Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VII, Central Visayas
Division of Cebu City

CITY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

SEMI – FINAL EXAMINATION OF MATHEMATICS 8

Name: ___________________________________ Grade & Section: __________________

I. Multiple Choices: Encircle the letter of the correct answer. (20 points)

1. What refers to a measure or estimation of how likely it is that an event will occur?
A. Equation B. Outcome C. Probability D. Statistics

2. Which of the following refers to any procedure that can be infinitely repeated?
A. Event B. Experiment C. Outcome D. Sample Space

3. Which of the following refers to the result of the experiment?

A. Event B. Experiment C. Outcome D. Sample Space

4. Which of the following refers to a set of all possible outcomes of an experiment?

A. Event B. Experiment C. Outcome D. Sample Space

5. Which of the following refers to a subset of a sample space?

A. Event B. Experiment C. Outcome D. Sample Space

6-10. Refer to the problem below and answer the questions that follow.

Berame has 60 marbles on her bag; 14 are yellow marbles, 11 are blue marbles, 17 are red marbles, 8
are green marbles and the rest of the marbles are orange.

6. What is the probability of getting a yellow marble?

60 14
A. 14 B. 46 C. D.
14 60

7. What is the probability of getting a blue marble?

60 11
A. 0 B. 11 C. 11 D. 60

8. What is the probability of getting an orange marble?

8 10 60
A. 0 B. 60 C. 60 D. 8

9. What is the probability of getting a yellow or an orange marble?

11 8 22 24
A. 60 B. 60 C. 60 D. 60

10. What is the probability of getting a green or a blue marble?

8 19 22 24
A. 60 B. 60 C. 60 D. 60

11-20. Consider drawing a card on a standard deck of cards. Find the probability of the following:

11. getting an ace?

1 4 8 13
A. 52 B. 52 C. 52 D. 52

12. getting an eight?

1 4 8 13
A. 52 B. 52 C. 52 D. 52

13. getting a spade?

1 4 8 13
A. 52 B. 52 C. 52 D. 52
14. getting a queen?
1 4 8 13
A. B. C. D.
52 52 52 52

15. getting a diamond?

1 4 8 13
A. 52 B. 52 C. 52 D. 52

16. getting a jack or a king?

2 8 13 26
A. 52 B. 52 C. 52 D. 52

17. getting a heart or a club?

2 8 13 26
A. 52 B. 52 C. 52 D. 52

18. getting a three or a five?

2 8 13 26
A. 52 B. 52 C. 52 D. 52

19. getting not a four?

4 13 39 48
A. 52 B. 52 C. 52 D. 52

20. getting not a spade?

4 13 39 48
A. 52 B. 52 C. 52 D. 52

II. Enumeration: Enumerate all the possible outcomes of the following experiments. (20 points)

1. Tossing a coin. (2 pts.)

2. Tossing two coins at a time. (4 pts)

3. Tossing three coins at a time. (8 pts.)

4. Rolling a die. (6 pts.)

III. Problem-Solving: Read and analyze the problem carefully and answer the questions that follow.
(5 x 2 = 10 points)

Rolling two dice at a time. Find the probability of the following:

a. getting a sum of 7?
b. getting a sum of 5?
c. getting both even numbers?
d. getting both odd numbers?
e. getting a sum of greater than 12?

GODBLESS!!!

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

Prepared by: REYNA JANE C. COTCOT