Mathematics 10

Quarter 4
Self-Learning Module 10
Percentile Rank
Mathematics – Grade 10
Quarter 4 – Self-Learning Module 10: Percentile Rank for Ungrouped and
Grouped Data
First Edition, 2020

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Mathematics 10
Quarter 4
Self-Learning Module 10
Percentile Rank
Introductory Message

For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Mathematics 10 Self-Learning Module on Percentile Rank for

Ungrouped and Grouped Data!

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
For the learner:

Welcome to the Mathematics 10 Self-Learning Module on Percentile Rank for

Ungrouped and Grouped Data!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measure how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATION

1. calculates percentile rank for ungrouped and grouped data

PRETEST

Find out how much you already know about this module. Encircle the letter
that you think is the best answer to each question.

Refer to the table below showing the frequency distribution for the National
Career Assessment Examination (NCAE) result in Mathematical Ability of 60
students:

Scores Frequency <cf

34-39 7 60
28-33 14 53
22-27 13 39
16-21 15 26
10-15 9 11
4-9 2 2

1. Given these scores of students in a test, what is P50?

A. 26.11 B. 25.17 C. 24.33 D. 23.34
2. What does 30.07 as P75 mean?
A. 75% of the 60 students got a score below 30.07 and 25% got a score above
30.07.
B. 75% of the 60 students got a score above 30.07 and 25% got a score below
30.07.
C. The average score of all students is 30.07
D. 75% of the class did not pass the test.

3. If Lalisa got a percentile rank of 93 in Mathematical Ability. Another way of

saying it, is that:
A. her score is lower than 93% of her classmates
B. Most of the students scored 93 in a test
C. she surpassed 93% of her classmates
D. she got the highest score
 4. What is the percentile rank of Billie if he scored 31 in the test?
A. 63% B. 73% C. 79% D. 81%

5. How many of the scores are greater than the cumulative frequency of 25?
A. 44% B. 40% C. 37% D. 25%

RECAP

Find percentile indicated below based on the given distribution table.

x f
38-40 9
35-37 11
32-34 8
29-31 4
26-28 3
23-25 5

1. P15 = ________________ 4. P69 = ________________

2. P24 = ________________ 5. P87 = ________________
3. P54 = ________________ 6. P96 = ________________

LESSON

The Percentile Rank for Grouped Data

In this self-learning module lesson, you will be able to illustrate and calculate
the percentile rank of a certain value, and how it can be very useful in relating
individual value to their positions in the entire group.
Percentile rank is typically defined as the proportion of scores in a
distribution that a specific score is greater than or equal to. For instance, if you
received a score of 95 on a mathematics test and this score was greater than or equal
to the scores of 88% of the students taking the test, then your percentile rank would
be 88.
 In computing the percentile rank of ungrouped data, the following formula is
used:

𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑥

𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒙 = × 100
𝑁

Consider the following examples below.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), in partnership with the

Bureau of Local Employment (BLE), revealed in their latest Labor Market Trends
release which jobs presently earn the highest salaries in the Philippines year 2019.

JOB ESTIMATED MONTHLY

SALARY
Aircraft Pilots, Navigators and Flight Engineers Php 116,714
Securities and Finance Dealers and Brokers Php 89,831
Civil Engineers Php 68,957
Actuaries Php 60,477
Computer Programmers Php 52,331
System Analysts and Designers Php 51,069
Computer Engineers Php 49,335
Accountants and auditors Php 47,756
Production Supervisors & Foremen Php 47,101
Statisticians Php 41,480

Example 1: Determine the percentile rank of Computer Engineers’ salary among the
other Jobs.

Solution: Make sure that the given values are arrange from highest to lowest or vice
versa.

𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑥 Notice that there are 10

𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒙 = × 100
𝑁 total number of jobs and
3 3 jobs are below
= × 100 Computer Engineers.
10

= 30%

Therefore, Computer Engineers’ salary is at 30th percentile rank.

