 meters.
22.David has grades 86, 68 and 79 in her first three tests in Algebra. What grade must she
obtain on the fourth test to get an average of 78?
a. 77
b. 76
c. 79
d. 78
23.Which measure of variability is considered most reliable?
a. Average deviation b. Standard Deviation
c. Range
d. Variance
24.Find the mean deviation of the following data: 12, 17, 13, 18, 18, 15, 14, 17, 11.
a. 2.22
b. 3.83
c. 4.44
d. 5.55
For items (25-27) Use the data in Items (12-17)
25.What is the range value?
a. 29
b. 28
c. 26
d. 25
26.Find the variance.
a. 32.3
b. 32.4
c. 32.7
d. 32.9
27.Which value is the standard deviation
a. 5.73
b. 5.72
c. 5.69
d. 5.68
28.Which measure of central tendency is greatly affected by extreme scores?
a. Mean
b. median
c. mode
d. none of the
three
29.If the range of a set is 15 and the lowest score is 8, what is the highest score?
a. 23
b. 22
c. 15
d. 16
30.The median score of II-Ilang-Ilang in their Quiz is 24. Which of the following is the best
interpretation?
a. Half of the students have a score below 24 and half of them have score above
24.
b. There are more students whose scores are below 24
c. Most of the students score is 24
d. The average score
31.Branch of Mathematics that deals with uncertainty. It is measure or estimation of how
likely it is that an event will occur.
a. Statistics
b. Probability
c. Experimental Probability
d.
Theoretical Probability
32.Activities such as tossing or flipping a coin, rolling without looking which could be
repeated over and over again and which have a well-defined result.
a. Sample space
b. Probability
c. Experimental
d.
Fundamental Counting Principle
33.Suppose you toss three pair of coins once, how many possible outcomes are there?
a. 8
b. 16
c. 32
d. 64
34.You tossed a five- peso coin five times and you got heads each time. You tossed again
and still a head turned up. Do you think the coin is BIASED? Why?
a. I think the coin is biased because it favored heads.

b. I think the coin is biased because it is expected to turn up head for the next
experiments.
c. I think the coin is not biased because both faces of the coin have equal chances
of turning up.
d. I think the coin is not biased because the probability of turning heads up is
while that of tails is only
35.Which of the following is true?
a. Answering a true/false-type question has one possible outcome.
b. Flipping a coin thrice has 3 possible outcomes.
c. The probability of getting a head when a coin is tossed can be expressed as ,
0.5, or 50%
d. The probability of rolling 7 in a die is 1/7
36.The probability of an outcome of an event based on an experiment.
a. Experimental Probability b. Theoretical Probability c. Sample Space d. Sample
Point
37.The probability that a certain outcome will occur as determined through reasoning or
calculation.
a. Experimental Probability b. Theoretical Probability c. Sample Space d. Sample
Point
38.A spinner with three equal divisions was spinned 1,000 times. The following information
was recorded. What is the probability of the spinner landing on RED?
Outcome
Blue
Red
Yellow
Spins
448
267
285
a. 27%
b. 29%
c. 45%
d. 73%
39.A balanced die is rolled. What is the probability of rolling a number that is not 3?
a.

0
6

or 0

6
6

or 1

b.

1
6

c.

5
6

d.

40. A die 12 sides is rolled. What is the probability of rolling a number less than 11?
a. 1/12
b. 10
c. 5/6
d. 11/12
41.A bag contains 6 red marbles, 3 blue marbles, and 7 green marbles. If a marble is
randomly selected from the bag, what is the probability that it is blue?
a. 1/3
b. 3/16
c. 1/13
d. 1/7
For the items 42-44
Describe the likelihood of the statement a bag has 12 red balls, 5 green balls and 3
blue balls.
a. Very unlikely
b. unlikely
c. even chance
d. likely
42.Choosing a green ball
43.Choosing a red ball
44.Choosing a white ball
45.A glass jar contains 40 marbles which are red, green, blue, and yellow. The probability
of drawing a single green marble at random is 1\5. What does it mean?
a. There are 5 green marbles in the glass jar
b. There are 8 green marbles in the glass jar
c. There are more green marbles than the others.
d. There is only one green marble in the glass jar.
46.Tin tin got coins from the pocket which accidentally rolled on the floor. If there were 8
possible outcomes, how many coins fell on the floor?
a. 16
b. 8
c. 4
d. 3
47.What is the probability that the sum of the faces of the two dice is 8?
a. 4/12
b. 5/12
c. 5/36
d. 4/36
For the items 48-50
A tray contains sandwiches of the following kinds: 4 ham sandwiches, 5 cheese
sandwiches, 2 tuna sandwiches, and 1 egg sandwich. What is the probability of picking
48.A tuna sandwich?

a. 1/4
b. 1/6
49.A ham sandwich or cheese?
a. 3/4
b. 2/3
50.A sandwich which is not egg?
a. 1/6
b. 1/5

c. 2/11

d. 1/5

c. 9/11

d. 3/5

c. 1/11

d. 11/12

When nothing is sure, everything is possible

-Margaret Atwood