Objectives

In this learning session, the participants will

be able to:
1. gain clearer understanding on the contents
and processes in teaching the Measures of
Position.
2. discuss difficulties related to the teaching
and learning the Measures of Position.
3. identify and share ways of addressing the
difficulties in teaching the Measures of
Position.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
LEARNING COMPETENCIES:
1. Illustrate the following measures of position:
quartiles, deciles, and percentiles.
2. Calculate specific measure of position of a set
of data.
3. Interpret measures of position.
4. Solve problems involving measures of
position.
5. Formulate statistical mini-research.
6. Use appropriate measures of position and
other statistical methods in analyzing and
interpreting research data.
Lesson1:
Measures of Position for
Ungrouped Data

a. Quartiles
b. Deciles
c. Percentiles
Lesson 2:
Measures of Position for
Grouped Data

a. Quartiles

b. Deciles

c. Percentiles
Activity 1 “ What Is Your Position?
1. Identify the alphabet given its position in the
English alphabets.

2. Determine the position of the given letter from

the list of English alphabets.
 Activity 2: “ Find the Center . . .”
 The midpoint between two numbers x and y in the
number line is x + y .
2

A B C

 x x+y y
 2
1. Find the coordinate of the midpoint Q1 of line
segment AB.
A Q1 B

x x+y
2
2. Line segment AC represents a distribution.
What does point B represents in the
distribution?
Activity 4: “Form Your Line”
Situation:
Eileen is the 4th tallest student in a line of 10 students.
If she is the 4th tallest student, then 6 students are
shorter than her.

It also means that 60% of the students are shorter than

Eileen.

If you are the 8th tallest student in a line of 10 students,

how many percent of the students are shorter than
you?
 Activity 5: “Where Do I Belong?”
Situations:
1. A group of students obtained the
following scores in their statistics
quiz: 8, 2, 5, 4. 8, 5, 7, 1, 3, 6, 9.
Locate Q1, Q2, and Q3.
2. Find Q1, Q2, and Q3 of the scores of 10
students in mathematics seatwork:
7, 4, 8, 9,3, 6, 7, 4, 5, 8
 Observe how Q1, Q2, and Q3 are obtained from the
data set.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 5, 6, 7, 8 , 8, 9

Q1= 3 lower quartile

Q2= 5 median/ middle value
Q3= 8 upper quartile
 The Quartiles for Ungrouped Data
 The quartiles are 3 score points which divide the
distribution of scores into four equal parts. Hence,
twenty –five percent of the distribution are below Q1,
fifty-percent are below Q2, and seventy-five percent
are below Q3 where Q1 is the lower quartile, Q2 is the
median or the middle value and Q3 is the upper
quartile.

25% of the data has a value ≤ Q1.

50% of the data has a value ≤ Q2.
75% of the data has a value ≤ Q3.
Some problems involving quartiles for ungrouped data
1. Aling Goding, the owner of “ Bacarreñas Restaurant” had
recorded the number of customers who patronized their
menu each day for 11 days and the results are as follows:
24, 30, 19, 39, 29, 15, 18, 30, 12, 24, 31. Find the lower
quartile and the upper quartile.

Ans. 12, 15, 18, 19, 24, 24, 29, 30, 30, 31, 39
2. The lower quartile of a data set is 8th data value( 8th
element in the list). How many data values are there
in the data set?

Q1 Q2 Q3
1, 2,, . . ., 7, 8, 9, 10, . . .,16, 17, . . . 23, 24, . . ., 30, 31

7 + 7 + 1 - number of values in the lower half

7 + 7 + 1 – number of values in the upper half
1 – value – median
ans. 31 values
Another solution:

¼(n+1)=8
( n + 1 ) = 32
n = 31
Positions of Quartiles for Ungrouped Data

Position of Q1 = ¼( n + 1 )

Position of Q2 = ½ ( n + 1 )

Position of Q3 = 3/4 ( n + 1)
Deciles fpr Ungrouped Data

The deciles are nine score – points

which divide a distribution of
scores into 10 equal parts. They
are denoted by D1, D2, D3, . . . , D10

Deciles are computed in the same way as

quartiles are computed
Percentiles of Ungrouped Data
The percentiles are 99 score points which
divide a distribution of score into 100
equal parts. They are denoted by P1, P2,
P3, . . . P98, P99. It is used to
characterized values according to the
percentage below them.
Measures of Position for
Grouped Data

The Quartiles, the Deciles

and the Percentiles for
Grouped Data
Application
Dennies and Christine scored 32 and 23
respectively in the National Career Assessment
Examination(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.(posted in a manila paper)
 1. Complete the table. Expalin how you arrived at
your answer.

2. Find the 3rd quartile, 72th percentile, and the 8th

decile of the set of scores.

3. What is the percentile rank of Dennies and

Christine.

4. Based on their percentile and percentile ranks,

will Dennies and Christine receive a scholarship?
Explain your answer.