LAPERO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

North District
Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte

Fourth Periodical Examination

Grade 8

Date:_____________

Name: _______________________________ Year & Section: ________________ Score: _____

I. Multiple choice. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which measure of central tendency is generally used in determining the size of the most saleable
shoes in the department store?
a. Mean b. median c. mode d. range
2. Which measure of variability is considered most reliable?
a. Range b. variance c. average deviation d. standard deviation
3. For the set of data consisting of 8, 9, 10, 10 which statement is true?
a. Mean = mode b. median = mode c. mean = median d. mean < median
4. Which measure of central tendency is greatly affected by extreme scores?
a. Mean b. median c. mode d. none of the three
5. Margie 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. 76 b. 77 c. 78 d. 79
6. What is the median age of a group of employees whose ages are 36, 38, 28, 30, 26, and 25 years?
a. 25 b. 26 c. 25 d. 30
7. Nine people gave contributions in pesos: 100, 200, 100, 300, 300, 200, 200, 150, 100 and 100 for a
door prize. What is the median contribution?
a. Php 100 b. Php 150 c. Php 175 d. Php 200
8. If the heights in centimetres of a group of students are 180, 180, 173, 170, and 167, what is the mean height
of these students?
a. 170 b. 173 c. 174 d. 180
9. If the range of a set of scores is 14 and the lowest score is 7, what is the highest score?
a. 21 b. 24 c. 14 d. 7
10. What is the standard deviation of the scores 5, 4, 3, 6, and 2?
a. 2 b. 2.5 c. 3 d. 3.5
11. What is the average height of each team in inches?
Inches: 72, 73, 76, 76, 78, 67, 72, 76, 76, 84
a. 76 b. 78 c. 72 d. 75
12. Electra Company measures each cable wire as it comes off the product line. The lengths in centimetres of
the first batch of ten cable wires were: 10, 15, 14, 11, 13, 10, 10, 11, 12, and 13. Find the standard deviation
of these lengths.
a. 1.7 b. 1.8 C. 11.9 D. 10.9
13. What is the variance in item 12?
a. 3.4 b. 3.3 c. 3.24 d. 2.89

For Items 14-15

A video shop owner wants to find out the performances sales of his two branch stores for the last five months. The
table shows their monthly sales in thousands of pesos.

Branch A 20 18 18 19 17
Branch B 17 15 25 17 18
14. What are the average sales of each store, in thousand pesos?
a. 18 b. 18.4 c. 19 d. 19. 5
15. Which store is consistently performing? Why?
For items 16 – 20 refer to the data below. Choose the letter that corresponds to the best answer.

Class Frequency
46-50 1
41-45 2
36-40 3
31-35 10
26-30 6
21-25 9
16-20 5
11-15 6
6-10 4
1-5 2

16. What is the class size?

a. 4 b. 3 c. 5 d. 6
17. What is the value of the median score?
a. 24.10 b. 24.29 c. 24.15 d. 24.39
18. What is the range of the given set of data?
a. 50 b. 50.5 c. 49.5 d. 99.5
19. What is the variance?
a. 119.59 b. 119.49 c. 119. 40 d. 119.50
20. What is the standard deviation?
a. 10.90 b. 10.91 c. 10.92 d. 10.93
21. Which of the following DOES NOT belong to the group?
a. Chance b. Interpretation c. Possibilities d. uncertainty

22. All the possible outcomes that can occur when a coin is tossed twice are listed in the box. What is the
probability of having a head?
1 1 3
a. 4
b. 2 c. . 4 d .1

HH TH

TT HT

23. The local weather forecaster said that there is a 20% chance of rain tomorrow. What is the probability that
it will not rain tomorrow?
a. 0.2 b. 0.8 c. 20 d. 80
24. A relative frequency distribution for scores in a 5- item test is provided in the table below.

Score 0 1 2 3 4 5
Relative 0.105 0.316 0.352 0.180 0.043 0.004
Frequency

Suppose that the passing score is 4, what is the probability that a randomly selected student failed the quiz?

a. 0.047 b. 0.575 c. 0.773 d. 0.953

 25. A spinner with three equal divisions was spinner 1000 times. The following information was recorded. What
is the probability of the spinner landing on RED?
Outcome Blue Red Yellow
Spin 448 267 285

a. 27% b. 29% c. 45% d. 73%

blue
yellow

red

26. Suppose you toss two fair coins once, how many possible outcomes are there?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 4 d. 8
27. A balanced die is rolled. What is the probability of rolling a number that is not 3?
0 1 5 6
a. 6
or 0 b. 6 c. 6 d. 6 or 1
28. In a 500 – ticket draw for an educational prize, Ana’s name was written on 41 tickets. what is the probability
That she would win?
a. 0.082 b. 0.122 c. 0.41 d. 0.82
29. 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.
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c. The probability of getting a head when a coin is tossed can be expressed as 2, 0.5, or 50%.
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d. The probability of rolling 7 in a die is 7.
30. The weather forecaster has announced the Region 1 has rainy (R), partly cloudy (PR), and cloudy (C)
2
weather. If the chance of having r is twice as the probability of PR which is , what is the correct table for
7
probability?

