Kathreen R.

Makiling BCAED 1H 2020-03892

MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 4 EXERCISE 4.1

MODERN WORLD

A. Direction: Identify whether the following situations can be considered as descriptive or

inferential.
1. A store owner finds out that 80% of daily sales came from soft drinks.

2. A researcher claimed that the academic performance of students was affected by

the size of the family.

3. A school nurse reported that the nutritional status of some pupils was severely
wasted.

4. The teacher finds that the average score of the students in a 40-item test is 23.

5. The social worker studied that there is a significant effect in communication of

preschool children using electronic gadgets.
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B. Direction: Classify the following data according to its types.

Quantitative/Qualitative Level of
Measurement
1. Volume of rice production
(in sacks)

2. Scores in a test

3. Monetary prizes in a contest

4. Awards in pageant

5. Membership in org

6. Academic Rank

7. Monthly income

8. Civil Status

9. Religious Affiliation

10. Length of Service

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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 4 EXERCISE 4.2

MODERN WORLD

Direction: Answer the following problems.

1. Calculate the mean, median and mode of the following sets of data.
a. 14, 16, 8, 8,10, 12, 9, 12, 13, 14, 8, 9, 5, 7, 11

b. 12.5, 15.5, 10.5, 10.2, 11.15, 9.5, 8.2, 18.3, 10.5, 10.5

2. Find the General Weighted Average of a student whose grades for a 3 unit subjects
such as Math, English, Filipino, Science, and Social Studies were 2.0, 1.8, 1.4, 2.2
and 2.5, respectively.90

3. Heather’s test scores are 81, 93, 74 and 95. What score must she get on the fifth test
in order to get a mean of 85 on all five tests?
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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 4 EXERCISE 4.2

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4. The final grade of a student in six subjects are as follows:

Subject
Math in the Modern World
Readings in Phil. History
Wellness and Fitness
Understanding the Self
Masining na Pagpapahayag
Calculus 1
No. of Units Final Grade
3 2.0
3 1.9
3 1.4
3 1.5
3 1.5
4 1.8

a. Determine his weighted mean grade.

b. If the subjects are of equal number of units, what would be the average grade of the
student?
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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 4 EXERCISE 4.3

MODERN WORLD

Direction: Solve the following problems.

1. Determine the range, variance and standard deviations of the following data sets.
a. 7, 8, 4, 3, 2, 3, 6, 5 and 7
Range = 8 – 2 = 6
Variance = 7.63

b. 3, 6, 15, 18, 24, 12, and 10

c. 2, 8, 11, 17, 12, 6 and 4

2. The result of the college entrance examination of 10 students in a certain university were
as follows:
2.5, 3.4, 5.6, 3.8, 4.2, 2.8, 3.0, 3.0, 3.4, 4.2
Compute for the variance and standard deviation.

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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 4 EXERCISE 4.3

MODERN WORLD

3. The newspaper company reported that samples of their weekly sales (in hundred
thousand pesos) are: 345, 452, 254, 137, 483, 515 and 218. Calculate and interpret the
variance and standard deviations.

4. A high school teacher at a small private school assigns trigonometry practice problems
to be worked via the net. Students must use a password to access the problems and the
time of log-in and log-off are automatically recorded for the teacher. At the end of the
week, the teacher examines the amount of time each student spent working the assigned
problems. The data is provided below in minutes.
 15 22 22 22
28 43 33 20
25 49 27 39
48 34 25
Find the Range, Standard Deviation, and Variance for the above data

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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 4 EXERCISE 4.4

MODERN WORLD

Answer each of the following questions.

1. Which of the following data values is the 50th percentile?
{1.52, 5.36, 6.79, 5.21, 0.28, 6.36, 8.47, 5.52, 6.26, 5.97}

2. What is Q3 for the following data set?

{20, 40, 50, 65, 70, 75, 80, 100}

3. Listed are 29 ages for Academy Award-winning best actors in order from smallest to
largest:
18, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 36, 37, 41, 42, 47, 52,
55, 57, 58, 62, 64, 67, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77

a. Find the 70th percentile.

b. Find the 83rd percentile.

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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 4 EXERCISE 4.4

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4. At a high school, it was found that the 30th percentile of number of hours that students
spend studying per week is seven hours. Interpret the 30th percentile in the context of this
situation.

5. The wheat production (in Kg) of 20 acres is given as: 1120, 1240, 1320, 1040, 1080, 1200,
1440, 1360, 1680, 1730, 1785, 1342, 1960, 1880, 1755, 1720, 1600, 1470, 1750, and
1885. Find the quartile deviation and coefficient of the quartile deviation.

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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 4 EXERCISE 4.5

MODERN WORLD

Direction: Solve the following problems:

1. The mean lifetime of a wristwatch is 25 months, with a standard deviation of 5 months.
If the distribution is normal, for how many months should a guarantee be made if the
manufacturer does not want to exchange more than 10% of the watches?

2. Scores on a standardized test are approximately normally distributed with a mean of

480 and a standard deviation of 90.
A. What is the proportion of the scores are above 700?
 B. What is the percentage of scores between 420 and 520?

3. If a distribution of raw scores were plotted and then the scores are transformed to zscores,
would the shape of the distribution change? Explain your answer.

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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 4 EXERCISE 4.5

MODERN WORLD

4. The weight of chocolate bars from a particular chocolate factory has a mean of 8
ounces with standard deviation of 0.1 ounce. What is the z-score corresponding to a
weight of 8.17 ounces?

