THIRD QUARTER SUMMATIVE TEST IN
MATHEMATICS GRADE 10
School Year: 2021-2022
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Directions: Read and analyze each statement/question carefully and SHADE the letter of your best choice for each
item. (Attach copy of your solution sheet for items that needing solving skills)
Example:
1. Which of the following situations illustrates permutations?
A. forming a committee of councilors
B. assigning rooms to conference participants
C. selecting 10 questions to answer out of 15 questions in a test
D. choosing 2 literature books to buy from a variety of choices
2. Which term refers to the different possible arrangements of a set of objects?
A. Combination B. Differentiation C. Integration D. Permutation
3. How many different 4-digit even numbers can be formed from the digits 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 9 if no
repetition of digits is allowed?
A. 120 B. 420 C. 840 D. 1680
4. Find the number of distinguishable permutations of the letters of the word EDUCATED.
A. 1680 B. 10 080 C. 20 160 D. 40 320
5. Find the number of distinguishable permutations of the word PASS.
A. 4 B. 12 C. 36 D. 144
6. In how many ways can 8 people be seated around a circular table if two of them insist on sitting beside
each other?
A. 360 B. 720 C. 1440 D. 5040
7. In a school club, there are 5 possible choices for the president, a secretary, a treasurer, and an auditor.
Assuming that each of them is qualified for any of these positions, in how many ways can the 4 officers
be elected?
A. 20 B. 24 C. 60 D. 120
8. A teacher wants to assign 4 different tasks to her 4 students. In how many possible ways can she do it?
A. 12 B. 24 C. 36 D. 48
9. Five couples want to have their pictures taken. In how many ways can they arrange themselves in a
row if couples must stay together?
A. 120 B. 240 C. 360 D. 480
10. Ms. De Leon wants to produce different sets of test questions for her essay test. If she plans to do this
by putting together 3 out 5 questions she prepared, how many different sets of questions could she
construct?
A. 10 B. 20 C. 60 D. 80
11. What term describes as the number of ways of selecting from a set and the order is not important?
A. Combination B. Differentiation C. Integration D. Permutation
12. Which of the following situations illustrates combination?
A. Arranging books in a shelf
B. Forming plate numbers of vehicles
C. Forming different numbers from 5 given digits
D. Drawing names from a box containing 200 names
13. How will you differentiate permutation from combination?
A. Permutation considers the order of objects while combination does not.
B. Combination considers the order of objects while permutation does not.
C. Permutation does not consider the order of objects while combination does.
D. Permutation is the selection of object while combination is the arrangement of objects.
14. What fundamental counting principle is illustrated in the situation “choosing three of your classmates to
attend your birthday party”?
A. Combination B. Isolation C. Permutation D. Selection
15. Which of the following situations involve permutation?
A. Choosing 2 household chores to do before dinner
B. Determining the top three winners in a Science Quiz Bee
C. Forming lines from six given points with no three of which are collinear
D. Forming triangles from 7 given points with no three of which are collinear
16. Which of the following situations involve combination?
A. Assembling a jigsaw puzzle
B. Four people posing for pictures
C. Picking 6 balls from a basket of 12 balls
D. Selecting 5 basketball players out of 10 team members for the different positions
17. Which of the following can be a value of r in C (15, r) = 1365?
A. 3 B. 4 B. 5 D. 6
18. C (n, n) = _______.
A. n B. r C. 1 D. cannot be determined
19. If C (n, 5) = 252, then what is the value of n?
A. 7 B. 8 C. 9 C. 10
20. If C (n, r) = 35, which of the following are possible values of n and r?
A. n = 6, r = 4 B. n = 7, r = 3 C. n = 8, r = 3 D. n = 9, r = 2
21. If C (n, 4) = 126, what is n?
A. 7 B. 9 C. 10 D. 11
22. On an English examination, students are required to answer four essay questions from a list of nine
questions. How many possible combinations of four questions will there be?
A. 126 B. 189 C. 256 D. 382
23. A restaurant asks some of its frequent customers to choose their favorite 4 items on the menu. If the
menu has 18 items to choose from how many different answers could the customer give?
A. 1 530 B. 3 060 C. 4 590 D. 6 120
24. In how many ways can a Statistics teacher select five students to work problem on the board from a
class of twenty students?
A. 1 938 B. 3 876 C. 7 752 D. 15 504
25. How many choices of 8 pocketbooks to read can be made from a set of nine pocketbooks?
A. 7 B. 9 C. 10 D. 11
26. It is a set that contains all of the elements that are in at least one of the two events.
A. Dependent B. Union C. Independent D. Intersection
27. It is a set that contains all of the elements that are in both events.
A. Dependent B. Independent C. Intersection D. Union
For items 28-29, refer to the figure below.
The extracurricular activities in which the senior class at Duroc Integrated School participate are shown
in the Venn diagram below.
28. How many students are in the senior class?
A. 51 B. 67 C. 137 D. 345
29. If a student is randomly chosen, what is the probability that the student participates in athletics or
drama?
14 52 137 227
A. 345 B. 345 C. 345 D. 345
30. Which of the following can be a probability value?
88 10 18 88
A. 100 B. 8 C. 10 D. 10
31. What is the mathematical representation of the probability of a union of two events?
A. P ( A∩B ) B. P ( A∪B ) C. P ( A ⊃ B ) D. P ( A ⊂ B )
32. A bowl contains 15 chips numbered 1 to 15. If a chip is drawn randomly from the bowl, what is the
probability that it is 7 or 15?
