Measure of Position Jeopardy

What Am I?

100

I divide a list of ordered numbers into four equal parts.

Quartiles

200

Each of my rank is based on an increase by 10 percentage points and my 5th position of a distribution will give the value of the median.

Decile

300

I am the median of the lower half of data set.

Quartile 1/Lower Quartile

True or False

100

The second quartile, Q₂, is also the median.

True

200

The third quartile, Q₃ is the median of the upper half of the data set. this means that 100% of the numbers in the data set lie below Q_3.

False

300

In their Physical Education class, eight students participated in throwing the shot put. Below is the list of how far the shot put reached per student. 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17. The median or Q₂ of the data set is 10. This means that 50% of the group threw shorter than 10 meters and 50% of the group threw longer than 10 meters.

True

Solve Me!

100

Given the data set 1, 1, 4, 5, 8, 10. Find Q_1.

1

200

What is the median of the scores 6, 8, 11, 25, 15, 10, 2, 8, 16?

10

300

Below are the sample list of indigenous students who enrolled in MBGNHS.

Mandaya - 10

Mansaka - 2

B''laan - 4

Bagobo - 6

Manobo - 2

Kalagan - 1

Find the upper quartile and interpret the result.

Upper Quartile = 8

75% of the indigenous students who enrolled in MBGNHS are Mandaya and Bagobo.