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GEN. TOMAS MASCARDO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

THIRD QUARTERLY ASSESSMENT IN MATHEMATICS 10

SY 2024-2025

MULTIPLE CHOICE
DIRECTIONS: Read and analyze each question carefully. Write the letter of the correct answer on your
answer sheet provided.

1. For your snack, you may choose a drink from coffee, milk, or water. You also have three choices for
a sandwich: egg, ham or tuna. How many possible snacks are there?
A. 9 B. 10 C. 11 D. 12

2. A sari-sari store owner wants to display his products in a row. He will display identical canned goods,
8 identical boxes of matchsticks, 12 identical instant coffee. Which type of permutation refers to the
given situation?
A. Circular Permutation C. Repeated Permutation
B. Distinct Permutation D. Distinguishable Permutation

3. How many possible arrangements are there if 7 persons are sitting around a circular table?
A. 60 B. 120 C. 360 D. 720

4. Jenny has 10 songs in her YouTube Music playlist. How many ways can she arrange the queue to
play 3 songs?
A. 225 B. 720 C. 5,040 D. 360,360

5. How many different plate numbers will be made if each has 2 letters and 4 digits, when repetition is
NOT allowed?
A. 16320 B. 3,276,000 C. 6,760,000 D. 2,948,400

For Items 6-7, refer to the situation below.

You and 5 people are in a dinner gathering. You wanted to arrange yourselves in a circular table.
If there are 3 male and 3 female in the gathering;
6. In how many ways can you be arranged at a dining table if 2 people refuse to sit beside each other?
A. 120 B. 72 C. 48 D. 30

7. In how many ways can they be arranged at a circular dining table if they are arranged alternately?
A. 12 B. 36 C. 48 D. 72

8. Which of the following refers to the number of ways of selecting or arranging from a set when the
order is not important?
A. FCP B. Probability C. Combination D. Permutation

9. Which of the following illustrates combination?

A. Arranging 8 books on a shelf.
B. Creating password for your email account
C. Giving medals to the first 3 winners in a math quiz bee
D. Determining the number of lines made out of 5 non-collinear points

10. Which of the following tasks/activities is order not important?

A. Arranging the letters of the word DAD.
B. A singer chooses 3 songs from a list of 5 songs.
C. Arranging 5 students on a line based on their height.
D. Forming three-digit number out of the first 6 natural numbers.

11. In how many ways can you select 15 students to represent the school in Math competition out of 15
students who wanted to join the event?
A. 1 B. 15 C. 3,003 D. 1,600
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12. John Zhedrick draw 6 points on his notebook and marked it such that no 3 points are collinear. How
many lines can be drawn passing through any of these points?
A. 10 B. 15 C. 20 D. 21

13. Which of the following determines a collection of things without an order or where the order is not
relevant?
A. FCP B. Combination C. Permutation D. Probability

14. How does a combination differ from a permutation?

A. Combination is more complex than permutation.
B. Combination involves selection of items without regard to order, while permutation involves
arranging items in a specific order.
C. Permutation involves selecting items, while combination involves arranging items.
D. Combination and permutation are identical.

15. Kevin wants to choose two out of the following toppings for his pizza: pepperoni, mushrooms,
onions, and green peppers. How many different pairs of toppings can Kevin choose? This problem
is an example of?
A. Linear Permutation B. Circular Permutation C. Permutation of Distinct Objects D. Combination

16. Suppose X and Y are two elements and they can be arranged in two ways, XY or YX. This is called a
permutation. Which question makes this statement a problem that involves combination?
A. How many ways can you arrange two elements X and Y?
B. How many ways can you select one from two elements X and Y?
C. How many arrangements can be made from the elements X and Y? D.
D. How many ways can you arrange one from two elements X and Y?