Example 2: Find how many percent of the jobs has monthly salaries lower than
Php 60,477?

𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑥 There are 6 jobs are below

𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒙 = × 100
𝑁 the job with monthly
6 salary of 60, 477.
= × 100
10
= 60%

Therefore, 60% of the jobs have monthly salaries of Php 60, 477 or less and
40% of the jobs have monthly salaries of Php 60, 477 or more.

In computing the percentile rank of grouped data, the following formula is used:

100 (𝑃 − 𝐿𝐵) 𝑓𝑃
𝑃𝑃𝑅 = [ ][ + 𝑐𝑓𝑃 ]
𝑁 𝑖

where: PR = percentile rank, the answer will be a percentage

P = raw score or value for which one wants to find a percentile
rank
LB = lower boundary of the kth percentile class
N = total frequency
cfP = cumulative frequency of all the values below the
critical value
𝑓𝑃 = frequency of the percentile class
i = size of class interval

Example 3: Find how many percent of the scores are greater than the cumulative
frequency of 38 in the Mathematics test scores of 50 students.

Scores frequency <cf

46-50 4 50
41-45 8 46
36-40 11 38
31-35 9 27
26-30 12 18
21-25 6 6
Solution:
100 (𝑃 − 𝐿𝐵) 𝑓𝑃
38 is within 36-40 𝑃𝑃𝑅 = [ ][ + 𝑐𝑓𝑃 ]
𝑁 𝑖
LB = 35.5
P = 38
100 (38 − 35.5)11
N = 50 𝑃𝑃𝑅 = [ ][ + 27]
fP = 11 50 5
cfP = 27
𝑃𝑃𝑅 = 65
i=5
 Therefore, 65% of the scores are less than the cumulative frequency of
38, while 35% of the scores are greater than the cumulative frequency of 38.

Example 4: Using the previous table, if one of the students got a score of 42, what
is her percentile rank?

Solution:
100 (𝑃 − 𝐿𝐵) 𝑓𝑃
42 is within 41-45 𝑃𝑃𝑅 = [ ][ + 𝑐𝑓𝑃 ]
LB = 40.5 𝑁 𝑖
P = 42
N = 50 100 (42 − 40.5)8
𝑃𝑃𝑅 = [ ][ + 38]
fP = 8 50 5
cfP = 38
i=5
𝑃𝑃𝑅 = 80.8
Round off the resulting value to the nearest whole number. Therefore, the
percentile rank of a student who got 42 is 81%.

ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITY 1: LET’S PRACTICE
Directions: Determine whether the following statements are true or false.
Encircle the numbers with correct statements.

1. The percentile rank of a certain score shows the percent of individuals in a

group who achieved scores lower than the one given.
2. The higher the percentile rank of a score, the greater the percent of scores
above that score.
3. A mark of 90% always has a percentile rank of 90.
4. It is possible to have a mark of 85% and a percentile rank of 30.
5. The higher the percentile rank, the better the score compared to the others.
6. Two equal scores will have the same percentile rank.
7. A percentile rank of 75, indicates that 75% of the score are above of that
score.
For numbers 8-10. The following data give the scores of twelve Grade 10
students in 20 item test in Mathematics:
20 19 18 17 15 14 13 11 9 7 6 4

8. The percentile rank for a score of 15 is 32nd percentile.

9. There are 6 students below 50th percentile.
10. 25% of the students got a score greater than 7.
 ACTIVITY 2: KEEP PRACTICING
The frequency distribution presented below gives the number of days before
the 30 patients have fully recovered from Corona Virus from February 2020 to March
2020.
Complete the table and answer the following questions. Write your answer on
the space provided.

