Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region III
Division of Nueva Ecija
PALAYAN CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Atate, Palayan City

LONG QUIZ IN MATHEMATICS 8

NAME: ______________________________ SCORE: _________________

GRADE & SECTION: __________________ DATE: __________________

DIRECTION: Write the letter that corresponds to the correct answer.

1. It is the branch of Mathematics concerned with the techniques by which information is collected, organized,
analyzed and interpret. a. Probability b. Statistics c. Algebra d. Geometry

2. Which measures of central tendency is generally used in determining the size of the most saleable shoes in a
department store? a. Mode b. Range c. Mean d. Median

3. What do you call to the sum of measures x divided by the number N of measures in a variable?
a. Mode b. Range c. Mean d. Median
4. It is the middle entry or term in a set of data arranged in numerical order (either increasing or decreasing).
a. Mode b. Range c. Mean d. Median

5. It is the difference between the highest value and the lowest value.
a. Mode b. Range c. Mean d. Median
6. Mean, median and mode are also referred to as ______.
a. Variance b. Deviation c. Variability d. Averages
7. Σx it is read as ______________.
a. Sum of x b. Summation of x c. Average of x d. Total of x

8. Which measures of central tendency appear the most number of times?

a. Mode b. Range c. Mean d. Median
9. What is the Median age of group of employees whos ages are 36, 38, 28, 30, 26 and 25 years?
a. 28 b. 29 c. 30 d. 31

10. If the range of a set of data is 14 and the lowest score is 7, what is the highest score?
a. 7 b. 14 c. 21 d. 28
11. What are the mode of the scores 2, 1, 4, 5, 4, 7, 5, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 5 and 1?
a. 1 & 5 b. 4 & 5 c. 1,4 & 5 d. 5

12. What is the mean of the scores 5, 4, 3, 6, 5, 3 and 2?

a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5
13. Mico’s scores in 7 quizzes during the third quarter are 8, 7, 10, 9, 8, 10 and 9. Find the median.
a. 10 b. 9 c. 8 d. 7

14. What is the range of the scores 25, 2, 18, 6, 19, 16, 13, 2,24,25,32,5 and 10?
a. 17 b. 20 c. 23 d. 26
15. What is the median of the scores 54, 45, 58, 34, 87, 40, 45, 76, 87, 34, 23, 86 and 83?
a. 45 b. 54 c. 58 d. 76

16. What is the formula used in finding the range of ungrouped data?
H R
a. H-L: b. R-L c. d.
L L

17. What is the formula used in finding the mean of ungrouped data?

 fX  xx 
 x x 2
a.  f b. N c. H-L d. N
18. What is the symbol used for summation? a. x b. Σ c. i d. ≈

19. What is the term used to describe the distribution of a data set with two modes?
a. bimodal b. unimodal c. trimodal d. multimodal
20. What is the symbol used for mean? a. x b. Σ c. i d. ≈
21. What is the symbol used for absolute value? a. x b. Σ c. d. 
22. What is the tem used to describe the distribution of a data set with one mode?
a. bimodal b. unimodal c. trimodal d. multimodal
For items 23-25
A random sample of 5 households in Aliaga produced the following estimates of viewing hours per
households: 3, 6, 12, 4, 5

23. What is the mean deviation of the given data set?

a. 2 b. 2.4 c. 6 d. 2.6
24. What is the standard deviation of the viewing hours per household?
a. √7 b. √8 c. √9 d. √10
25. What is the range of the given data set? a. 5 b. 9 c. 10 d. 12

For Items 26-30, refer to the data below.

Below is a frequency distribution showing the ages of the first 50 persons who entered the department store.
Class f
50-54 3
45-49 1
40-44 11
35-39 17
30-34 4
25-29 2
20-24 5
15-19 7
26. Based on the given classes, what is the interval? a. 5
b. 10 c. 15 d. 20
27. What is the mean age of the 50 persons who entered the dept. sore?
a. 34.1 b. 35.6 c. 33.6 d. 35.1
28. What is the modal class?
a. 15-19 b. 20-24 c. 35-39 d. 40-44
29. What is the mode of the given data set? a. 37.92 b. 36.56 c. 37.02 d. 36.92
30. What is the median class? 15-19 b. 20-24 c. 35-39 d. 40-44

II. Frequency Distribution Table

35, 23, 32, 18, 43, 14, 23, 32, 17, 22,
15, 32, 22, 33, 19, 20, 15, 36, 39, 24,
20, 22, 25, 18, 18, 23, 24, 26, 15, 22

Scores Tally f X fX <cf lb

39-43 41
34-38 36
29-33 IIII 4 31 124
24-28 26 23.5
19-23 21
14-18 IIIII III 8 16 128 8
i= Σf=