5. A group of friends compares what they received while trick or treating. They find that
the average number of pieces of candy received is 43, with standard deviation of 2.
What is the z-score corresponding to 20 pieces of candy?
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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 4 EXERCISE 4.5

MODERN WORLD

Direction: Solve the following problems:

1. A researcher carefully computes the correlation coefficient between two variables and
gets r = 1.23. What does this value mean?
2. Given the following data:
XYXY
72 45 80 36
73 38 81 29
75 41 82 34
76 35 83 38
77 31 84 26
78 40 85 32
79 25 86 28
80 32 88 27

a. Sketch a scatterplot.

b. Compute the correlation coefficient, r.

 c. Compute the coefficients of the linear regression

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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 5 EXERCISE 5.1

MODERN WORLD

A. In items 1 – 5, calculate the simple interest earned. Show your solution

No. Principal (P) Rate (r) Time (t) Interest (I)

1. 2000 6% 1 year
2. 12000 7.8% 45 days
3. 3000 9.6% 21 days
4. 3500 1.8% 4 days
5. 7000 7.2% 114 days

B. In items 6 – 10, solve each of the following problems

1. Calculate the simple interest earned in 1 year on a deposit of P1900 if the interest rate
is 8%.

2. Calculate the simple interest earned in 1 year on a deposit of P2300 if the interest rate
is 7%.

3. You deposit P1500 in an account earning 10.4% interest. Calculate the simple interest
earned in 6 months.
4. Calculate the simple interest due on 150-day loan of P4800 if the interest rate is 7.25%.

5. Calculate the simple interest due on a two-month loan of P800 if the interest rate is
1.5% per month.

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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 5 EXERCISE 5.2

MODERN WORLD

A. In items 1 – 5, use the formula A = P (1 + rt) to calculate the maturity value of the
simple interest loan.

No. Principal (P) Rate (r) Time (t) Interest (I)

1. 2000 6% 1 year
2. 12000 7.8% 45 days
3. 3000 9.6% 21 days
4. 3500 1.8% 4 days
5. 7000 7.2% 114 days

B. In items 6 – 10, solve each of the following problems.

6. Calculate the maturity vale of a simple interest, eight-month loan of P7000 if the
interest rate is 8.7%.

7. Calculate the maturity value of a simple interest, 10-month loan of P6,600 if the
interest rate is 9.75%.

8. You deposit P880 in an account paying 9.2% simple interest. Find the future vaue
of the investment after 1 year.
9. You deposit P750 in an account paying 7.3% simple interest. Find the future value
of the investment after 1 year.

10. The simple interest charged on a 6-month loan of P2700. Find the simple interest
interest rate.

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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 5 EXERCISE 5.3

MODERN WORLD

A. In items 1 – 5, calculate the compound amount using the formula

No. Principal (P) Rate (r) Mode Time (t) Interest (I)

1. 1200 7% Semi-annually 12 yrs

2. 3500 8% Semi-annually 14 yrs
3. 1700 9% Daily 5 yrs
4. 9600 6% Monthly 3 yrs
5. 8600 11% Bi-monthly 3 yrs

B. Solve each of the following problems

1. On his 18th birthday, Merly’s parents placed P10,000 in time deposit at 10%
compounded monthly. In 10 years, how much money would be available for her
educational expenses?

2. For the college education of his son, the father of a 7-year old boy wants to put
enough money in time deposit at 14% annual interest compounded yearly. How
much must he deposit ti have P60,000 when his son reaches 18 years old?
 3. A man invests P5000 at 8% annual interest compounded monthly. How many
years will it take him to earn P20,000 interest?

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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 5 EXERCISE 5.4

MODERN WORLD

In items 1-4, calculate the finance charge for a credit card that has the given average daily
balance and interest rate.
1. Average daily balance, 118.72; monthly interest rate, 1.25%.

2. Average daily balance, 391.64; monthly interest rate, 1.75%.

3. Average daily balance, 10,154.87; monthly interest rate, 1.5%.

4. Average daily balance, 20,346.91; monthly interest rate, 1.25%.

5. Average Daily Average: A credit card amount had a P244 balance on March 5. A purchase
of P152 was made on March 28. Find the average daily balance if the billing date is April 5.

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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 5 EXERCISE 5.4

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6. Average Daily Average: A credit card account has a P768 balance on April 1. A purchase
of P316 was made on April 5, and a payment of P200 was made on April 18. Find the
average daily balance if the new billing date is May 1.

7. Finance Charges: A charge account had a balance of P944 on May 5. A purchase of P255
was made on May 17, and a payment of P150 was made on May 20. The interest on the
average daily balance is 1.5% per month. Find the finance charge on the June 5 bill.
8. On August 10, a credit card account had a balance of P345. A purchase of P56 was made
on August 15, and P157 was charged on August 27. A payment of P75 was made on
August 15. The interest on the average daily balance is 1.25% per month. Find the finance
charge on September 10 bill.

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MATHEMATICS IN THE CHAPTER 5 EXERCISE 5.5

MODERN WORLD

Exercise 5.5
Solve each of the following problems.
1. You buy a P258,000 home with downpayment of 25%. Find the amount of the
downpayment and the mortgage amount.

2. Mr. Co purchases a home and secures a loan of P250,000. The bank charges a fee of
2.25 points. Find the charge for the points.
3. The purchase price of a home is P309,000. A downpayment of P30% is made. The
bank charges P350 fees plus 3 points. Find the total of the downpayment and the
closing costs.