Days Recovered Frequency <cf

18-20 2
15-17 4
12-14 6
9-11 11
6-8 4
3-5 3

1. Based on the given, what is the average days before a patient fully recovered
from Corona Virus? _____________________________________________________
2. What is the percentile rank of a patient if he recovered in 13 days?
_________________________________________________________________________
3. What is the percentage of the patients who recovered in or before 7 days?
_________________________________________________________________________

4. What is the percentage of the patients who recovered in or after 10 days?

_________________________________________________________________________

ACTIVITY 3: TEST YOURSELF

A. Using data below convert the raw scores of the students listed below to
percentiles.

Student Score
Taehyung 96
1. Rosé _________ Jungkook 94
Jimin 97
Jin 86
2. Joy _________
Suga 94
RM 91
3. Lisa _________ J-Hope 93
Lisa 95
Jennie 82
4. J-Hope _________ Rosé 90
Jisoo 87
Irene 88
5. Yeri _________
Yeri 88
Wendy 79
Joy 83
Seulgi 80
B. Find the percentage of consultants who made Php 4,500 or more and Php
3,000 or less per day. Write your answer with solution on the space
provided.

Consultant Fees Number of Cumulative

(in Php) consultants Frequency
6400 – 7599 24 120
5200 – 6399 36 96
4000 – 5199 19 60
2800 – 3999 26 41
1600 – 2799 15 15

WRAP–UP

The percentile rank of a score is the percentage of scores in its

frequency distribution that are equal to or lower than it.
In computing the percentile rank of ungrouped data, the
following formula is used:

𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑥

𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒙 = × 100
𝑁

while in computing the percentile rank of grouped data, the following

formula is used:

100 (𝑃 − 𝐿𝐵) 𝑓𝑃
𝑃𝑃𝑅 = [ ][ + 𝑐𝑓𝑃 ]
𝑁 𝑖
where: PR = percentile rank, the answer will be a percentage
P = raw score or value for which one wants to find a
Percentile rank
LB = lower boundary of the kth percentile class
N = total frequency
cfP = cumulative frequency of all the values below the critical
value
fP = frequency of the percentile class
i = size of class interval
 VALUING
How percentile rank helpful in describing where one stands in relation to
others? Are you agree with the quotation written by Carl David Anderson “The ideal
student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he
was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.”? Why or
why not?
___________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

POSTTEST

Read each item and choose the correct answer. Write your answer before the number.
_____ 1. If you belong to the 95th percentile of your batch for your moving-up, what
can you conclude?
a. you received an average of 95%
b. among the graduates, you rank 95th
c. 95% of your batch mates will not graduate
d. your rank is lower than or equal to 95% of your batch

_____ 2. Rodolfo learned that his score on a recent exam was the 72 nd percentile. If
90 students took the test, approximately how many students received a higher score
than Rodolfo?
a. 25 b. 36 c. 65 d. 72

_____ 3. Gloria scored at 76th percentile on a chemical engineering exam. How does
her score stand in relation to the others?
a. It means that she scored better than 76% of all the test takers
b. It means that 24% scored the same or lower than her
c. She surpassed 24% of all the test takers
d. She got the highest score

_____ 4. Of the 374 third year students in a private school. Shirley got a raw score of
36 in verbal aptitude with a percentile rank of 68. Which of the following is NOT true?

a. Her score is below the 7th decile.

b. She scored above 68% of her classmates.
c. 32% percent of the class got scores of 36 and below.
d. If the passing mark is the 50th percentile, she passed the test.
 1. B
2. A
3. A
4. C
POSTTEST
B. A. 1. 50%
59% of consultants make Php 2. 19%
4,500 or more per day and 3. 81%
16% of consultants make Php 4. 63%
3,000 or less per day. 5. 38%
ACTIVITY 3
1. 11
2. 70%
3. 17%
4. 58%
ACTIVITY 2
Numbers 1, 4,
5, 6, 9 and 10
are TRUE
ACTIVITY 1
ACTIVITIES
1. P15= 26.5
2. P24= 29.7 1. D
3. P54= 34.94 2. A
4. P69= 36.05 3. C
5. P87= 38.77 4. C
6. P96=39.97 RECAP 5. A PRETEST
KEY TO CORRECTION
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COVID-19 pandemic data/Philippines medical cases summary

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