Department of Education

Region 1
Dagupan City Division
JUDGE JOSE DE VENECIA SR. TECHNICAL-VOCATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOL
Bolosan, Dagupan City

FOURTH QUARTER EXAMINATION

SY 2017-2018
MATHEMATICS 8

Section: ______________________Subject Teacher:__________________________________

Name: _________________________________________Room No._____Seat No. __________

I. Directions: Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided.

1. Which measures of central tendency is generally used in determining the size of the most saleable shoes
in a department store?
A.mean B. median C. mode D. range

2. The reliable measure of variability is ______.

A. range B. variance C. average deviation D. standard deviation

3. Which measure of central tendency is greatly affected by extreme scores?

A. mean B. median C. mode D. none of the above

4. Fe is hosting a kiddie party in her house. Six kids ages 12 and 5 babies ages 2 attended the party. Which
measures of central tendency is appropriate to use to find the average age?
A. mean B. median C. mode D. range

Use the frequency distribution below to answer question number 5:

Age of 50 Employees in Ong Rice Mill

Age of Employees No. of Employees
60-69 12
50-59 8
40-49 12
30-39 13
20-29 5

5. Which measure(s) of variability is/are best to use in order to find the interval among the ages of the
employees in Ong Rice Mill?
A. range B. standard deviation C. variance D. both b & c

6. Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?

A. chance B. interpretation C. possibilities D. uncertainty

7. Margie obtained grades of 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

8. Nine people gave contribution 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

9. If the heights in centimeters 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

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. Electra Company measures each cable wire as it comes off the product line. The lengths in centimeters
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

12. What is the variance in item 11?

A. 3.4 B. 3.3 C. 3.24 D. 2.89
For items 13-16 refer to the data below.
Class Frequency
45-50 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

13. What is the range of the given set of data?

A. 50 B. 50.5 C. 49.5 D. 99.5

14. What is the fx?

A. 1,158 B. 1,159 C. 1,160 D. 1,161

15. What is the variance?

A. 119.59 B. 119.49 C. 119.40 D. 119.50

16. What is the standard deviation?

A. 10.90 B. 1091 C. 10.92 D. 10.93

17. What is the probability of tossing two coins having ahead and a tail?
A. ¼ B. ½ C. ¾ D. 1

A quiz contains three multiple choice-type of questions and two true/false-type of questions. Guessing the
answer randomly gives the probability of each score.

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

18. What is the probability of failing the quiz (getting 0, 1, 2 or 3 correctly) by guessing?
A. 0.047 B. 0.575 C. 0.773 D. 0.953

19. A spinner with three equal divisions was spinned 1000 times. The following 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%

20. Suppose you toss two pair of coins once, how many possible outcomes are there?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 4 D. 8

21. A number cube is rolled. What is the probability of rolling a number that is NOT 3?
A. 0 B.1/6 C.5/6 D. 1

22. In a 500-ticket draw for an educational prize Ana’s name was written ion 41 tickets. What is the
probability that she would win?
A. 0.082 B. 0.122 C. 0.41 D. 0.82

23. In a restaurant, you have a dinner choice of one main dish, one vegetable and one drink. The choices
from 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

24. Arlene Joy got coins from her pocket which accidentally rolled on the floor. If there were 8 probable
outcomes, how many coins fell on the floor?
A. 3 B. 4 C. 8 D. 16

25. 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?
A.1/36 B.1/6 C.9/36 D.1/3

26. What is 5!?

A. 0 B. 1 C. 10 D. 25
 27. Give the value 0!.
A. 0 B. 1 C. Undefined D. 100

28. What is the value of 7!?

A. 14 B. 49 C. 343 D. 700

29. Calculate 9C5.

A. 126 B. 0 C. 1 D. 15120

30. Compute 13C2

A. 11 B. 78 C. 156 D. 200

31. What is the value of 8P5.

A. 0 B. 1 C. 6720 D. 56
32. What is the median age of a group of employees whose ages are 36, 38, 18, 10, 16 and 15 years?
A. 10 B. 15 C. 16 D. 17

33. 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

For items 34-35

A video shop owner wants to find out the performance 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

34. What are the average sales of the two stores?

A. 18 B. 18.4 C. 19 D. 19.5

35. Which store is consistently performing?

A. A B. B C.A & B D. None of the above

36. In a family of 3 children, what is the probability that the middle child is a boy?
A. 1/8 B. ¼ C. 1/3 D. 1/2

37. What is the mode of the set of numbers 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6 and 7?

A. 4 B. 6 C. 4 & 6 D. 5

For items 38-39 refer to the data below. Choose the letter that corresponds to the best answer.
Class Frequency
45-50 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

38. What is the class size?

A. 4 B. 3 C. 5 D. 6

39. What is the value of the median score?

A. 24.10 B. 24.29 C. 24.15 D. 24.39

40. Suppose your grades on three English exams are 80, 93 and 91. What grade do you need in your next
exam to have an average of 90?
A. 96 B. 95 C. 94 D. 93

For no. 41. The table below is the frequency distribution of the ages of 50 employees in Apple Rice Mill; choose
the letter of the best answer in each given question:

Age of 50 Employees in Apple Rice Mill

Age of Employees No. of Employees
60-69 12
50-59 8
40-49 12
30-39 13
20-29 5
 41. What is the average mean of the ages of the employees?
A. 46.7 B. 46.2 C. 46.3 D. 46.5

42. The local weather forecaster said 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%

43. Which of the following is true?

A. Answering a true/false-type questions 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 ½, 0.5 or 50%.
D. The probability of rolling a 7 in a die is 1/7.

44. A glass jar contains 40 red, green, blue and yellow marbles. The probability of drawing a single green
marble at random is 1/5. What does this 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.

45.Mrs. Castro asked her students to do an activity. Afterwards, her students noticed that the experimental
probability of tossing tails is 48%, while the mathematical/theoretical probability is 50%. Being an attentive
student, how would you explain this to your classmate?
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 large number
of trials, the two will be very close.
D. It is normal for experimental probabilities to differ from the mathematical/theoretical probabilities
because the results must be the same.

46. 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 from?
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
Topping: cheese, bacon, sausage, pepperoni or hotdog

47. 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 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 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 ¾ while that of tails is only ¼.

48. Your best friend asked you to accompany him to a carnival to play games of chances. According to him,
his horoscopes states that he is lucky that day and he wants to try his luck at the carnival. How will you
convince him not to go to carnival?
A. I will ask him to review very well his notes on probability so that he can apply them to real life
situations 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 to go to the carnival.
C. I will 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 time to go and enjoy all the games there.

49. For the set of data consisting of 8, 8, 9, 10, 10, which statement is true?
A. mean=mode B. median=mode C. mean=median D. median=median

50. The scores of Lilibeth in her 3 math quiz are as follows: 48, 34 and 44 respectively. What must be her 4th
quiz to get an average of 45?
A. 50 B. 54 C. 56 D. 58