17. In the previous item, which is the value of 2C2?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 5

18. There are 17 students in a classroom. How many different twelve-person students can be chosen to
play in a basketball team?
A. 6,188 B. 12,376 C. 50,984 D. 92,378

19. If Ashmeir decided to pick 5 balls randomly from a jar containing 6 red balls and 8 green balls, in
how many possible ways can it happen that at least 5 of the balls picked are green?
A. 1 B. 56 C. 140 D. 840

20. A committee of 4 members is to be formed from 6 women and 5 men. The committee must include
at most 2 women. In how many ways can this be done?
A. 95 B. 75 C. 215 D. 265

21. In a park, 6 brothers and 4 other boys are playing together. How many ways can all the boys be
seated in a circular order so that none of the four other boys are seated together?
A. 345, 600 B. 362, 880 C. 17,280 D. 2,880

22. How many three-letter codes can be formed from the letters of the English alphabet if consonants
and vowels appear alternately and repetitions of letters are not allowed? (Note: There are 26 letters
in the alphabet, 5 of which are vowels)
A. 184,800 B. 159,600 C. 2,100 D. 420

23. This is any set of outcomes derived from the sample space.
A. Event B. Sample C. Intersection D. Union
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For Items 24 - 27, refer to the figure on the right.

U = {1,2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22}

24. If U = {1,2,3, 4,..., 20}, what is (A ∩ B)?

A. {17, 18, 19, 20} C. {8, 9, 10}
B. {9, 10} D. {1 ,2 ,3 ,4,5 ,6,7}

25. If U = {1,2,3, 4,..., 20}, what is (A U B)’ ?

A. {17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22} C. {8, 9, 10}
B. {9, 10} D. {1 ,2 ,3 ,4,5 ,6,7}

26. If U = {1,2,3, 4,..., 20}, what is (A U B)’ ∩ B?

A. {17, 18, 19, 20} C. {8, 9, 10} 21 22
B. { } D. {8 ,9 ,10 ,11,12 ,13,14, 15, 16}

27. A dice is rolled three times. Let 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 be the numbers shown on the upper face. The
sample space S = {111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 122, ..., 666}. Let C = {111, 112, 113, 123, 234,
345} and D = {111, 123, 456, 345, 234}. Which illustration shows Y = C ∩ D?
A. Y = {111, 123, 234} C. Y = {111, 234, 113}
B. Y = {111, 123, 345} D. Y = {345, 456, 234}

For numbers 28 to 30, please refer your answers on the figures on the right.
U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}.
Let A be the set of odd numbers
B be the set of prime numbers

28. What is P(A ∩ B)?

3 5 1 3
A. 10
B. 10
C. 10
D. 5

29. What is P(A U B)?

3 5 1 3
A. 10
B. 10
C. 10
D. 5

30. What is P(A U B)’ ?

3 1 2 5
A. B. D. D.
10 2 5 6

For number 31 — 32. A card is drawn at random from a standard deck of cards. Find the
probability that the card is:
31. An Ace or a King or a Jack
2 3 14 18
A. 13
B. 13
C. 52
D. 13

32. A heart or a 10
4 1 17 4
A. 52
B. 13
C. 52
D. 13

33. 3. Choosing a month from a year, what is the probability of selecting a month with 28 days?
1 1 11
A. 12 B. 4 C. 12 D. 1
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34. GTMNHS offered different extracurricular activities for junior high school students. There are 11
students who enrolled in a drama class, 18 students in band class, and 9 students in athletics. Three
enrolled in drama and athletics, 7 in athletics and band, and 6 in both drama and band. Three students
have participated in three extracurricular activities. If one student is selected randomly, find the
probability that he is enrolled in any of the extracurricular activity class?