a. c.
Outcome R PR C
Outcome R PR C
Probability 1 4 2 Probability 4 2 1
7 7 7 7 7 7

b. d.
Outcome R PR C
Outcome R PR C
Probability 1 2 4 Probability 4 1 2
7 7 7 7 7 7
31. A glass jar contains 40 red, green, blue, and yellow marbles. The probability of drawing a single green
1
marble at random is . What does this mean?
5

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.

32. In a restaurant, you have a dinner choice of one main dish, one vegetable, and one drink. The choices for
the main dish are pork and chicken meat. The vegetable choices are broccoli and cabbage. The drink choices
are juice and water. How many choices are possible?
a. 8 b. 10 c. 12 d. 14
33. Arlene Joy got coins from her pocket which accidentally rolled on the floor. If there were 8 possible
outcomes, how many coins fell on the floor?.
a. 3 b. 4 c. 8 d. 16
34. In a family of 3 children, what is the probability that the middle child is a boy?
1 1 1 1
a. b. c. d.
8 4 3 2
35. Jun rolls two dice. The first die shows a 5. The second die rolls under his desk and he cannot see it. Now,
what is the probability that both dice show 5?
1 1 9 1
a. 36 b. 6 c. 36 d. 3
36. Mrs. Castro asked her students to do an activity. Afterwards, her students noticed that that the
experimental probability of getting tails is 48%, while the mathematical / theoretical probability is 50%.
Being an attentive student, how would you explain this to your classmates?
a. The experimental probability is wrong.
b. We should always rely on mathematical/ theoretical probability.
c. It is normal for experimental probabilities to vary from the theoretical probabilities but for a large
number of trials, the two will be very close.
d. It is abnormal for the experimental probabilities to differ from the mathematical /theoretical
probabilities because the results must be the same.
37. You decided to order a pizza but you have to choose the type of crust and the toppings. If there are only
6 possible combinations of ordering a pizza, from which of the following should you choose?
a. Crust: thin or deep dish
Topping: cheese or pepperoni
b. . Crust: thin or deep dish
Topping: cheese, bacon, or pepperoni
c. Crust: thin or deep dish
Topping: cheese, bacon, sausage, or pepperoni
d. Crust: thin or deep dish
38. There are four teams in a basketball tournament. Team A has 25% chance of winning. Team B has the
same chance as Team D which has 5% more than team A. Team C has half the chance of winning as
team B. Which of the following has the correct table of probabilities for winning the tournament?
a.
Team A B C D
Probability 25% 20% 20% 35%
of Winning

b.

Team A B C D

Probability 25% 30% 15% 30%

of Winning
 c.

Team A B C D
Probability 25% 15% 15% 45%
of Winning

d.
Team A B C D
Probability 25% 15% 10% 50%
of Winning

39. 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 favoured the heads.

b. I think the coin is biased because it is expected to turn up tail for the next experiments.
c. I think the coin I not biased because both faces of the coin have equal chances of turning up.
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d. I think the coin is not biased because the probability of turning heads up is 4 while that of tails is
1
only 4.

40. Your best friend asked you to accompany him to carnival to play games of chances. According to him, his
horoscope states that he is so lucky that day and he wants to try his luck at the carnival. How will you convince
him not to go to the carnival?
a. I will ask him to review very well his notes on probability so that he can apply them to a real- life
situation like this.
b. I will tell him that what is written in the horoscope is sometimes true and sometimes false so he
would rather not go to the carnival.
c. I will l give him instances wherein he could see the real picture of having a very little chance of winning
so that he will not be wasting his money and time.
d. I will convince him not to go to the carnival this time because we have to finish first our project in
Probability. Anyway, there will be other times to go and enjoy all the games there.

II. Solve the following(20pts.)

Complete the frequency distribution table by finding the unknown values.

Scores of Grade 8- Avocado Students in the 4th Periodic Test in Mathematics

Score Frequency Class Mark FX Less Than Lower Class

(F) (X) Cumulative Boundary(lb)
Frequency(<cf)
46-50 2
41-45 9
36-40 13
31-35 11
26-30 10
21-25 5
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