1 2 7
A. B. C. D. 1
15 15 15
33. A box contains 3 red balls, 5 yellow balls, and 2 blue balls. If a ball is picked at random from the box,
what is the probability that a ball picked is a yellow ball or a blue ball?
2 3 5 7
A. 10 B. 10 C. 10 D. 10
34. Brian likes to wear colored shirts. He has 10 shirts in the closet. Three of these are blue, four are in
different shades of red, and the rest are of mixed or different colors. What is the probability that he will
wear a blue or a red shirt?
7 4 3 4 3 7 7 4
+ + + −
A. 10 10 B. 10 10 C. 10 10 D. 10 10
35. The spinner on the right is spun. What is the probability that a spin that results in an even
number or a number less than 4?
1 3 5 7
A. 4 B. 8 C. 8 D. 8
36. A bag contains 6 black marbles, 9 blue marbles, 4 yellow marbles, and 2 green marbles. A marble is
randomly selected, replaced, and a second marble is randomly selected. Find the probability of
selecting a black marble, then a yellow marble?
A. 0.04 B. 0.05 C. 0.06 D. 0.07
37. Two people are selected randomly from a group of 4 men and 4 women. What is the probability that a
man and a woman are selected?
4 1 2 1
A. . 7 B. 4 C. 7 D. 28
38. A box of chocolates contains 10 milk chocolates, 8 dark chocolates, and 6 white chocolates. Hanissa
randomly chooses a chocolate, eats it, and then randomly chooses another chocolate. What is the
probability that Hanissa chose a milk chocolate, and then, a white chocolate?
A. 0.109 B. 0.110 C. 0.111 D. 0.112
39. Two men and three women are in a committee. Two of the five are to be chosen to serve as officers. If
the officers are chosen randomly, what is the probability that both officers will be women?
3 1 3 3
A. 4 B. 3 C. 8 D. 10
40. These are events that have no outcomes in common. It is also known as disjoint events.
A. Compound B. Mutually exclusive C. Mutually inclusive D. Simple
41. Which of the following situations represent a mutually exclusive event?
A. Picking a queen or a heart
B. Drawing an ace or a spade
C. Getting an ace or a queen
D. Obtaining a king or a diamond
42. Mario has 45 red chips, 12 blue chips, and 24 white chips. What is the probability that Mario randomly
selects a red chip or a white chip?
7 12 23 24
A. 27 B. 27 C. 27 D. 27
43. Carl’s basketball shooting records indicate that for any frame, the probability that he will score in a two-
point shoot is 30%, a three-point shoot is 45%, and neither is 25%. What is the probability that Carl will
score either in a two-point shoot or in a three-point shoot?
A. 25% B. 30% C. 45% D. 75%
44. A box contains three balls of different colors namely: red, white, and blue. If two balls are drawn
successively at random from the box, what is the probability that the balls will be red and white?
1 1 2 1
A. 2 B. 3 C. 3 D 6
45. Nick has 4 black pens, 3 blue pens, and 2 red pens in his school bag. Nick randomly picks two pens out
of his school bag. What is the probability that Nick chose two blue pens, if he replaced the first pen
back in his pocket before choosing a second pen?
A. 0.111 B. 0.112 C. 0.113 D. 0.114
46. In a barangay election, the two candidates for barangay captain obtained the same number of votes. To
break the tie, the COMELEC chairman will toss a coin. What is the probability that Candidate A will be
proclaimed as barangay captain?
A. 0.2 B. 0.4 C. 0.5 D. 0.8
47. Alyana was born in October. What is the probability that it was on the 10 th?
1 1 10 1
A. 365 B. 10 C. 31 D. 31
48. Barbara, Carol, Alice, Malia, and Sabrina are competing for two roles in a play. Assume that the two to
get roles will be randomly chosen from the five girls. What is the conditional probability that Malia gets a
role if we know that Carol does not get a role?
1 1 1 3
A. 4 B. 3 C. 2 D. 4
49. Kevin had 6 nickels and 4 dimes in his pocket. If he took out one coin and then a second coin without
replacing the first coin, what is the probability that both coins were nickels?
1 1 1 2
A. 4 B. 3 C. 2 D. 3
50. At a basketball game, 80% of the fans cheered for team A. in the same crowd, 20% of the fans were
waving banners and cheering for team A. What is the probability that a fan waved a banner given that
the fan cheered for team A?
1 1 1 3
A. 4 B. 3 C. 2 D. 4
Prepared by: Recommending Approval:
ALLAN G. PALATTAO MIRASOL A. BALDOZ
Teacher-III Head Teacher-1
Approved:
ETHEL RESPICIO-CABANTAC, P2
School Head
ANSWER KEY (Math 10 – 3rd)
1. D
2. D
3. A
4. B
5. B
6. C
7. D
8. B
9. B
10. A
11. A
12. D
13. A
14. A
15. B
16. C
17. B
18. C
19. C
20. B
21. B
22. A
23. B
24. D
25. B
26. B
27. C
28. D
29. D
30. A
31. B
32. B
33. D
34. B
35. D
36. B
37. B
38. A
39. D
40. B
41. C
42. C
43. D
44. D
45. A
46. C
47. D
48. A
49. B
50. A
