Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VI – Western Visayas
Division of Silay City
District – Secondary Schools
GUINHALARAN INTEGRATED SCHOOL
(Secondary)

Mathematics 10
THIRD GRADING EXAM

PART I:
Choose the letter that best answers each question.

1. What do you call the different arrangements of the objects of a group?

A. selection C. permutation
B. differentiation D. combination

2. Which situation illustrates permutation?

A. forming a committee of councilors
B. selecting 10 questions to answer out of 15 questions in a test
C. choosing 2 literature books to buy from variety of choices
D. assigning rooms to conference participants

3. It is the selection of objects from a set.

A. combination C. permutation
B. differentiation D. distinction

4. Which of the following situations illustrates combination?

A. arranging books in a shelf
B. drawing names from a box containing 200 names
C. forming different numbers from 5 given digits
D. forming plate numbers of vehicles

5. Which of the following situations does NOT illustrate combination?

A. selecting fruits to make a salad
B. assigning telephone numbers to homes
C. choosing household chores to do after classes
D. selecting posters to hang in the walls of your room

6. Which of the following expressions represents the number of distinguishable permutations of the
letters of the word CONCLUSIONS?
11 !
A. 11! C.
2! 2 ! 2 !
11! 11!
B. D.
8! 2! 2 ! 2 ! 2!

7. A certain restaurant allows you to assemble your own vegetable salad. If there are 8 kinds of
vegetables available, how many variations of the salad can make containing at least 5
vegetables?
A. 56 C. 93
B. 84 D. 96

8. Calculate P(12, 4). Show solution at the back of your paper.

A. 40, 320 C. 990
B. 11, 880 D. 495
9. How many different 3-digit numbers can be formed from the digits 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 if repetition of
digits is not allowed?
A. 840 C. 360
B. 720 D. 120

10. Miss Cruz plotted some points on the board, no three of which are collinear. When she asked her
student to draw all the possible lines through the points, he came up with 45 lines. How many
points where on the board?
A. 10 C. 8
B. 9 D. 7

11. If P(9,r) = 504, what is r?

A. 7 C. 8
B. 9 D. 3

12. If P(n, 4) = 17, 160, then n = _________.

A. 9 C. 13
B. 11 D. 14

13. If x = P(7, 4), y = P(8, 4), and z = P(9, 3), arrange x,y,z from smallest to greatest.
A. x,y,z C. y,x,z
B. z,x,y D. x,z,y

7!
14. Calculate
3! .2 !
A. 420 C. 1680
B. 840 D. 2520

15. Which of the following can be a value of r in C(15,r) = 1365?

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

16. If C(n, 5) = 252, then n = _______.

A. 7 C. 9
B. 8 D. 10

17. Calculate C(20, 5)

A. 6840 C. 116, 280
B. 15, 504 D. 1, 860, 480

18. Let a = C(7,4), b = C(7,5), c = (7,6) d = C(7,7). If there are 7 points on the plane, no three of
which are collinear, what represents the total number of polygons that can be formed with at
least 5 sides?
A. a+b C. a+b+d
B. c+d D. b+c+d

19. Find (18,4)

A. 2,400 C. 4,896
B. 3,060 D. 73,440

20. Evaluate: C(25,4) + C30,3) + C(35, 2)

A. 17,900 C. 16,710
B. 17,305 D. 4655

21. In how many different ways can 7 potted plants be arranged in a row?
A. 5040 C. 720
B. 4,032 D. 210
22. In how many different ways can 10 different-colored horses be positioned in a carousel?
A. 504 C. 362,880
B. 4,032 D. 3, 628, 800

23. In how many possible ways can Juan answer a 10-item matching type quiz if there are also 10
choices and he answers by guessing?
A. 3,628,800 C. 720
B. 40,320 D. 10

24. Khristelle was able to calculate the total number of 3-digit numbers that can be formed from a
given set of non zero digits, without repetition. If there were 60 numbers in all, how many
digits were actually given?
A. 8 C. 6
B. 7 D. 5

25. How many different rays can be formed from 8 distinct points on a palne, no three of which lie on
the same line?
A. 56 C. 26
B. 7 D. 5

26. If committee of 8 members is to be formed from 8 sophomores and 5 freshmen such that there
must be 5 sophomores in the committee, which of the following is true?
I. The 8 committee members can be selected in 1,287 ways.
II. The 5 sophomores can be selected in 56 ways.
III. The 3 freshmen can be selected in 10 ways
A. I only C. II and III
B. I and II D. I, II and III