1 5 21 1
A. 6
B. 6
C. 30
D. 4

35. In Ospital ng Imus, there are 10 nurses and 5 physicians in an

emergency room. Five nurses and one physician are males. If a person
is selected from the staff, what is the probability that the person is a
nurse or male?
12 9 11 7
A. B. C. D.
15 15 15 15

36. A coin and a number cube with the numbers 1 through 6 are tossed.
What is the probability of the coin showing head and the number cube
showing the number 4?
1 1 1 1
A. 12 B. 8 C. 4 D. 2

37. A certain section from grade 10 class surveyed 40 students about their pets inside their house. Find
the number of students who owned cats or dogs.
A. 8 C. 28
B. 20 D. 39

38. If a student is randomly chosen, what is the probability that he owns dogs and birds and cats?
9 1
A. 20 C. 20

1 1
B. 2
D. 5

39. Which of the following are mutually exclusive events when a card is drawn at random from a
standard deck of 52 cards?
A. a 4 or a heart C. a 4 or a club
B. a 4 or a jack D. jack or a face card

40. Which of the following are not mutually exclusive events when a fair die is rolled once?
A. a 3 or a 6 C. a 2 or a factor of 6
B. a 5 or an even number D. a 6 or an odd number

41. Maria Keziah draws from an ordinary deck of 52 cards. Help her find the formula to use to find the
probability of getting a face card or a red card?
A. P(face card or red card) = P(face card) + P(red card)
B. P(face card and red card) = P(face card) * P(red card|face card)
C. P(face card and red card) = P(face card) * P(red card)
D. P(face card or red card) = P(face card) + P(red card) - P(face card and red card)

42. A die is rolled once. What is the probability of getting a number divisible by 2 or a number divisible
by 3?
A. 2/3 B. 1/3 C. 5/6 D. 1/6

43. Which of the following is an example of a mutually exclusive event?

A. Getting a 4 or 5 in a single throw of a die
B. Getting a 4 or an even number in a single throw of a die
C. Getting a 3 or a number divisible by 3 in a single throw of a die
D. Getting a number divisible by 3 or a number divisible by 2 in a single throw of a die
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44. In a school there are 25 teachers who teach engineering or management. Of these, 15 teach
engineering and 6 teach both engineering and management. Find the probability that one teaches
management.
9 16 2 1
A. 25
B. 25
C. 5
D. 25

45. The Santos Family is preparing for a local festival and they have a box containing 10 green flags, 8
white flags, and 6 orange flags. Suppose that two flags are drawn one after the other without replacing
the first flag. Find the probability that both are white.
24 28 56 56
A. 276
B. 153
C. 210
D. 306

46. A special die is made in the shape of a dodecahedron, and its faces are numbered with the numbers
1 to 12. When the die is thrown there is an equal chance of any face landing uppermost. If the die is
thrown once, what is the probability that the face that lands uppermost have a number that is a factor
of 12?
1 1 1 2
A. 6 B. 3 C. 2 D. 3

47. There are 40 students in a club, and they all have at least one pet: either a bird or a fish. 18
students have a bird, and 25 students have a fish. What is the probability that a student chosen at
random from the club has both a bird and a fish?
3 5 7 9
A. 40
B. 40
C. 40
D. 40

48. In a group of 30 players in a sports club, 22 play Basketball and 18 play Volleyball. They all play
at least one of the games. What is the probability that a player chosen at random from the club plays
Basketball but not Volleyball?
4 8 12 14
A. B. C. D.
30 30 30 30

49. Of the 100 selected grade 10 students of GTMNHS, 50 joined Mathematics club, 40 joined Science
club and 65 joined English club. Furthermore, 19 joined Mathematics and Science club, 25 joined
Mathematics and English club and 21 joined Science and English club. Finally, 8 students joined all
three clubs. If a student is selected from this group, find the probability that the chosen student joined
Math or English.
9 23 17 9
A. 10
B. 25
C. 100
D. 25

50. On New Year's Day, Sarah visited her Aunt Marge. Aunt Marge has three ten-dollar bills, four twenty-
dollar bills, and five fifty-dollar bills in her purse. When Sarah asked for her "gift money", Aunt Marge
took out three bills at random. Find the probability that all bills are twenty-dollar bills.
1 1 2 2
A. 330 B. 165 C. 165 D. 330

4. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
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