27. In a gathering, each of the guests shook hands with everybody else. If a total of 378 handshakes
were made, how many guests were there?
A. 30 C. 25
B. 28 D. 23

28. If 4 marbles are picked randomly from a jar containing 8 red marbles and 7 blue marbles, in how
many possible ways can at least 2 of the marbles picked are red?
A. 1,638 C. 1,176
B. 1,568 D. 1,050

1
29. The probability of heads landing up when you flip a coin is . What is the probability of getting
2
tails if you flip it again?
1 1
A. C.
4 2
1 3
B. D.
3 4

30. Suppose you roll a red die and a green die. The probability that the sum of the numbers on a
dice is equal to 9 is

30. Suppose you roll a red die and a green die. The probability that the sum of the numbers on a
4
dice is equal to 9 is since there are 4 of the 36 outcomes where the sum of 9. What if you
36
see that the red die shows the number 5, but you still have not seen the green die? What then
are the chances that the sum is 9?
1 1
A. C.
6 3
1 2
B. D.
4 3
31. If a coin is tossed 3 times, what is the probability that all three tosses come up heads given that
at least two of the tosses come up heads?
1 1
A. C.
6 3
1 3
B. D.
4 8

32. Among a large group of patients recovering from shoulder injuries, it was found that 22% visit
both a physical therapist and a chiropractor, whereas 12% visit neither of these. The
probability that a patient visits a chiropractor exceeds by 0.14 the probability that a patient
visits a physical therapist. Determine the probability that a randomly chosen member of this
group visits a physical therapist.
A. 0.26 C. 0.40
B. 0.38 D. 0.48

33. A class has the following grade distribution:

Grade Number of Students

95 5
90 14
85 7
80 9
75 8
Suppose that student passes he course if she or he gets a grade of 80. If a student is randomly
picked from this class, what is the probability that the students grade is 95 if it is known that the
student is passing the course?
5 5
A. C.
35 40
5 5
B. D.
43 28

34. Barbara, Carol, Alice, Perla and Sabrina are competing for two roles in a play. Assume that the
two get 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 Perla gets a role if we know that Carol does not
get a role?
1 1
A. C.
4 2
1 3
B. D.
3 4

35. Mario has 5 blocks of different colors in a bag. One block is red, one is yellow, one is green, one
is blue and one is black. Mario pulls out a block, looks at it and puts it back in the bag. If he
does this 3 times, what is the probability that the three blocks selected are all of the same
color?
5 4
A. 3 C. 3
5 5
1 5
B. 3 D.
5 4 x5
II. Identify which situations illustrate permutation and which illustrate combination.

36. Determining the top three winners in a Science Quiz Bee

37. Forming lines from six given points with no three of which are collinear
38. Forming triangles from 7 given points with no three of which are collinear
39. Four people posing for pictures
40. Assembling a jigsaw puzzle
41. Choosing 2 household chores to do before dinner
42. Selecting 5 basketball players out of 10 team members for the different positions
43. Choosing three of your classmates to attend your party
44. Picking 6 balls from a basket of 12 balls
45. Forming a committee of 5 members from 20 people

III. Solve the following problems completely.

46. How many different sets of 5 cards each can be formed from a standard deck of 52 cards?

47. In a 10-item Mathematics problem-solving test, how many ways can you select 5 problems to
solve?

48. From a population of 50 households, in how many ways can a researcher select a sample with a
size 0f 10?

49. In how many ways can 5 people arrange themselves in a row for picture taking?

50. A dress-shop owner has 8 new dresses that she wants to display in the window. If the display
window has 5 mannequins, in how many ways can she dress them up?
 “Where there is number, there is beauty.”
- Proclus

Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VI – Western Visayas
Division of Silay City
District – Secondary Schools
GUINHALARAN INTEGRATED SCHOOL
(Secondary)

Mathematics 10
THIRD GRADING EXAM
Table of Specifications

Competencies Items Percentage

The learner understand the 1,2,3,4,5,6,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45 32%
key concepts of permutations
and combinations
Solve equations involving 8,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,19,20 20%
permutations and
combinations
Solve problems involving 7,9,10,18,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,46,47,48,49,5 34%
permutations and 0
combinations
The learner demonstrate 29,31,33 6%
understanding of key concepts
of combinatorics and
probability
Illustrate and find the 30,32,34,35 8%
probability of mutually
exclusive events.

Prepared by:

DINA A. VILLANUEVA
Math Teacher